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

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4a - 4 - this is only in the time of war, for after the war - he is convinced - one will not proceed like this. IV. There is no difference at all that perhaps the better-placed circles would be the subject of a milder procedure of the German justice system. Only in some cases it was alleged that it was possible to influence certain officials of the police through gifts or the supply of food. There is no difference between the fact that someone in charge should be given a more severe penalty, because those in debt are themselves in the most responsible position, and the Minister Moravec. V. There is something else about the death penalty for fraud and black trade.Here it is usually granted to the convicted, that they have been punished so severely, but here the charge is raised that only a few are punished and usually only small sinners, while the big smugglers evade the punishment by bribery. On a trip to Central Bohemia, after this area was recently plagued by German justice, a Catholic chaplain also declared that the culprits were given the penalty for the black trade. Only in recent times do some people find themselves who condemn the Germans and want to protect the guilty. It is said, for example, that if one wants to buy one kilogram of pork in the black trade, the farmer cannot cut it out of the living pig. Then he must slaughter the pig black and pay for it on all sides. It is also often pointed out that it is primarily the Germans themselves who are engaged in the black trade or who procure things that they need in black trade.One cites this in terms of various concrete proofs and is of the general view that the relatives of the so-called economic control are well supplied with everything, up to the highest places, to the chairman or deputy chairman of the prize authority, who recently married his daughter and offered everything possible for wine, because he had to have it simply. VI. If one does not speak today about these things or only a little and cautiously, one cannot draw the conclusion from it that the people have become accustomed to the,Härte of German justice, but 44911 - 5 -