[Signed] Dr. Schlegelberger
Enclosure c
Order regarding the Coming into Force of Legal Regulations in the Field of Administration of Justice in Penal Law within the Annexed Eastern Territories February 1940
By virtue of article 8 of the decree of the Fuehrer and Chancellor regarding the formation and administration of the Incorporated Eastern Territories of 8 October 1939 (Reich Law Gazette I, p. 2042) in the version of the decree of 2 November 1939 (Reich Law Gazette I, p. 2135) the following is decreed regarding the administration of justice in penal law within the annexed Incorporated Eastern Territories excepting the territory of the former Free City of Danzig:
Article 1
Coming into force of regulations of criminal law
It is ordered that within the sphere of administration of justice in criminal law the following laws and orders as well as the regulations decreed for the purpose of changing and supplementing them and the introductory, regulatory, and temporary regulations, in as much as it is not ruled otherwise:
I
1. The Criminal (Penal) Code for the German Reich.