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Eastern Europe: administration of, 190–98, 275, 694–98
n;
administrative forms in, 275; colonization plans for, 187–90, 692–93
n;
denationalization policy in, 191–94.
See also
Annexed Eastern Territories; General Government; Occupied Eastern Territories
Eastern Europeans: Nazi view of, 61–64, 73, 624–25
n;
orphans, Germanization of, 388–89, 863
n;
working in Reich, 149–54, 179–83 (
see also
“alien” workers in Altreich; “eastern workers”)
“eastern Jews”
(Ostjuden)
, 109, 284, 681
n
“eastern workers”: jurisdiction over, 372; labor system, 150, 152, 668
n;
restrictions for, 182, 183, 249, 690
n
, 711
n
, 855
n
, 856
n
East Prussia, police courts-martial in, 458–59
Economic Council (General Government), 791
n
economic crimes, 443, 510.
See also
theft
economic policy: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 226–30; in General Government, 291–97, 790–91
n
, 792
n;
subjugation to political goals, 540–41
educational policy: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 224–25, 725–27
n;
in General Government, 290, 786–88
n;
Hitler on, 589
n
, 698
n
, 726
n;
for “non-Germans” in Altreich, 156, 670–71
n;
for occupied Eastern Europe, 191, 696
n
“effect of assimilation,” 408, 412–13, 470, 476–77, 478, 480, 485, 525, 912
n
Einsatzgruppen
(special operations squads), extermination campaigns of, 868
n
Eliás case, 851
n
emergency laws: conversion into common law, 79, 80; as prerogative
vs
. normative laws, 628–29
n
emergency powers, 26–27
emigration: loss of citizenship upon, 109, 110, 118, 119–20; loss of property upon, 160, 673
n;
tax on, 166, 678
n
Emmerich, Walter, 757
n
employees: German Jewish, 142–49, 393–94, 664
n
, 665
n;
Polish, in Annexed Eastern Territories, 231, 733
n
employment benefits: for “alien” workers in Altreich, 151–52, 667
n;
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 232–34, 723
n
, 735
n;
in General Government, 302, 303, 306; for Jews in Altreich, 148, 149, 394, 395
employment contracts, 462, 856
n
, 859
n
, 921
n
Enabling Act (March 24, 1933), 588
n
, 599
n
Engel, Dr. A., 605
n
equality/equity: in taxation, 165–66, 678
n;
universal, Nazi rejection of, 43–51, 616
n
, 617
n; völkisch
, 43–49
equivalent Jews
(Geltungsjuden)
, 649–50
n
Erzeugungsschlacht
, 517
escape, attempted, 500, 842
n
espionage, 337
estate execution/administration process, discrimination against Jews in, 400–401
“ethnic struggle/warfare”
(Volkstumskampf):
in Annexed Eastern Territories, 195, 403–4, 437–38, 450, 454, 476–77, 537, 538; in General Government, 511, 525
Eugenics Law.
See
Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases
Europe: under German administration, map of, 580; Nazi plans for, 187–90, 691
n
, 692–93
n
“euthanasia” program, 98, 100–101
Eutin, 619
n
“evacuation thefts,” 443
executioners, 440
executions: blacklist, 450, 453; communication of to family, 900
n;
death certificates for, 900
n;
mass, 451, 517–19, 901
n
, 926
n;
by police, illegal, 450–53, 457–58, 517–19, 901
n;
poster showing, 575; public, 440, 468, 517–18, 888–89
n
, 901
n;
as rectification of rulings, 365, 458, 840
n
, 842
n;
secret gravesites for, 900
n;
speed of, 440, 459, 903–4
n;
without criminal trial, 351–52, 451, 458, 500, 842
n
, 900
n
, 927
n
exhibitionism, 831
n
“expiatory tax,” 158
exploitation, as administrative aim, 190–91, 194, 261, 271–72, 291–92
extermination: administrative objections to, 540–41; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 419, 448; “euthanasia” program, 100–101; ideological justification for, 621
n;
of infirm German settlers, plan for, 263, 758
n;
in Occupied Eastern Territories, 539; policies preparing way for, 56, 71, 534–35; special authorities’ responsibility for, 541, 544–45;
völkisch
inequality and, 71.
See also
Final Solution
extermination camps: deportation to, 506, 520, 814–15
n;
“euthanasia” program and, 101; as foreign terrain, 120; labor camps attached to, 304, 804
n. See also
concentration camps
“extraordinary circumstances due to war,” concept of, 417, 875
n
extraordinary powers, 541–45.
See also
emergency powers; special authorities
extraterritoriality: of extermination camps, 120; and penal law, 330
families: collective responsibility of, 109–10; German-Polish, 212–13, 230–31, 741
n
family law: in Altreich, 183, 383–89; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 212–13, 230–31, 478–80.
See also
marriage law
Federal Constitutional Court, 8
felonies, 426
film industry, 154, 155–56, 663
n
Final Solution: administrative/legal phases leading to, 80–81, 285–86; classification of Jews for, 114; “euthanasia” program as prelude to, 101; exclusion from medical treatment as prelude to, 311–12; ghettoization as prelude to, 253–54, 285–86, 780
n;
ideological justification for, 621
n;
language anticipating, 59; loss of legal status as prelude to, 56, 120, 121; principle of special law and, 534–35; time of planning for, 629–30
n
firearms, illegal possession of, 418, 451, 453, 514, 880
n
, 916
n
First Decree on Residence Restrictions in the General Government (Sept. 13, 1940), 313
fiscal law, 165–68
Fischer, Ludwig, 510, 513, 767
n
, 772
n
flogging, 364, 851
n
, 893–94
n
foe, theory of the, 51–52, 101
food supply policy: for “alien” workers in Reich, 153–54; in Annexed Eastern Territories, 257–59, 753–56
n;
in General Government, 272–73, 306, 757
n
, 775
n
, 776
n
, 806–7
n;
for Jews in Altreich, 164, 677
n
food theft, 442
forced labor: of “alien” workers in Reich, 149–54, 179, 666
n
, 667
n
, 668
n;
in General Government, 285, 302–6, 800–804
n
, 818
n;
of Germans in General Government, 302, 303, 801
n;
in ghettos, 818
n;
of Jews in Altreich, 142–43, 148, 665
n;
of Jews in General Government, 285, 303–4, 803–4
n
, 818
n;
of Poles from Annexed Eastern Territories, 235, 736
n;
of Poles in General Government, 302–3, 305–6; of prisoners of war, 667
n
Forced Labor Decree.
See
Decree on Forced Labor for Jews
foreign broadcasts, listening to, 414, 880
n
, 892
n
foreigners in Altreich: of “alien races,” expulsion of, 171, 681
n;
legal definition of, 654
n;
legal status of, 627
n;
marriage prohibitions for, 104–5; “of German extraction,” legal status of, 122–23; workers (
see
“alien” workers in Altreich)
foreign income, failure to declare, 335
Foreign Police Decree (Aug. 22, 1938), 178
forgery, of ration cards, 442
formulated (legal) systems, 499
Forster, Albert, 440
foster children, 387
Fraenkel, Ernst, 27
Frank, Hans (governor general of General Government), 132, 270, 276, 321, 326, 610
n
, 851
n;
on administrative aims, 261, 756
n
, 781
n;
on administrative personnel, 278, 769
n
, 772
n
, 774
n;
and administrative structure, 278, 288, 488–89; on Civil Service, 297; criticism of, 282, 283, 775–76
n
, 777
n;
and cultural policy, 783
n
, 784
n
, 785–86
n;
on economic policy, 790–91
n;
on General Government as colony, 262, 263, 488–89, 757
n;
on Germanization policy, 758–59
n;
on health professionals, 813
n;
on Jewish real estate, 296; on justice, 591
n;
and labor policy, 302, 306, 805
n;
as law editor, 583
n;
on lower-level administrators, 278, 769
n;
and NSDAP, 70, 278, 509, 783
n;
on Poland, 694
n;
on Poles, 766
n
, 786
n;
and police, 495, 513, 516, 519, 811
n;
on police executions, 821
n;
prerogative of mercy, 494; on status of General Government, 267, 268, 269, 763
n;
on timing for racial policies, 931
n
Frankfurt on Main, 335–36, 398, 602
n
, 655–56
n
fraud, identity card, 833
n
Frauendorfer, Max, 805
n
freedom of movement, restrictions on: in Annexed Eastern Territories, 249–55, 466, 745–48
n;
in General Government, 312–17, 816
n
, 818
n
, 819
n;
for German Jews, 170–73, 681
n
, 682
n
“free judge,” 22
“free procedural organization,” principle of, 464–65
Free State of Danzig, 737
n
Freisler, Roland, 38, 61, 604
n
, 606
n
, 633
n;
and General Government, 266, 504; on ideal jurists, 405, 593
n
, 596
n;
and penal law in Altreich, 326, 344, 362, 823
n
, 827
n
, 831
n;
and penal law in Annexed Eastern Territories, 423, 439; purge of Jewish notaries, 129
Freyer, Hans, 44
Frick, Wilhelm, 86
friend-foe theory, 51–52, 101
“frontline soldiers”: definition of, 90, 636
n;
exemptions for, 86, 90, 91, 137, 138, 139, 222, 661
n
fuel rations, 258
Führer: absolute authority of (
see
“Führer principle”); civil servant’s duty of loyalty to, 84, 631
n
, 640
n
Führer Decree on the Division and Administration of the Eastern Territories (Oct. 8, 1939), 412, 414, 470, 907
n
Führerinformationen
, 338, 348–49, 362–63, 445, 849
n
, 850
n
Führer powers, 18, 592
n
“Führer principle, ” 10–24, 841
n;
absolute authority in, 13–14, 15, 35, 588
n
, 589–90
n;
and administration, 4–5, 14–24; and Civil Service, 84; in
Gauräte dispute
, 202; and judicial system, 15–17, 18–24; and judiciary, 16, 21–24, 591
n;
and law, 14–17, 18–19; and legal system, 14–17; in Nazi law, 11, 588
n;
roots of, 11–13; and state organization, 17–18; and Unified Administration, 768
n;
and
Volksgemeinschaft
, 35–36; and will of the Führer, 14, 590
n
funerals, ban on, 223, 724
n

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