That holder of office will be able to count on an honest, following and   
the free service of honorable men, whose measures and Judgments prove   
themselves in the light of unbiased opinion to be far from all   
arbitrariness and weighed by the incorruptible scales of Justice.   
Therefore the practice of condemnation and punishment without the chance   
of defence, without sentence, "the undefended damnation of those who are   
already condemned beforehand", as Minister of State Frank called it,   
creates a feeling of being without rights, and a mental  
attitude of fearfulhess and servile cowardice, which in  
the long run must ruin the character of a nation and  
               tear up its feeling of unity.                
 
                                                            
 
 
This is the conviction and the sorrow of  all right-minded German men and   
women. This was openly and courageously expressed by a high official of   
the law in the year 1937 in the -Reichsverwaltungsblatt". He  
wrote:- "The greater the absolute power of an authority, the greater is   
the need for a guarantee of unimpeachable dealings; because errors are felt  
 more heavily, and the  danger of arbitrariness and wrong use is greater.   
If recourse to/Justice (administrative) is excluded, there must in  
every case be a regular way for unbiased control, so that there can be no   
feeling of lack of rights, which  
in any case would be bound in the long run to harm the feelings of   
                      national unity.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
This recourse to/Justice (administrative) is excluded in the penal   
measures of the Gestapo. As none of us know of any means for the unbiased   
control of the measures taken by the Gestapo, of their limitations of   
liberty, their prohibitions of residence, their arrests and their