Memorandum of Reich Minister of the Interior, Frick, January 1934.
Source: Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham Documents on Nazism, 1919- 1945, (London 1974) p. 462.
German Aryan legislation is necessary for racial and State political reasons. On the other hand, the Reich Government has set itself certain limits that must likewise be observed. German Aryan legislation will be correctly judged at home and abroad if these limits are everywhere heeded. It is especially improper and even objectionable for the principles of paragraph 3 BBG [Civil Service Law of April 1933], the so-called "Aryan paragraph" (which has become the model for numerous other laws and orders), to be extended to other fields to which they by no means apply. This is true particularly of the free economy, as the National Socialist Government has always declared. I therefore repeat my request that infringements of this kind shall be decisively opposed and also that subordinate authorities shall be emphatically instructed that they are to base their measures and decisions only on the valid laws...Any annulment or extension of Reich laws which are valid can be carried out only by the Reich government itself according to the Enabling Law, and not by the bodies which administer these laws. They must, on the contrary, apply these laws so long as they are in force and not contradict them because they appear not to accord completely with National Socialism.
