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Report by the Generalkommissar für Verwaltung und Justiz, 5 September 1941, about the result of the registration in the Netherlands.

The head of the German administration in the Netherlands is seemingly proud of the results of the registration. It is noteworthy that he refers to the register as a "tool for the administration" and includes the numbers of all the registered persons.

Even though some German officials don't support the idea, the regulation adopts the widest possible definition and requires anyone who has at least one Jewish grandparent to register.

Letter from the Dutch Secretary of State of the Ministry for the Interior to the mayors of Dutch towns, 22 March 1941 about the registration of "doubtful cases" in care. The document shows that the Dutch officials were asked to register hospital or almshouse inmates who could not follow the registration order themselves, in the event of "a suspicion of Jewish descent".

The First Regulation of the Reich citizenship law (Erste Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz) decrees that a person is to be regarded as Jewish if he or she has three or four Jewish grandparents. If two grandparents are Jewish, certain sub-categories are employed.

Secret letter by the head of the main department of the Generalkommissar für Verwaltung und Justiz to the head of the department of state law of the Reichskommissar, 3 September 1940, discussing a draft of an ordinance for an obligatory registration of the Jews in the Netherlands. The official discusses how to implement the registration and advises not to use wider categories than in Germany - in the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law.

Struggling for a "deserved pension" – Newspaper article from 1962 on Franz Schlegelberger's attempts to receive a state secretary‘s pension as a former civil servant in post-war Germany.

Schlegelberger, the most prominent defendant in the Nuremberg Justice Trial, was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The judges called him a tragic character. They saw him as an intellectual who sold intellect and scholarship to Hitler and was responsible for the "prostitution" of the judicial system under Nazi rule. Schlegelberger was released from the Landsberg prison for war criminals in January 1951 on the grounds of incapacity. He died in 1970.

Report of the British Embassy in Berlin to the British Foreign Ministry, 16 November 1938. The British ambassador describes the pogrom as an act of "persecution of the Jews in Germany on a scale and of a severity unprecedented in modern times".

"The hard struggle for justice" – the defence of Franz Schlegelberger, who was indicted in the course of the Justice case by the US Military Prosecution in Nuremberg in 1947.

The "Völkischer Beobachter", the central organ of the Nazi movement, announces Schlegelberger's honourable discharge and the appointment of the radical Nazi minister Otto Thierack.