Keitel
The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Dr. Lammers
- PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112
EXTRACTS FROM LAW OF 4 SEPTEMBER 1941 AMENDING THE CRIMINAL (PENAL) CODE
1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 549
The Reich government has enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith:
Article 1
The dangerous habitual criminal (article 20a of the penal code) and the sex criminal (articles 176 through 178 of the penal code) are subject to the death penalty if the protection of the national community or the need of just expiation require it.
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