English Translation

As of 1 October 1944, it was introduced by Government Decree No. 210/1944 Coll. on the simplification of the administrative procedure of 11 September (481) in a fundamentally one-instance administrative procedure. It was possible to refrain from the local investigation and not to justify the decision. The appeal was fundamentally inadmissible. In exceptional cases, the Office's superior authority could decide on its admissibility (§ 1). The regulation newly allowed that, in order to enforce the performance of multiple bodies, a collective reminder in the form of a written decree could be issued instead of an individual order for performance delivered to the parties' own hands. At the same time, it amended the Government Criminal Order Regulation (137/1944 Coll.) when it allowed the issuing of a criminal order up to 2000 K (formerly 1000 K) and prison up to 5 days (formerly 3 days). so that the proceedings will remain "relaxed until the end of the year in which the war will end" unless it is a matter of fundamental importance, which will be "judged by the Appeals Office itself." Administrative punishment represented a more moderate form of repression and took place everywhere where it was not a "criminal act" as was mostly pointed out in the relevant regulations. However, some regulations included, in addition to administrative punishment, the special facts of the offences, including the amount of the penalty, such as the Government Decree No.250/1943 Coll., on the promotion of integration into work of 27 August (482), which threatened "a jailer up to 10 years, unless a stricter sentence is laid down under general criminal law'. The criminal prosecution of this special offence was made by public prosecution, but only at the request of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Labour, which had to be sent to the Minister for Justice (§ 73). A fine could also be imposed for a minor offence, and its imposition had a favourable effect on 'the perpetrator' that, if the proceedings were introduced, the criminal proceedings had remained "calm' administrative and, if imposed,