English Translation

In contrast, some crimes against the former Czechoslovak Republic ceased to be criminal offences in the concept of the above-mentioned guiding principle "Volksgemeinschaft" in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, according to Hitler's decree of July 7, 1939 (518) among others. support and aiding the NSDAP and other political organizations of the empire and participation in them, as well as "the struggle to maintain Germanism in the Sudeton German regions" and their "return in the union of the Empire" which took place in Czechoslovakia before 16 March 1939 and which, according to Czechoslovak law, were punished as crimes, crimes or offenses, while the final judgments are viewed as not being made at all, the ongoing proceedings are stopped and new ones are not initiated. Punishment concerned not only Germans, but also other residents of Bohemia and Moravia, if these persons were subject to German justice. The decision of the German court on their jurisdiction in a specific matter may have been final to the protectorate court of jurisdiction. Only a German, a lawyer, even a Czech lawyer, could have been a judge in a German court, unless the Reich Minister of Justice authorised a member of the Czech Bar Association to do so, but he had to comply with the imperial professional regulations. Since 1944, the German prosecutors have been prohibited from issuing written judgments to convicted persons. If it was a retrial), but then the judgment had to remain secret, as well as the main trial in political matters, its actions were not allowed to be attended by the nearest relatives. (519) Similarly to the manner in which it was regulated in the Protectorate by the exercise of the jurisdiction referred to in the order of 14 April 1939, the enforcement of the military jurisdiction was modified a little later, by the Decree of 8 May 1939 (520). Other persons other than German nationals were subjected to this, if their actions were directed against German defence power and its members, violation of military secrecy, inciting privates to disobedience, seduction to defection, hiring in foreign military service, etc. In the further development of the German judicial system in the Protectorate, the districts and settlements of the individual courts (521) were mainly modified, and some of them were further developed.