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195 In retaliation for Heydrich's death, the Germans also sent transport of 1,000 Jews from Prague directly to the extermination camp Majdanek. The war was survived by one of them. (557) 2.4.3.2 Tzv. martial courts In the concept of the Nazis, the martial court was not in the protectorate of the judicial institutions in the true sense, as it would perhaps correspond to the field court of war according to the standards of war law (see above), but was essentially an authority of police, established at the main offices of the Gestapo in Prague and Brno. The martial court was a repressive body whose main task was to coordinate police, but also media measures in the declaration of martial law. We thought that the court was sitting in Prague. We were surprised that this court was not on the spot, but we accepted this as a peculiarity of war and martial rights. That this one was often very hard, we were aware of it. ©, after the war stated member of the Klatovský Gestapo Harry Obermayer. (558) There was no proceedings, no evidence was carried out, the defendant was not present or present and had no right to defend himself. Judgments were announced by radio and press and were executed without delay and their preparation became the domain of individual police security departments (Sipo), its reports, which dealt with specific cases. The judgment of the "secretary court" was drawn up in the police department and had to contain the name of the convicted person, the statement of the judgment, a short justification and a service number of the case. In order to respect the appearance of justice, three SS commanders' signatures, i.e. Sipo members, who were also SS dignitaries, had to be listed under the judgment. Since the part of Sipo was also a Gestapo, which carried out the "investigation," the victim was looked for into a deadly mill from which there was no escape. "The power of the court was merged, which excluded the possibility of any supervision, appeal and appeal," says Vojtěch Kyncl. (559) The collection of evidence for the martial court was merely a formal investigation by the Gestapo, which after the first state of emergency was declared.