English Translation

SS 49. - ~ legitimization in a Schleichhandelslokal, the fact that he had already available in May 19942 from Schleich-handels- a working capital of 38.000 K for the financing of his cattle buying shops, and the fact, that he did not even need to use food cards for months during his stay in Prague, throw clear light on the extent and intensity of his sliding activity beyond the scope of the criminal offence in question. Above all, it is significant that ty, as a cattle buyer of the Postex, organized its own trade in black-s slaughtered meat to Prague and demanded prices which can only be described as shameful usury prices. For these reasons, the defendants Polivka, Brabec and Ignatz_ Jelinek were also to be punished with the T o d e. On the other hand, for the following reasons, the Court of First Instance did not impose the death penalty requested by the public prosecutor's office against the defendant Stübchen, Fospißil and Kalasse: as has already been stated, the conduct of the defendant Pospissil cannot be regarded as a criminal offence by the special court. It is, however, to be taken into account as a persevering violation of the rules governing the management of the Protectorate in relation to the extent of criminal penalties, as would be the case, for example, in the case of a relevant criminal record, and therefore in the context of a personal assessment can also be used in order to justify the particularly serious case. In this way, however, his overall behaviour weighs quite heavily. He was the * intellectual author and the organizer of the meat black reference acquisition and participated in it substantially up to the 1st of February. Therefore, he is not the person primarily responsible for it. It can also be attributed to only one-quantitatively indeterminable - part of the damage caused by this action of the war economy, because it was dismissed from its posts on 1 February 1994l. In the year 1942 he was present before the 2.7.l942 at the black slaughter of a pig, often engaged in the weighing of the meat, to a small extent participated in the withdrawals of meat from the black-slaughtering and