Reich Ministry of Justice
The Reich Ministry of Justice was a Ministry of Germany during the Weimar Republic and subsequently the Nazi period. It was the successor of the Reichsjustizamt. It was abolished in 1945, when the Allied forces took over the administration of Germany at the end of World War II.
In 1949, its former functions were taken over in West Germany by the Federal Ministry of Justice and in East Germany by the Ministry of Justice of the GDR ''.