Richterbriefe: Confidential circulars from the Reichsministerium der Justiz
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Richterbriefe: Confidential circulars from the Reichsministerium der Justiz
There were originally 11,000 sets, 10,384 of which were sent to the courts and the remainder to various ministries, senior government departments and party offices.
The Richterbriefe are a series of confidential letters addressed to the Nazi judiciary outlining in detail the stance that should be taken and verdicts, which should be given in numerous scenarios. They were a method of further controlling and subordinating the judiciary to the will of the Nazi ideologues. They came about shortly after the appointment of Otto Georg Thierack to the position of Reichsminister der Justiz in August 1942.
Richterbriefe: Confidential circulars from the Reichsministerium der Justiz