English Translation

1a -4 - Honorary rights were recognized for a period of two years, and for a loss of defence and rank. For the amount of the recognized penalty, it was above all decisive that the prisoner by his act in the Protectorate in particular damaged the reputation of the German Wehrmacht in the most serious way and that similar occurrences, in particular against animal persons, can be prevented for the future only by very sensitive punishments. (Ic A*. 14 Nr. 1125/4l @eh. 3.) Behaviour of Wehrmacht members. On 1 0.6.4l, the field court of a division zvei soldiers sentenced them to a penitentiary sentence of 5 years for joint robbery. At the same time, they recognized the loss of military dignity and denied both the civil rights of five years. Both soldiers had met in an inn with a protectorate member (Czech Republic), the Czech, who had already been heavily drunk, invited both soldiers to a beer. On the way home, both soldiers took the letter box from the teche- nical by force and removed the money found in it (approx. RM l7O. -) in order to precede it. At the time of the assessment of the sentence, it was considered to be a criminal offence that both of them had been convicted of 'diebstanls' and that, by their deed, they had damaged the reputation of the Wehrmacht in the Prote':torat to the most serious extent. The Vorfail is also the subject of the instruction. (Ic Az. 14 Nr. 11.29/4l. dated 27:6i1941) VNY 4.) Enemy propaganda. Since the beginning of the. The struggle against Bolshevism has been pointed out by both the British Minister of Formation, Duff Cooper, and Stalin, to the importance of propaganda in the present war. Both had to say that the German Mintag 51892 109-1-25