English Translation

- 16 - 19 B. H i n w e se . 22.) Amendment of the Reich Criminal Code. Important innovations have been introduced by the law amending the RStGB of 4.9.41 (RGBl.I p. 549). Of particular importance is the penalty for the dangerous habitual criminal (§ 20a StGB) and the moral offender (§3 176 to 178 StGB), optional, up to the death penalty if the protection. There is also a new important provision on the abuse of identity documents (§ 28l) which requires two fundamental aspects which must also be taken into account in the proper force of punishment for the crime of the Peea Saes, and which also includes a new definition of the murderer and the manslayer, with a greater emphasis on the characterization and elimination of the previous characteristic of consideration, which has long proved to be a mistake. It should also be stressed that the penal framework of § 33Oa StGB should be increased to 5 years in prison; in this way - in line with a practical need - the possibility of particularly serious intoxications, e.g. killings and administrative crimes, will be adequately punished. In determining whether the perpetrator was in a state of intoxication, which was sufficient to justify the imputation (§ 51 para.l StGB) or was only reduced (§51 para.2 StGB), the judgments sometimes lack the necessary certainty and care. Conclusions only from the information provided by the perpetrator regarding the nature or quantity of the drinks he has enjoyed or such expressions of witnesses are quite uncertain (see 6th Collection Decree No. 24); in particular, the assumption of full drunkenness by no means presupposes a senseless overall behaviour of the perpetrator.Question is regularlynecessary.