English Translation

All this is explained by the fact that he felt that he was in solidarity with the board decisions, that the managing directors wanted to strengthen with his advice in their decisions and that he wanted to assume the real responsibility for the implementation of the measures decided upon as department head. In this case, it is irrelevant in criminal law that the acts of execution themselves constitute acts of aid. (Vgl-RSTGB.54 p.166 and 247; 56 p.329: 63 p.101 and 67 p.392). In the summer of 1994 the Fleis chschwarz reference campaign began without taking into account the overall success, -in the interest of business turnover and the supply of the main customers as free as possible for the duration of the war to pay attention to the rationing regulations, to ensure themselves preferably by continuing black reference from the holdings of the Postex and to dissipate existing or future meat mancos dnrch trading transactions. In the context of this overall plan, which was characterised as uniformly marked by the ongoing brand-free acceptance of customers and the continuing private withdrawals for the supply of eggs, the various arrangements for covering the meat shortages were only adapted to the respective possibilities of the trade in sheepmeat and therefore of an inde pendent nature.Three individual actions were actually and legally taken in a similar manner and were directed uniformly against the same legal property, namely against the proper functioning of the war economy.According to § 2 a STGB, therefore, the criminality of their act is determined according to the law in force at the time of the completion of the act, i.e. according to Ewvo, who entered into force on 19.4.1994l. The individual acts before this date can be safely included in the continuation context, because they were already punishable before the 19.4.l94l, although according to the provision of § 9 of the Ordinance on the night of 18.9.1939 (No. 206 Collection of Laws and Regulations).