English Translation

189 A certain privilege of proceedings before the People's Court of Justice was a case of pardon which, even without a request from the convicted person, followed the judgment and was to give the appearance of the legal state of Hitler's Germany. It was followed by a directive issued directly by Adolf Hitler of 1. February 1935 (533), when the Reich's Minister of Justice sent a list of persons sentenced to death each month to the Prezidial (Roman) office, the People's Court of Justice, and then awaited a final decision on grace, which was quite exceptional. During the severe raids on Berlin, this process was simplified and only the Reich's Minister of Justice Otto Thierack decided on grace, in cases of undisputed death sentences was ordered immediately. During Bloody Nights, as referred to on September 7, 8 and 9, 1943, 360 people were executed in Plötzensee prison near Berlin at 140 Bohemia. The Germans were worried that after the bombing of the prisoners' allies, they would not escape and so the Reich's Minister of Justice gave orders for their mass execution. The decision of grace was therefore reduced from a few months to just a few hours. Alongside them died members of the military resistance, communists, falcon, national socialists... Men in the best years, fathers of families, intellectuals and workers, among them often also talented creators who could leave significant traces in our culture as well as world culture. (534) Among them, the author of the world-famous report was also sentenced to death by Julius Fučík, who was executed in Berlin's Alt Moabit prison together with another resistanceman Jaroslav Klecan, after which they were transferred to Plözensee and only two weeks after the conviction, without waiting for the results of the pardon proceedings for other Nazis. ((535) About two hundred Czechoslovak resistance fighters were executed in the hatchet in Brandenburg between 1940 and 1945. The costs of criminal proceedings applied to the sentenced, or his family, were determined by the Reichs' High Prosecutor. A fixed fee was set for certain acts, such as the death penalty of 300 Reich Marks, the cost of custody was 1.50 Reichmarks per day and the costs of defence and postage charges. While in the Protectorate the bodies executed were cremated or stored