English Translation

- 28 - 44. On § 1 of the WehrkraftschutzVO. of 25 November 1939. The term "institutions" which serve the German national defence does not only cover the institutions directly needed by the Wehrmacht, such as means of communication, among other things, not only stocks of equipment and equipment items, but also the machines and equipment of the companies which manufacture Wehrmögen. The owner himself may also be the perpetrator. § 1 (1) of the WehrkraftschutzVO. is intended for the duration of the present war to ensure that the basic armament is completely secured. § 2, on the other hand, is exclusively against the so-called sabotage of property, without suffing off the danger of the wehrmacht's defeat. In any case, this fact requires deliberate action. It cannot be assumed that the VO., which in its § 1 also wanted to impose negligent threat to the German Wehrmacht's impunity by intentional and frivolous action with punishment, did not want to impose a penalty protection on the institutions of the armaments industry, whose violation by reckless action could endanger and harm the German military force to a greater extent than dic damage or faulty manufacture of a defence device in the narrow sense (Volksgerichtshof DJ 1942, 1o5). The chief of the Hauptamt 4-Journal Scharfe 4-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-4. for the correctness: MeoTol -ObersturmführER.