A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1783, sig. 109-5/11

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2.) Proposal. In addition to administrative remedies such as existing food and wage difficulties execution possibilities to the same extent as in sabotage files. IV. Weapons possession. 1.) Present condition. After several cases of murders of German by Czechs, the decree of the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia amending the decree on the possession of arms of l.8.l939 was passed on 6.5.l940, which gives the possibility of a grubbing-up penalty for the intentional unauthorized possession of already usable firearms or ammunition or explosives. However, the cases of the threat to German citizens, in particular the officials of the State Police in the case of official acts, with the gun, life-threatening injuries to secret officers a p d aan sa ta le, in which Czechs carried at least a gun-ready weapon during their arrest, have been horrifyingly heaped up. The vast majority of these cases could not be brought to a verdict, since the accused were also accused of high treason and consequently fell under the cease-fire, and the same applies to weapons camps which were excavated within the framework of the illegal resistance movement. On the other hand, not one of the cases brought before a court of law has yet led to a death sentence. Nor have these judgments, which have so far been subject to the jurisdiction of ordinary German civil courts, been able to free themselves from the consideration of subjective aspects (Appendix 5). As a result, the Czech population has not yet been aware of the harshness of the punishment that rests on unauthorized weapons possession. Thus, no deterrent effect has been achieved in any way. 2.) Proposal. Transfer of jurisdiction for arms offences from the ordinary administrative and regional courts to the special court.