English Translation

56 -40 - Reports of experts Dr. Wagner and Dr. Weimann, to which the court has also fully joined, may be obtained from a specialist in gynaecological diseases, e.g. from Dr. Fritsch as a surgeon is not expected to check in detail the findings of the internist for his correctness, but that he is obliged, on the other hand, to give the indications submitted to him with regard to their diagnosis and the conclusions derived therefrom. In addition, general medical training and experience had to be sufficient to be able to properly evaluate the certificates submitted to them. Doberauer, who, as hospital manager, has carefully checked all so-called indications for the interruption of pregnancy for their punctuality according to the then valid opinion and testimonies, which were from the outset the Sas if this came from recognized doctors. In the same way, the accused Dr. Kafka, Dr. All the actions of the defendants were committed in the years 1933 to September l938, at a time when the Czechoslovak penal laws were still in force in the Sudetenland, where the criminal acts were committed, as a result of the then belonging of Sudetensland to Czechoslovakia. However, according to § l8 sentence 2 of the decree on the introduction of German criminal law, the German constitution of the court and other German laws in the Sudeten German territories of 16 January 1939, RGBl. I p. 38 the Criminal Code for the German Reich and the laws introduced at the same time with it also apply to acts committed before 1 March l939, even if the act is punishable under the previous law and because of the act