[125] This decree is reproduced on p. 187.
[126] This decree is reproduced on p. 188.
[127] These decrees, dated 5 September, 4 September, 6 December, and 1 September 1939, respectively, are reproduced in section B, above.
[128] This decree is reproduced on p. 218.
[129] This decree, dated 28 February 1933, is reproduced on p. 160.
[130] This decree, dated 20 December 1934, is reproduced on p. 173 under the title, Law on Insidious Acts against State and for the Protection of Party Uniforms.
[131] A number of the contemporaneous documents reproduced later in this volume deal with trials held before senates of the People’s Court. Among the specific cases treated herein are the Stenfanowicz-Lenczewski case (Doc. NG-351, Pros. Ex. 132), reproduced below in section V D 2; the Bratek case (Doc. NG-595, Pros. Ex. 136), reproduced in part below in section V E; the Beck case (Doc. NG-381, Pros. Ex. 159), reproduced in part below in section V E; and the Paschen case (Doc. NG-546, Pros. Ex. 141), reproduced below in section V E.
[132] The law of 24 April 1934 consists of three chapters or parts (each divided into several articles and sections). Chapter I broadened and redefined the concepts of high treason and treason, according to National Socialist principles by amended articles 80–93 of the Reich criminal code. Chapter I is reproduced in part above in section B, Selected Laws and Decrees. Chapter III of the law, reproduced here, established a special judicial machinery to deal with high treason and treason as newly defined in chapters I and II. Materials on the application and interpretation of these provisions on treason and high treason are reproduced below in section V E.
[133] This decree is reproduced on p. 160.
[134] From 1936 until 1942, Thierack was President of the People’s Court. In 1942, Thierack became Reich Minister of Justice, and Freisler, President of the People’s Court.