English Translation

- 2- 21 V Since the Reich has taken over the military protection of the Protectorate and the protection of nationals of the protectorate abroad (Art.1, 6, 7 Decree of 16.III.39), there must be an obligation of the members of the protectionate not to fight against the Reich. This also states a decree of the Protectionate Government of 9.IX.39. It says: "... The government draws the attention of all members of the Protectorate, with the greatest pressure, to the fact that the entry into military formations, the velcher kind always, which form themselves et a abroad, is treason, which is punished with the most severe punishments. The Government of the Protectorate warns against the consequences of all those members of the protectorate who are imprisoned as members of foreign military pormations in the struggle with German troops." According to § 15 of V.0. of 14.IV.39 (RGBl.I p.756), Sections 80 to 93a of the RStGB (High and State Betrayal) in the Protectorates also apply to nationals of the Protektorat. After that, persons who were on 16.III.39 inhabitants of the protectorate territories and thus became nationals of the Protectorate, but who fled and were vaccinated against the Reich, could be punished according to § 91a RStch. According to § 6 para.II z.1 dea V0. of 14.IV.39 (RGBl.I 8.753), they are subject to German jurisdiction. 88720 3.) All prisoners of war who have fled from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and have provided Weffenhilfe against the Reich are subject to the Wehrmacht jurisdiction according to § 3 KStvo. They have committed their act at some time Punki at least shortly before the capture, in German operating bids. In any case, the Reichskriegsgericht (Reichskriegesgericht) is called upon to give judgment. By decree of the Oberkomaandos der Wehrmacht of 6 August 1940 - 14 n 16 WR (I.3), the field war courts in the operating area, which would be exclusively responsible for § 1. Abs. 4 Kstvo, are obliged to ask the president of the Reichakriegsprüfungsgericht to take over the investigation and sentence. II Members of the former Czechoslovak state, who had already emigrated from Czechoslovakia before 16 January 1939, did not easily obtain the status of a protectorate. The decree of 16 January 39 speaks only of inhabitants of Bohemia.