STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 51 - political freedom , the Czech people have now been deprived of all guarantees of justice , which even in the worst organized countries are fed to the citizens. First of all, there is the abuse and extension of these prohibitions, the incendiary of the German order of proceedings in the area of the Protectorate also in traps, where no political , militä- on the ric or economic interests of the empire kx S,iele were standing, Here it should be noted that the source of the national socialist criminal law - and the @uschen "rights authorities are very The Czech inhabitants of the Frotektórat do not have the right to use German criminal law for protection, but they get to feel a dose of its rigour in disputes which they have suffered. In contrast to the text of the Charter and regardless of the protests of the competent organs of the government of the Russian Federation, the Reich Protector increased the competence of the lowest German courts, so that they are also responsible for cases where they are not citizens of the Reich, e.g. on the other hand, a special 'order of the Reichsprotektor' is confirmed by the fact that a sentence passed by a Czech judge can be rejected if the Reich's protector is not satisfied with him. In such cases, the part of the Czech judge is declared null and void and the case can be submitted to a German court for revision, The Charter of March 1, 1939 allows