Control Council Directive No. 38 (October 12, 1946)

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II. Activists are in particular the following persons, insofar as they are not major offenders:
1. Anyone who substantially contributed to the establishment, consolidation or maintenance of the national socialist tyranny, by word or deed, especially publicly through speeches or writings or through voluntary donations out of his own or another’s property or through using his personal reputation or his position of power in political, economic or cultural life;
2. Anyone who, through national socialistic teachings or education, poisoned the spirit and soul of the youth;
3. Anyone who, in order to strengthen the national socialistic tyranny, undermined family and marital life disregarding recognised moral principles;
4. Anyone who in the service of national socialism unlawfully interfered in the administration of justice or abused politically his office as judge or public prosecutor;
5. Anyone who in the service of national socialism agitated with incitement or violence against churches, religious communities or ideological associations;
6. Anyone who in the service of national socialism ridiculed, damaged or destroyed values of art or science;
7. Anyone who took a leading or active part in destroying trade unions, suppressing labor, and misappropriating trade union property;
8. Anyone who, as a provocateur, agent or informer, caused or attempted to cause, institution of a proceeding to the detriment of others because of their race, religion or political opposition to national socialism or because of violation of national socialist rules;
9. Anyone who exploited his position or power under the national socialistic tyranny to commit offences, in particular, exertions, embezzlements and frauds;
10. Anyone who by word or deed took an attitude of hatred towards opponents of the NSDAP in Germany or abroad, towards Prisoners of War, the population of formerly occupied territories, foreign civilian workers, prisoners or like persons;
11. Anyone who favored transfer to service at the front because of opposition to national socialism.

III. An activist shall also be anyone who, after 8 May 1945, has endangered or is likely to endanger the peace of the German people or of the world, through advocating national socialism or militarism or inventing or disseminating malicious rumors.