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188 appointed K.H.Frank. The seat of the court was the headquarters of the SS, which worked in the building of the Faculty of Law - Charles University in Prague. (526) Members of the Protectorate also covered the jurisdiction of the Reichsgericht in Leipzig and the People's Court of Justice (Volksgerichtshof) in Berlin (527), which was responsible for the crimes of espionage, treason and treason. Later, because of its overload, the Supreme Courts in Dresden and Litoměřice and similar courts in Wroclaw and Vienna were involved in cases from Moravia. This was according to the decree of the Reich Minister of Justice of 7 July 1941. (528) The first Czechs came before the People's Court of Justice in 1940. The production and distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets and punishments were compared to what was to be lost a year to two later relatively mild. The People's Court of Justice was long directly Hitler, who was afraid of becoming martyrs of doomed Czechs. The courts were to take place only after the conclusion of the peace, in the noise of the winning festivals, now a firing squad is sufficient against the Czech rebels. (529) The change took place only with the arrival of R.Heydrich in Prague in autumn 1941 and the trial with the President of the Protectorate Government, Alois Elias. (530) From mid 1940 the Reichssicherheitshaupt - RSHA, the main office of Reich security, insisted on the removal of General Alois Elijah's protectorate government, who was to be put before the People's Court, but he opposed not only Neurath, but also the prosecutor of the folk court, Nazi lawyer Ernst Lautz. Heydrich, after his arrival in Prague, pushed for the prosecution to be brought up by the security police (Sicherheitspolizei - Sipo), who was directly subject to Heydrich. On 28 September 1941, Elias was arrested (531), and one day later, the head of the Prague Gestapo, as a file of Sipo, filed the charge, on September 30, 1941, relocated the first Senate of the People's Court from Berlin to Prague. The next day, the main trial was opened, and after four hours the death sentence was handed down for treason and aiding the enemy. For heydrichiada, 19.6.1942, the sentence was executed on A.Elias.