English Translation

31 8 of the lower authority was based on precise local knowledge. In the case of the German district chiefs, they came to a clear conclusion from the war necessity and also with the Czech-led district authorities, the district chief makes fundamental decisions in agreement with the head of the Reichsauftragsverwaltung, i.e. in the German sense. However, the case for work and the need for rapid intervention and immediate decision did not allow large-scale file operations to be carried out after an appeal had been filed, with comments, etc., and a "long-lived" legal decision to be derived from it. The decision should take account, first of all, of the need to immediately punish violations of war-related measures. If, however, every person concerned had the opportunity to take legal action against these decisions of the lower authorities - perhaps still by a lawyer on the part of a lawyer, who was very sensitive to juris- tice - this possibility would take its impact and effect only from the decision. Experience had shown that, in most cases, appeals against decisions of the district authorities were sufficient in the event of violations of the provisions of the war economy that the clerk ordered the regional authority first to postpone the execution of the sentence and thus removed the educationally dissuasive effect of the penal measures. The district head could not in any case give a detailed opinion on the legal medium due to a lack of time and try to refute it; but if then his decision was abrogated or amended by the regional authority, then the purpose and impact of all measures to prevent violations of the provisions of the war economy was made impossible. It was also added that the Supreme Prize Authority could be involved as a chamber of grace, which even more called into question the execution of the sanctions.