English Translation

tS J.U.Dr. Hanns Kohl Recbtsanwalt Prag, on 23.Jänner 1940. Prague /I, Havlíčkovo nám. 20 Phone 210.35 / Post savings bank account 207,509 Subject: § 19./l/ If a German court considers the jurisdiction of a court of the Protectorate or a court in the Protectorates given to a German courts, it declares its lack of jurisdiction. Such a decision is final. /2/ nets At the request of the German public prosecutor, the public prosecutors and the courts of the Protectorate have to file proceedings pending with them if, according to the German prosecutor, German jurisdiction is given. If the authority of the Protectorate does not consider the German jurisdiction to be given, it may refer the decision of the public prosecutor to the German Oberlandesgericht.ied ,ted § 20.® The Reichsprotektor submits a final judgment. a court of the Protectorate opposition / Article 5, paragraph 5, of the decree of the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich concerning the Protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia of 16 March 1939, Reichsgesetzbl. I p.485/, the German prosecutor may bring charges before a German court. If the German court recognizes the matter as final in law, the decision of the court of the Protectorate shall not take effect. The Reichsprotektor shall determine the details. It is clear from the above that within the meaning of Art. II § 15 c/2/ the jurisdiction of the German court is given and that according to Art. III § 20 the Reichsprotector for Bohemia and Moravia can appeal against the final judgment.