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

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- a9- the Reichsprotector did not use a German court instead of a Czech court, but the Beicheprotector gave nothing suf the objections of the Czech Minister of Justice, followed by further interference in the Czech judiciary, the competence of the German courts in civil disputes was extended also to German Juridical Fersons, whether the Charter does not make any mention of it. By drel decrees of 14 April 1939 - exactly the month after the German invasion of Prague - the competence of the German courts in civil disputes and criminal cases ad infinitum was sued, later the German "rights were declared as responsible for all questions administrative or political chroniclers, And even more : geaisse deutsche Verträge ia Protectorat the right to demand the sis- tion of a civilian decree, if its view seems to be advocating the material interests of the German partner,The incorruptibility of the judges will be seen by the German regime as an outdated liberal practice, which must cease, once a part of the Czech courts falls down on the mute authorities, so far as it does not exist without any appeal , but in addition the Czech judge , who has fallen the share , may be punished or dismissed by order of the local Landrat , the Gestapo has a considerable number of Czech judges who were not willing to submit themselves sufficiently to the autonomous decisions of the new Segim , into the "fright or in There are also cases where the German authorities act, without the competent Czech courts acting