The Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich

As Deputy, Himmler

The Chief of the Reich Chancellery

Dr. Lammers

DECREE OF 5 DECEMBER 1939 AGAINST VIOLENT CRIMINALS

1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 2378

The Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich decrees the following with the force of law for the area of the Greater German Reich:

Article 1

Armed Violence