English Translation

Draft $+}$ Decree of the Pührer on the Exercise of the Grace in Criminal Matters from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. From .............194. On the Exercises of the Mercy in Criminal Cases from the protectorate of Böhmen and Moravia, as far as it is not about Szehen of the Kilitär- und the //- und Polizeikgerichtsbarkeit, I determine 1. The Reiehsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia exercises the power of grace and protection in all criminal matters which belong to the jurisdiction of the German men and women with their seat in the Protectorate. 2. In criminal cases, which belong to the jurisdiction of the Volksgerichtshof or the Oberlandesgerichte Wroclaw, Dresden and Leitmeritz, the grace and the Niedersehlag is exercised unjustly as follows: a) by the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia in agreement with the Reich Minister of Justice, if the offence is committed in the Protectorate; b) by The Reiehsminister of the Justis in agreement to the Reihs Protector in Böhmen and Moravia if the offense is committed outside of the Protectorates and this offence or the sight of the perpetrator is politically important for the protectorate; )by me, if that is according to Buehst. (a) and (b) between Reiehsprotector and Reiehnsminister der Justis (Minister of Justice) did not intend to intervene. 3. I reserve the right to decide for myself in individual cases. 4. 2e) and 3) lies with the Reichsprotektor, who serves the German Ministry of the Interior for Bohemia and Moravia, and in the furs mentioned under 2b) the Reich Minister of Justice, whether or not. 4. The agreement required after 2a) and 2b is also to be established in cases in which I am in the midst of the Reihsminister