“4. If he conspires to commit an act punishable under paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), subsections 1 to 3, or if he seriously contemplates the carrying out of such an act, or if he offers himself to commit such an act, or accepts such an offer, or if he obtains credible information of such act, or of the intention of committing it, and fails to notify the authorities or any person threatened thereby at a time when danger can still be averted. [Emphasis added.]
“II. Punishment shall also be imposed on Poles or Jews if they act contrary to German criminal law or commit any act for which they deserve punishment in accordance with the fundamental principles of German criminal law and in view of the interests of the State in the Incorporated Eastern Territories.
“III. * * * (2) The death sentence shall be imposed in all cases where it is prescribed by the law. Moreover, in these cases where the law does not provide for the death sentence, it may and shall be imposed if the offense points to particularly grave for other reasons; the death sentence may also be passed upon juvenile offenders.
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“XIV. (1) The provisions contained in sections I-IV of this decree apply also to those Poles and Jews who on 1 September 1939 were domiciled or had their residence within the territory of the former Polish State, and who committed criminal offenses in any part of the German Reich other than the Incorporated Eastern Territories. * * *”
It will be observed that the title of the foregoing act refers to “Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories”, but Article XIV makes the decree also applicable to acts by Poles and Jews within any part of the German Reich, if on 1 September 1939 they were domiciled within the former Polish State. This section was repeatedly employed by the courts in the prosecution of Poles.
There was promulgated a thirteenth regulation under the Reich citizenship law which illustrates the increasing severity by means of which the government was attempting to reach a “solution of the Jewish problem” under the impulsion of the progressively adverse military situation. This regulation, under date of 1 July 1943, provides:
“Article 1. (1) Criminal actions committed by Jews shall be punished by the police.
“(2) The provision of the Polish penal laws of 4 December 1941 (RGBl. I, p. 759) shall no longer apply to Jews.
“Article 2. (1) The property of a Jew shall be confiscated by the Reich after his death.