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205 efforts by the occupiers to Germanize the Czech space. As Vojtěch Kyncl claims, the Czech authorities and prosecutors considered executions of pregnant women and adolescents to be particularly reprehensible acts. In all the laws of Western Europe and in the spirit of the principles of humanity, these persons cannot be sentenced to death and their criminal activity cannot be dealt with in front of martial courts. None of the responsible officials took any account of these circumstances. Only during the second martial law period were 40 juveniles and at least two pregnant women reportedly shot. V. Kyncl aptly wrote that "the same right allowed the Nazis to kill and gave way to the excessive behaviour of individuals who had their interests in the removal of specific persons." (588) The judgments of the "secret court" were an act of perjury, terror and violence against the civilian population and as such a war crime defined by the United Nations International Law Commission after World War II in the so-called. seven Nuremberg principles, which were the generalization of the knowledge of the International Court of Justice in Nuremberk. 2.4.3.4 The Pankrác hatchet Tragic fates and heroism of the Czechoslovak patriots are inseparably connected to the pankrák axe. Although in 1944 the Nazi justice employed eleven permanent executioners, it was not enough at the rate she sent people to their deaths, even though the effectiveness and efficiency of executions were closely monitored and individual executioners and competed at the speed at which execution would be carried out. One executioners for example pushed the convicts not to be bound by classical ropes before execution, and replaced them with handcuffs. It accelerated the execution process by several valuable seconds, which was modified with German consistency by the Directive for executions No. 82 of 1937, issued by the Reich's Ministry of Justice. (589)