Chapter LXXVI: Section 3

This order shall become effective one week after its publication.

Berlin, July 15, 1942.

The Reich Minister of the Interior
By deputy: Dr. Stuckart.

The Chief of the Supreme Command
of the Armed Forces
Keitel.

The Reich Minister of Justice
Dr. Schlegelberger (in charge)

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1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1539

Fuehrer Decree Establishing a Ministerial Council For Reich Defense, 30
August 1939

For the period of the present foreign political tension, I decree the following for the uniform leadership of administration and economy:

I

(1) A Ministerial Council for Reich Defense shall be established as a standing committee out of the Reich Defense Council.

(2) The standing members of the Ministerial Council for Reich Defense shall include: General Field Marshall Goering as chairman, Fuehrer’s Deputy, Commissioner General for Reich Administration, Commissioner General for the Economy, Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellory, Chief of the High Command for the Armed Forces.

(3) The chairman may draw on other members of the Reich Defense Council including further personalities for advice.

II

The Ministerial Council for Reich Defense may issue decrees with statutory effect, in so far as I have not provided for the passing of a law by the Reich Government or the Reichstag.

III

The authority of General Field Marshall Goering under the Decree for the Administration of the Four-Year Plan of October 13, 1936 (RGBl I, 887) including his power to issue instructions shall remain unaffected.

IV

The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellory shall supervise the business of the Ministerial Council for Reich Defense.

V

I shall determine the period for the expiration date of this decree.

Berlin, 30 August 1939.

The Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler

General Field Marshall
Goering

The Reichs Minister and Chief of the Reichs
Chancellory
Dr. Lammers

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1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 225

Law against overcrowding of German Schools and Higher Institutions of
25 April 1933

The Reich Government has enacted the following law that is promulgated herewith:

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Article 3

In those special schools and faculties where the number of pupils and students is greatly disproportionate to professional demand, the number of registered students must be reduced during the school year 1933 as far as it is, without excessive rigor, consistent with a proper proportion.

Article 4

The number of non-Aryan Germans, within the meaning of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, of 7 April 1933 (RGBl I, p 175), who may be admitted to schools, colleges and universities, must not exceed a number proportionate to the Aryan students in each school, college or university compared to the percentage of non-Aryans within the entire German population. This proportion is fixed uniformly for the whole Reich.

If, in accordance with Article 3, the number of pupils and students is to be reduced, there is likewise a proper proportion to be established between the total number of students and the number of non-Aryans. In doing so a somewhat higher proportion may be fixed.

Clauses 1 and 2 do not apply in the case of non-Aryans, whose fathers have fought at the front during the World War for Germany or her allies, or to children whose parents were married before the enactment of this law, if the father or mother or two of the grandparents are of Aryan origin. The number of these students is not to be included when calculating the quota of non-Aryans.

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Article 7

The decree is valid upon promulgation.

Berlin, 25 April 1933

The Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler

The Reich Minister of the Interior
Frick

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1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 104

Decree Establishing The Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and
Propaganda of 13 March 1933

A Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda is herewith established for the purpose of enlightening and propagandizing the population with regard to the policies of the Reich Cabinet and the national reconstruction of the German fatherland.

The chief of this agency has the title “Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.”

The Reichschancellor defines in detail the duties of the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

In agreement with the other Reich Ministers concerned, he defines the duties which are transferred from their jurisdiction to that of the new Ministry. This will be done even in cases where the jurisdiction of the Ministries concerned is affected fundamentally.

Berlin, March 13, 1933
The Reich President VON HINDENBURG
The Reich Chancellor ADOLF HITLER

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1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 449

Decree Concerning the Duties of the Reich Ministry for Public
Enlightenment and Propaganda of 30 June 1933

Based upon the order of the Reich President of 13 March 1933 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, Page 104), I decree in agreement with the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Reich Minister of the Interior, the Reich Minister of Economics, the Reich Minister of Nutrition and Agriculture, the Reich Post Minister, the Reich Minister of Transportation, and the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, as follows:

The Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda has jurisdiction over the whole field of spiritual indoctrination of the nation, of propagandizing the State, of cultural and economic propaganda, of enlightenment of the public at home and abroad; furthermore, he is in charge of the administration of all institutions serving these purposes.

Therefore, the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda takes over the following jurisdictions:

1. From the jurisdiction of the Foreign Office:

News services and enlightenment in foreign countries; art; art
exhibitions; moving pictures and sport abroad.

2. From the jurisdiction of the Reich Ministry of the Interior:

General domestic enlightenment;

Academy of Politics;

Establishment and celebration of national holidays and of state
celebrations in conjunction with the Reich Minister of Interior;

Press, (including the Institute for Journalism);

Radio;

National anthem;

German Library in Leipzig;

Art (however, with the exclusion of: the Institute for the History
of Art in Florence; of protection of rights in literature and
art; the catalogue of works of art of national value;
German-Austrian agreement on export of art; protection of art
and monuments; protection and care of landscape and natural
monuments; national parks, maintenance of buildings of
historical importance; for the Science of Folkdom; Reich Honor
Monument).

Music, including the Philharmonic Orchestra;

Theater;

Moving Pictures;

Campaign against dirty and obscene literature.

3. From the jurisdiction of the Reich Minister of Economics and of the Reich Ministry for Nutrition and Agriculture; Propaganda in the field of business, exhibitions, fairs, and commercial publicity.

4. From the jurisdiction of the Reich Post Ministry and of the Reich Ministry of Transportation:

Propaganda for tourism.

Furthermore, there are transferred from the Reich Post Ministry all radio matters with the exclusion of the technical administration; the administration of the buildings of the Reich Radio Corporation and the Radio Corporation is not included in that exception. However, the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda must participate in the technical administration to the extent necessary for the execution of his own duties, especially in fixing the conditions for renting radio installations and the regulation of fees.

The representation of the Reich in the Reich Radio Corporation and the Radio Corporation is entirely transferred to the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

In the areas designated, the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda has the predominant jurisdiction, including legislation. The general regulations are valid so far as the other Ministers of the Reich have to participate.

Berlin, 30 June 1933

The Reich Chancellor
ADOLF HITLER

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1938 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 112

Decree Concerning the Establishment of a Secret Cabinet Council dated 4
Feb. 1938

To advise me in conducting the foreign policy I am setting up a secret cabinet council.

As president of the secret cabinet council, I nominate:
Reichsminister Freiherr von Neurath

As members of the secret cabinet council I nominate: Reichsminister
of the Exterior Joachim von Ribbentrop

Prussian Prime Minister, Reichsminister of the Air, Supreme Commander
of the Air Forces, General Field Marshall Hermann Goering

The Fuehrer’s Deputy, Reichsminister Rudolf Hess

Reichsminister for the enlightenment of the people and of propaganda,
Dr. Joseph Goebbels

Reichsminister and Chief of the Reichs Chancellory, Dr. Hans-Heinrich
Lammers

The Supreme Commander of the Army, General Walther von Brauchitsch

The Supreme Commander of the Navy, Grand Admiral Dr. (honorary) Erich
Raeder

The Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, Lt. Gen.
Wilhelm Keitel

The current affairs of the secret cabinet council are handled by the Reichsminister and Chief of the Reichs Chancellery.

Berlin, 4 February 1938

The Fuehrer and Reichs Chancellor
Adolf Hitler

The Reichsminister and Chief of
the Reichs Chancellery
Dr. Lammers

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1942 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 419

Decree concerning the conditions of Employment of Eastern Workers of 30
June 1942

The Ministerial Council for Defense of the Reich orders with force of law:

Chapter I

_Definition of Eastern Worker_

Article 1

Eastern workers are those laborers of non-German national origin who inhabited the Reich Commissariat for the Ukraine, the General Commissariat for White Russia, or territories bordering on these territories to the east or on the former free states of Lithuania and Estonia, and who were brought into the German Reich, including the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and employed there after the occupation by the German armed forces.