English Translation

- 8 - The so-called "individual officers of the police of the order in these areas are now subject to very @." Special court and the military laws, even if their service area extends both to the old kingdom and to the reclassified territory; the special conditions in the new parts of the empire must then be taken into account throughout the service area of the official concerned. However, military criminal law can only be applied in general with regard to the offences committed after the briefing of the police members of the individual service on the above-mentioned order. Also, the - possibly retrospective - transfer of an individual service to an association of the order police can be the application of military criminal justice, e.g. Article 92 of the MStGB and the laws of war applicable to soldiers are not justified, since the perpetrator can only be sentenced according to the law which at the time the act was committed for him. This point of view must be observed especially for the individual service in the Altreichgebiet, whose members are not subject to the special court jurisdiction as before. On the other hand, all police companies (formerly hundreds) belong to the "force associations of the police" and therefore fall under the jurisdiction of the ij- and police courts. T, The question of the subordination of police administration officers to the special jurisdiction of the and police has been clarified by the circular of the Reichsführers-ll and Chief of the German Police of 21.7.1941 (0-VuR PBG 4261/41), printed in RMBliV. 1941, 1367. It reads as follows: :1 (1) After the decree of 19.5.1940 - 0.Kdo. P I (1a) Nr. 202/40 (not published) the officers of the police administration are only subject to special jurisdiction in so far as they serve with troop associations or command posts superior to them. (a) if the officer is assigned to a pole unit or a pole group in the form of an external operation; the external operation does not conform to the notification of the contract and ends with his hatlmelaure at the Ve.: Bohis - 9 -