English Translation

he Reichsprotektor 23, June 1941 Prague, in Bohemia and Mühren I 9 d 4156 2. To the Wehrmacht authorized representative at the Reichspretector in Bohemia, and Moravia, in XIX. Place of the Wermacht 5. Subject: Jurisdiction of the courts of law against members of the government force. To the letter of 16 June 1941 presented by Mr. Oberkriegagerichtsret Freiherrn von Doernberg on 14 June 1941. June 1941 - III/Az. 3a - . The jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht courts in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is finally governed by decree of 8 May 1939 (RGBl. I p. 903) and by decree from 26 August 1939 (voBlßProt. 5. 84). Therefore, an extension of this competence could only take place by a decree of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Interior, which I am in agreement with. In the present case, the third decree of the Führer and Reichskanzler on a temporary restriction of the legislation of the 16th General Court of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany on the application of a temporary limitation of the provisions of the law of the Republic of Austria, which you have notified to extend the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht courts to prosecute acts of the members of the government force under equal elimination of the competence of the ordinary German judicial authorities. May 1941 - transmitted by circular from the Minister of the Reich and Chief of the Chancellery to the Supreme Reich Authorities of 19th Nai 194l - Rk.