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“Section 8. (1) It is for the chief of the Security Police and the SD (of Reich Leader SS) to decide whether the conditions for confiscation of property are given.
(2) The administration and liquidation of the forfeited property is up to the Chief of the Regional Finance Office, Berlin.”[618]
The decree of 4 December 1941 “concerning the organization and criminal jurisdiction against Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories”,[619] marks perhaps the extreme limit to which the Nazi government carried its statutory and decretal persecution of racial and religious minorities, but it also introduces another element of great importance. We refer to the extension of German laws to occupied territory, to purportedly annexed territory, and to territory of the so-called protectorates. The decree provides—
“(1) Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories are to conduct themselves in conformity with the German laws and with the regulations introduced for them by the German authorities. They are to abstain from any conduct liable to prejudice the sovereignty of the German Reich or the prestige of the German people.
“(2) The death penalty shall be imposed on any Pole or Jew if he commits an act of violence against a German on account of his being of German blood.
“(3) A Pole or Jew shall be sentenced to death, or in less serious cases to imprisonment, if he manifests anti-German sentiments by malicious activities or incitement, particularly by making anti-German utterances, or by removing or defacing official notices of German authorities or offices, or if he, by his conduct, lowers or prejudices the prestige or the well being of the German Reich or the German people.
“(4) The death penalty, or in less serious cases imprisonment, shall be imposed on any Jew or Pole:
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“3. If he urges or incites to disobedience to any decree or regulation issued by the German authorities;