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RARE, INTERESTING LETTER BY REICH JUSTICE MINISTER OTTO THIERACK;
OTTO THIERACK/(1889 – 1946) Reich Minister of Justice under Adolf Hitler from 1942 to 1946 who led the initiative to classify Jews Gypsies Ukrainians Poles and Czechs as “asocial elements” transferring them to Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler to be exterminated through work. Somber content. Thierack” as Reich Minister of Justice 1p. legal folio Berlin Apr. 30 1943 part of the criminal file of Friedrich Schwager sentenced to death for communist activities. Thierack affirms that he has “…decided not to make use of the right to pardon but to let justice run free…” thus dooming Schwager to execution. Embossed nazi eagle at lft. bottom
The Allies arrested Thierack after the end of World War II, but before he could be brought to trial before the court at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, Thierack committed suicide in Sennelager, Paderborn, by poisoning himself.

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