English Translation

185 The foundation for the establishment of German judiciary in the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia became Article 2, paragraph 1 of Hitler's decree of 16 March 1939 on the establishment the protectorate. According to him, German nationals were subject to German jurisdiction. There were three decrees of the Reich Minister of Justice and the Imperial Minister of the Interior from 14 April 1939, which established a three-stage system of proper German courts. (516) This system was composed of: the German Supreme Court, located in Prague (Deutsche Oberlandesgericht), the German Land Courts, based in Prague and in Brno (Deutsch Landesgerichte) and a network of German Official Courts (Doutsche Amtsgerichte). Budějovice, Brno, German (now Havlíčkov) Brod, Jičín, Hodonín, Jihlava, Ostrava, Olomouc, Pardubice, Pilsen, Prague and Strakonice. A German state prosecutor was established in each German court. The regulation introduced the principle that German nationals and other persons were subject to the protectionist courts. The persons of non-German nationality were subject to German courts in the Protectorate for selected crimes under German criminal law to protect the interests of the empire and its citizens, and in the event that a German national brought a private action against them. In connection with the administrative reform and delegation of autonomous bodies, the agenda "from the Order of the Empire" (im Auffrage des Reichs) was introduced by the Reich by the Decree of the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs of 3 June 1941 (517) by the Imperial Criminal Code punishing "crimes and misdeeds in the Office" and for Czech employees who, by their vows and by hand, were taken into a conscientious obligation to carry out their duties and employed by a German office or by a Protectorate office, if this was established as the Reign Command Administration (im auftrage des reichs), or by an organization of a military and transitional economy, which the Reim Protector designated. The protector was also to determine the form of "reliance" to the State. German courts found the law "in the name of the German nation." If the crimes of German nationals in the Protectorate could not be applied to criminal rules of the empire, the German court judged the act according to the protectorate