On 12 March 1938, the German Army invaded Austria. The methods employed “were those of an aggressor.”[620] On the next day Austria was incorporated in the German Reich. As a result of the Munich pact of 29 September 1938, and of threatened invasion, Czechoslovakia was compelled to cede the Sudetenland to Germany,[621] and on 16 March 1939, Bohemia and Moravia were incorporated in the Reich as a protectorate. On 1 September 1939, Poland was invaded and thereafter occupied and, later on, Germany, by military force, occupied all or portions of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Russia. These occupations and annexations furnished the motive for an extension into many areas outside the old Reich of the draconic and discriminatory German laws which had been put in force within the old Reich. By the act of 14 April 1939, it was provided:
“Article II, section 6 (2). Persons who are not German nationals are subject to German jurisdiction for offenses—
“(a) to which German criminal law applies,
“(b) if they are prosecuted under a private action provided the action has been brought by a German national.
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“Section 7. German jurisdiction in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia excludes jurisdiction by the courts of the Protectorate unless otherwise provided.”
The decree of 5 September 1939 against public enemies, supra, was made “applicable in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and also for those persons who are not German citizens.”
By a decree of 25 November 1939 concerning damage to war material, it is provided in part:
“Section 2. Whoever disturbs or imperils the ordinary function of an enterprise essential to the defense of the Reich or to the supply of the population in that he made a thing serving the enterprise completely or partially unusable or put it out of commission, shall be punished by hard labor or in especially serious cases by death.
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