Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 441, sig. 110-4289

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1a - 2 - legal care. Rather, he relies uncritically on information which he receives from Czech judges, lawyers and persons who have not come into contact as defendants, witnesses, lawyers or any other way with the German criminal courts. In his preconceived aversion against the German penal justice, K. the communications and rumors given to him by the Czechs without reservation, full of faith and based solely on it his judgment on the German criminal justice system in Bohemia and Moravia. For example, according to a statement by K. The German judges are far too unelastic and do not seem to be sufficiently independent, especially now in the war under the Eindruek of the strict norms and regulations adopted by the political leadership, they believed that even in all cases they had to resort to the strictest penalties and, in particular, make extensive use of the death penalty. The simplification measures in the context of the current process as well as other peculiarities of the German Code of Criminal Procedure affect K. to the detriment of the defendants. The Czech "is not" the German way of negotiating, the Czech defendant sees himself placed in a world completely unfamiliar to him, which does not take into account his ethnic ties and circumstances and cannot take account of these peculiarities as a result of ignorance. K. It is difficult to see that the German courts have taken over all the essential powers in the fields of criminal justice and that the Czech courts have lost very much in importance. By limiting their powers, the Tehechic courts have also lost much in prestige among the population. K. once again stated that the Czech courts could have been left with responsibility for capital and blackout crimes and for the crimes against the violence crimes regulation. This would have been a lot of political success, because the tsere@ sche public was the 14917 - 3