STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1975, sig. 109-6/67

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English Translation

For him, guardians of irreproachable life-like decisions, which any legal thinker could approve, were National Socialist right, which the judge had to find and speak through all the strangles of paragraphs. Undoubtedly, the most difficult is to ensure uniform and uniform jurisdiction, i.e. It is not the case that the same misconduct in one entity is not at all punishable by a slight disciplinary penalty and a third with a high prison sentence. To ensure that every evildoer was brought to justice without the person's reputation, he left the responsibility of the courtlords, he has experienced only a few disappointments in this direction. ß-Obergruppenführer Scharfe, on the other hand, did not get tired of acting on the judges, not at several judge meetings, in which he sometimes sought to control the wrong mildness. However, this is not only a question which concerns the - judge alone, but which rather concerns everyone. It is a question of deepening and strengthening the uniformity and accuracy of the sense of justice throughout the 4th and the police, not only through a sustainable education, which must also be a legal education. It must not be overlooked that our jurisdiction is borne by all the members of the 4 and the police who are subject to it: they all have to do with it, that the order of the Reichsführers-77: "I command right. I forbid wrong!" is fulfilled, all of them have to watch that the impunity of our associations is safeguarded. We need to make it clear that the proud satisfaction of being able to sit on our comrades themselves is linked to a great responsibility, and in every judgment, both the leader and the fellow-seater can and should speak a weighty word. Every member of the 4 and the police must therefore know with what standard of duty violations must be measured against a criminal nature. 1⁄2-Obergruppenführer Scharfe has always taken the position that "prevention is better than punishment" and placed a focus of his constant efforts on education and instruction. -Obergruppenführer Scharfe was an enemy of petty punishments, since they are ineffective, not having an effective effect on the wrong-doers, but having no economic influence on the Community because of the lack of deterrent effects. He found compensation for severe punishment in a prison, which is intended to make the offenders as quickly as possible, but through a very hard school, such as to make him a good member of the community or to make it 76