English Translation

54 -4 The indictment accuses the defendant that, during his interpreting activities at the People's Court and at the Neichskriegsgericht in the summer of ly40, he is unauthorized to disclose a secret that has become accessible to him in the exercise of his ante, thereby leading important public interests; offenses according to & 353 b RStGB. The main proceedings have shown the following: At the Reichskriegsgericht, the defendant was an interpreter in a main hearing against a Czech student Juvašek, who was sentenced to death for treason by judgment of 6.3.1940-StPL /HLs/ I1/38/39 StPL /RKA/ Vienna 64/39. The main trial was public, the defendant had only done the ordinary interpreter's oath there, without having been obliged to be particularly silent. In July 1940, the delegation of the Protectorate in Berlin, which the defendant did not know before, met the defendant for this matter. He informed the defendant that he knew that the traitor had been sentenced to death, but he wanted to know whether the sentence had already been executed, since a request for grace by the Protectorate Government and the President of the Protectorates was intended, but had only the purpose if the convicted person was still alive. The defendant then informed the legation council of Shebek that the sentence had not yet been yolle-stretched and that he himself had helped the convicted person to make a request for grace. (- Later, in July or August l940, the Legation Council contacted the defendant and asked him to make a list with the men of protectorates who had recently been abdicated by dea Volksgerichtshof or had already been determined against the date of the main hearing. The defendant pointed out to the legation council that he could have this information more easily from the secret state police. However, von Schebek replied that he was anxious to be rejected from the outset with a request, and that he did not want to expose himself to it. Von Schebe