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Article 5
The Special Senate of the People’s Court
(1) The special senate of the People’s Courts consists of the president and of four members.
(2) The special senate is presided over by the president of the People’s Court[134] and, if he cannot be present, by the vice president. One of the members must be a president of a senate or a professional associate judge at the People’s Court.
(3) The members and their deputies are appointed for the duration of two business years by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor upon recommendation of the Reich Minister of Justice.
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Fuehrer Headquarters, 16 September 1939
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler