English Translation

Copy. The German Minister of State Prague, 18 September 1943 for Bohemia and Mühren. II c Gen d 4017 To the President of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General at the German Supreme Court in PraR Brercer Baa rttao in criminal cases from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As the Minister of the Reich and Chief of the Chancellery informed the Supreme Reich Authorities by circular dated 29 August 1943 - RK 99ll D -, the exercise of the Grace S Sos dd sa and Mßhren has been transferred by the Führer to the Lord Reich Protector, insofar as it is not the matters falling within the jurisdiction of military and // and police jurisdiction. The decisions of the Reich Protector on the question of grace will be prepared in the German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia. Accordingly, the grace to be reimbursed by the German judicial authorities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and the Moravian Republic will in future be directed exclusively to the "German Minister of State for Bohemiaand Moravia" in Prague. With the resolution of today, the Lord Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia authorized the subordinate German judicial authorities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mähren to grant graces and to reject applications for graces as graces in the scope existing under the federal laws and administrative regulations. The resolutions of these Gnadan authorities will be assigned in the name of the Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia in the future.