English Translation

As regards the case of such offences, the German criminal courts of 8 May 1939 (RGBl. I, p. 903) are held before the Wehrmacht courts. The following examples may serve as an explanation: a) A member of the government force steals a comrade: Jurisdiction of the ordinary protectorate courts. b) A representative of the governmental force commits a radio crime, insults the German Reich, commits violent crimes, acts as a popular pester Schleichhandel: Judicial competence of the regular German courts. c) A member of the government troupe takes over the property of the German Wehrmacht, insults a German officer's jurisdiction of the Wehrmascht courts, The intention of General Friderici is to extend the jurisdiction of Wehrmarcht courts - while maintaining the competence of the Protectorate courts (!) to the extent to which they have been so far - in order to completely deprive the ordinary German criminal courts of the suc- cess of members of the governmental troop, so that - in future - in the case of a) the proteltorate courts will remain competent, T s the Wehnmaschtgerichte would be justified. This would create special rights for the government force in the field of civil law. It seems to me that in future the members of the government force would be subject to only two jurisdictions (i.e. the protectorate justice and the German military justice), while at the present time the jurisdiction of the German ordinary courts, as for all the protectorates, is also given, depending on the situation of the case. However, this external simplification would not be offset by the newly created confusion, since in the future the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht courts vis-à-vis members of the Protectorate would be different.