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...The
legal regulations made by the Law for the protection of retail
trade are completed for the time being. This means that the
Reich Government will refrain from taking further measures
such as have been demanded from various sides....
In
this connection I see myself obliged...to point out once more
that the absolutely essential further restoration of calm to
the entire economy and its unified, organic reconstruction can
only be achieved if those who have been appointed by the Reich
Government to carry out its orders avoid any measure which
could endanger the feeling of confidence in the Law as the
result of their failure to observe existing laws and thereby
introduce renewed uncertainty into the economy....
I
therefore request that the lower-echelon offices and city
magistrates in particular be emphatically instructed that such
measures are to be absolutely avoided, and cancelled when
necessary....
The
groups directly interested in additional measures, and who
have claimed up to now that their more far-reaching demands
are in accordance with the economic policy of the Reich
Government, are to be emphatically notified that the decision
of the Reich Government in this respect has now been made
unmistakably clear, as I have stated before. The Reich
Government cannot permit itself to be deprived of freedom of
action by the creation of established facts, as the result of
unauthorized intervention, directly or indirectly, in its
decisions on the legal and economic position of the
enterprises concerned. It will deal with such lack of
discipline as offenses against the Fuehrer Principle and as
sabotage of economic reconstruction....
In
the interest of maintaining the enterprises in question as
places of work of very large numbers of German employees and
[blue-collar] workers, and as providers of employment for much
larger numbers still, boycotts and similar measures are to be
avoided where they prevent business relations with suppliers
or customers (i.e., the production of black or white lists,
failure to include the enterprises in supply registers,
refusal to accept advertisements, discouraging of customers by
the posting of observers, distribution of leaflets, posters,
threats, photographing of customers or interfering with them
in other ways, etc.)....
Actions
of this type have already been emphatically forbidden to
members, officers and organizations of the NSDAP and its
related bodies, by order of the Fuehrers Deputy, Rudolf Hoess,
of July 8, 1933, as well as by a subsequent order of August 8,
1933.
I
therefore request that most decisive action be taken to
prevent intervention of this type in future, and that
organizations and associations rescind without delay any
contrary directions and decisions, and that lower-echelon
offices should receive instructions in accordance with this
memorandum as soon as possible.
C.V.-Zeitung,
No. 39, October 11, 1933.
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