: Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10 volume III by Various - Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals Nuremberg Germany 1945-1946; War crime trials Germany Nuremberg

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contents of these letters are confidential; the chief of an office shall keep them personally, and let every judge and public prosecutor take notice of them against receipt.

For the publication of the Judges' Letters the collaboration of all the judges and prosecutors is needed. I expect suitable decisions from all branches of justice to be presented to me for publication. When published, neither the judge nor the tribunal pronouncing the sentence will be named.

I am convinced that the Judges' Letters will help essentially to adjust the administration of justice uniformly along National Socialist lines.

DR. THIERACK : MASSMUND

As Chief Secretary of the The Reich Ministry of Justice Ministerial Chancery

PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-298 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 81

THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE JUDGES' LETTERS, 1 OCTOBER 1942

RICHTERBRIEFE Communications of the Reich Minister of Justice, Issue No. 1, 1 October 1942

German Judges

According to ancient Germanic interpretation of the law, the leader of the nation has always been its supreme judge. When the leader therefore invests another person with the authority of a judge, this means that the latter not only derives his judicial power from the leader and is responsible to him, but also that leadership and judgeship have related characters.

The judge is therefore also the guardian of national self-preservation. He is the protector of the values of the nation and helps in the annihilation of the unworthy. He regulates those functions of life, which are considered diseases in the body of the nation. Justices vested with absolute authority are essential for maintaining a true national community.

On account of this task, the judge is the direct assistant of the leadership of the State. This position renders him prominent, but also shows the limits of his tasks which cannot, as a liberal doctrine assumed, lie in the supervision of the leadership of the State. For, if a state does not have an organization which grants the leadership to the best, the administration of justice cannot substitute this selection by its activity.

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