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

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- 7 - change of the court still exclusively responsible. Emergency must be reported to the Heuptamt H court, which will: ensure the proper occupation of the courts with a new il judge. The High Command of the Army, in agreement with each other on this question, expressed itself as follows: "According to § 90 (1) sentence 2 KStvO, a Befenlshaber can, in principle, only entrust one of the judges under his authority with the appeal of a new discerning court. Since in the proceedings against members of the closed associations of the ti or police under the authority of the army a courtlord of the il or police must always be entrusted, in such proceedings a commander can only make use of the power of the second sentence of Section 90 (1) KStvO if another courtlor is subordinated to the ii or police, If this is not the case, but compel completely There is no objection to the fact that the courtmaster entrusts a court of the ii or police which is not subordinate to him, whose name seems to be of concern to the OKí." The courtlords of the # and police therefore have the consequence of such a entrustment dirch the Hehmshtbiefehlshaber. If they are not subordinated to it themselves. The entrustment of a court of war of the Wehrmacht with dor Neuver- hai alung and decision of a criminal case, in which the judgment of the - and police court was abrogated by the higher commander of the military power, is inadmissible. 10.) Individual officers of the police, police medical officers, police administration officers, members of the SHD. I. By decree (O-Kdo II P I (1c) 153/41 III) of 9 October 1941, the Chief of the Order Police ordered: "The provisions applicable to the police associations concerning the li- and police jurisdiction also apply to the individual service in the territory occupied since the beginning of the present war and reclassified to the Reich area, except Gdansk. The police officers deployed in these areas shall be deemed to be subject to the requirements of the Military Prison Code upon notification of this order." 8