IV. The implementation of the final solution-problem is supposed to a certain extent to be based on the Nuernberg Laws, in which connection also the solution of the problems presented by the mixed-marriages and the persons of mixed blood is seen to be conditional to an absolutely final clarification of the question.
The chief of the Security Police and the SD first discussed, with reference to a letter from the Chief of the Reich Chancellery, the following points theoretically:
1) Treatment of Persons of Mixed Blood of the first Degree.
Persons of mixed blood of the first degree will, as regards the final solution of the Jewish question, be treated as Jews.
From this treatment the following persons will be exempt:
a) Persons of mixed blood of the first degree married to persons of German blood if their marriage has resulted in children (persons of mixed blood of the second degree). Such persons of mixed blood of the second degree are to be treated essentially as Germans.
b) Persons of mixed blood of the first degree to whom up till now in any sphere of life whatsoever exemption licenses have been issued by the highest Party or State authorities.
Each individual case must be examined, in which process it will still be possible that a decision unfavorable to the persons of mixed blood can be passed.
In any such case only personal essential merit of the person of mixed blood must be deemed a ground justifying the granting of an exemption. (Net merits of the parent or of the partner of German blood.)
Any person of mixed blood of the first degree to whom exemption from the evacuation is granted will be sterilized – in order to eliminate the possibility of offspring and to secure a final solution of the problem presented by the persons of mixed blood. The sterilization will take place on a voluntary basis. But it will be conditional to a permission to stay in the Reich. Following the sterilizations the "person of mixed blood" will be liberated from all restrictive regulations which have so far been imposed upon him.
2) Treatment of Persons of Mixed Blood of the Second Degree.
Persons of mixed blood of the second degree will fundamentally be treated as persons of German blood, with exception of the following cases in which persons of mixed blood of the second degree will be treated as Jews:
a) The person of mixed blood of the second degree is the result of a marriage where both parents are persons of mixed blood.
b) The general appearance of the person of mixed blood of the second degree is racially particularly objectionable so that he already outwardly must be included among the Jews.
c) The person of mixed blood of the second degree has a particularly bad police and political record sufficient to reveal that he feels and behaves like a Jew.
But also in these cases exceptions are not to be made if the person of mixed blood of the second degree is married to a person of German blood.
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