“The ruling of the local court, in form and content, borders on embarrassing a German administrative authority to the advantage of Jewry. The judge should have asked himself the question: What is the reaction of the Jew to this 20-page-long ruling, which certifies that he and the 500 other Jews are right and that he won over a German authority, and does not devote one word to the reaction of our own people to this insolent and arrogant conduct of the Jews. Even if the judge was convinced that the food office had arrived at a wrong judgment of the legal position, and if he could not make up his mind to wait with his decision until the question, if necessary, was clarified by the higher authorities, he should have chosen a form for his ruling which, under any circumstances, avoided harming the prestige of the food office and thus putting the Jew expressly in the right toward it.” In the third case, a wealthy young Jew had committed certain violations of the German foreign currency regulations. The district court, although it found certain extenuating circumstances, imposed a heavy fine on the Jew and sentenced him to 2 years’ imprisonment. This decision particularly provoked the Reich Minister of Justice, who said (_NG-298, Pros. Ex. 81_): “The court applies the same criteria for the award of punishment as it would if it were dealing with a German fellow citizen as defendant. This cannot be sanctioned. The Jew is the enemy of the German people, who has plotted, stirred up, and prolonged this war. In doing so, he has brought unspeakable misery upon our people. Not only is he of a different, but he is also of an inferior race. Justice, which must not measure different matters by the same standard, demands that just this racial aspect must be considered in the award of punishment. Here, where a profiteering transaction typical of the defendant as a Jew, and to the disadvantage of the German people, had to be judged, the verdict, in awarding punishment, must take into consideration in the first place that the defendant for years had deprived the German people of considerable assets. * * * This typical Jewish parasitical attitude required the most severe judgment and heaviest punishment.”