“6. For causing disobedience to regulations and orders issued by German authorities—and several other cases which in fact justified imprisonment for a short period at the most.”
I shall omit one passage and I shall limit my quotation to the following two paragraphs:
“b) No Pole”—stated the official Nazi instruction—“was allowed to approach a German woman to stain the noble blood of the Herrenvolk. Those who dared to do it or even those who did not get beyond the stage of attempting to do so, were inevitably facing death. But it was not only a court but the German court which was called upon to pass sentence in these cases. It was found superfluous to arrange trials—a simple order of the police proved sufficient to deprive people of their life.”
I conclude this quotation and pass on to a subject which in my opinion is very correctly referred to as the “Judicial Terror of the German Fascists in Czechoslovakia” in the report of the Czechoslovak Government. In this country we can systematically follow the ever-increasing destruction by the Hitlerites of all the accepted moral and legal standards.
The report of the Czechoslovak Government, already submitted to the Tribunal by my colleagues as Exhibit Number USSR-60, describes this process in detail, beginning with the so-called “people’s courts,” up to the organization of the so-called “Standgerichte.” I do not know what would be a correct translation of this term, so I shall use the term “Standgerichte” throughout. They are already familiar to us as organs of the Nazi arbitrary rule in Poland.
This process of the deterioration or rather collapse of the entire judicial system under the fascist rule is described in the report in great detail; I shall quote only a few short excerpts. I shall begin my quotation on Page 162 of the document book in the possession of the Tribunal, the last paragraph. I begin:
“The power to proclaim a state of emergency was applied not later than 28 September 1941. In accordance with a decree issued on the same date and signed by Heydrich, a state of civil emergency was proclaimed in the ‘Oberlandrat’ district in Prague; and, a few days later, in the remaining parts of the protectorate. ‘Standgerichte,’ which were set up immediately, were active during the entire period and pronounced 778 death sentences. All were executed and 1,000 people were turned over to the Gestapo, that is, sent to concentration camps.”
I omit the end of the paragraph, and I quote the following paragraph:
“The only directive as to the administration, organization, and rules of procedure at the ‘Standgerichte’ is contained in the decree of 27 September 1941.”
I omit the rest of the paragraph and I continue the quotation on Page 163, fifth paragraph of the book of documents.