Article I applies also to acts committed before this decree becomes effective.
Fuehrer Headquarters, 5 May 1944
The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces
Keitel
- TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-1918
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 531
DECREE OF 25 AUGUST 1944, FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE TOTAL WAR EFFORT
1944 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 184
Pursuant to the decree of the Fuehrer concerning special powers of the Reich Minister of Justice,[110] of 20 August 1942 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 535), in connection with the decree of the Fuehrer concerning total war effort of 25 July 1944 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 161) the following is ordered in agreement with the Reich Minister and chief of the Reich Chancellery, the chief of the Party Chancellery, and the Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich.
Article I
(1) He who willfully or negligently violates an order or prohibition contained in a legal decree or a duly promulgated administrative order of the Reich government, any Supreme Reich Authority or any other authority on the same level with it concerning measures for implementing total war effort, will be punished with imprisonment and/or a fine.