Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 425, sig. 110-4/272

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7/ Copy. Certified photocopy ErlaB of the Führer Bnqnn of the Right of Grace by the Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia. From January 25, 1944. - The Reich Protector in Böhmen and Moravia according to my order of the 20th century. On August 1, 1943, in criminal cases which are not heard on the jurisdiction of the military and the // and police jurisdictions, the exercise of the right of grace and repression is carried out in accordance with the following provisions. 1. The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia exercises unrighteous grace and repression in all criminal matters for which a German court with its seat in the Protectorate is competent in the first instance. 2. In criminal matters for which, in the exercise of German jurisdiction in the Protectorate, the Reichsgericht in the first instance, the Volksgerichtshof or, in its place, an Oberlandesgericht is responsible, the right of grace and repression is exercised by the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia in agreement with the Reich Minister of Justice. If this agreement is not to be reached, my decision is to be made by the Reichsminister and head of the Reich Chancellery. 3±