Carl Schmitt: RFSS SD Hauptamt File

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This document is a dossier produced by the Sicherheitsdienst der Reichsführung SS, 1936-1937, the result of an extensive investigation into Carl Schmitt, constitutional theorist of the Weimar Republic and ‘Crown Jurist' of the Nazi era. It contains correspondence and reports from former colleagues of Schmitt and others, denouncing his alleged anti-nazi, pro-Jewish background. Also included is correspondence between the editor of Das Schwarze Korps, and officials within the RFSS SD, in which an anonymous article first appeared (c1936), questioning Schmitt's Nazi credentials. File of correspondence and reports on Carl Schmitt, produced by the Sicherheitsdienst des RFSS SD Hauptamt, PA 651C, Scmitt, Karl Dr. Prof., AKZ 4062/68, Fa 503