STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1825, sig. 109-5/53

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7.)Pre-publication of judgments in the press: 19 The Reichsführer has again fundamentally opposed each other on the occasion of an individual case. Publication of judgments of the li- and police courts in the daily press, and for those cases in which, for particularly serious reasons, for example in order to counter false rumours in the population, a publication, e.g. the execution of a death sentence, is considered to be necessary, the decision itself is reserved. 8. Penal decrees. The chief of the High Command of the Wahrmscht has announced the following order for the issuing of criminal decrees (§ 48 a KStvo): On the basis of § 118 of the War Penal Procedures Code, I shall make 1. By way of derogation from § 48a of the War Criminal Procedures, until further imprisonment, all other courtlords shall be established in criminal proceedings against civilians who are non-German nationals by order of up to six months. This order shall be observed by the ij- und Polizeigerichten. 9.) Relationship to the Wehrmacht remandability. If a court feldurcil of the court is subordinated to a division of the Weckermacht of the Waffen-t; if the competent higher court guard of the wehrmaat abrogates it, it may happen that the court has been used up in terms of personnel for the renegotiation of the case. In this case, the re-decision of the matter may not take place. a court of war of the Wehrmacht; rather, first of all, it is necessary to try to appoint a "judge of neighbouring units" to the required personnel - 7 -