English Translation

-2 Crimes are also inappropriate. It must lead to difficulties and delays in the numerous criminal acts committed both in the Protectorate and in the rest of the Reich. As far as essential concerns of the Protectorates are concerned, I am prepared to reach agreement with the Imperial Protector. In the interests of simplifying and speeding up the business process, it would be desirable for the Reichsprotektor to be able to explain his agreement in general for certain resolutions of grace at least for the duration of the war. The details of this can be left to the direct negotiations of the parties concerned. After this I propose the following regulation: 1) Until further notice, the Reichsprotektor exercises the right of grace and settlement in all criminal matters of the German courts in the Protectorate alone. 2) In criminal cases of the Volksgerichtshof and the Oberlandesgerichte in Wroclaw, Dresden and Leitmeritz, the Reich Minister of Justice exercises the right of grace and repression in agreement with the Reich Protector if: (a) the offence is committed in the Protectorate or (b) the criminal offence or the misconduct of the perpetrator has fundamental political significance for the Protectorates. The necessary agreement is also established in the cases in which, according to the order of the Führer notified in the letter of the Reich Minister and Chief of the Chancellery of 17 August 19943 - Rk. 9541 E - the opinion of other departments on the question of grace is not to be sought. If the agreement is not to be reached, then the Reichsmi- nister of Justice will bring about the decision of the Führer. Heil Hitler! Her very devoted gez. Thierack