TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1388-A-PS

Date: Date Unknown

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-1388-A

HLSL Item No.: Unknown

1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 479 Law Against the New Establishment of Parties July 14, 1933
The German Government has enacted the following law, which is herewith promulgated:
Art. 1
The National Socialist German Worker's Party [Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei] constitutes the only political party in Germany.
Art. 2
Whoever undertakes to maintain the organizational structure of another political party or to form a new political party will be punished with penal servitude up to three years or with imprisonment of from six months to three years, if the deed is not subject to a greater penalty according to other regulations.
Berlin, den 14 Juli, 1933.
The Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
The Reich Minister of the Interior
Frick
The Reich Minister of Justice
Dr. Guertner.
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