Document No. 2078-PS

AUTHOR — International Military Tribunal

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV

Document No. 2078-PS

TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2078-PS

1934 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 365

Decree concerning the establishment of the Reichs Ministry of Science, Education, and Popular Culture of 1 May 1934

(1) For the entire system of education, training, and instruction of the Reich, as well as for the tasks of science, a Reich Ministry for Science, education, and popular culture is established.

(2) The director of this office bears the title "Reich Minister for Science, Education and Popular Culture."

(3) The Chancellor of the Reich will determine the various duties of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education, and Popular Culture. He will also determine the duties which are transferred from the sphere of activity of the Reich Ministries affected to the new Ministry and also even if the sphere of activity of the ministries concerned is fundamentally affected hereby.

Berlin, 1 May 1934

The President of the Reich

von Hindenburg

The Chancellor of the Reich

Adolf Hitler

Source:<br>Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV<br>Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality<br>Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946