DECREE OF 6 JUNE 1940 ON THE INTRODUCTION OF GERMAN PENAL LAW IN THE INCORPORATED EASTERN TERRITORIES[327]
1940 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 844
On the basis of articles 8 and 12 of the decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor on the organization and administration of the Incorporated Eastern Territories of 8 October 1939 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 2042), the following is decreed on the administration of criminal law in the Incorporated Eastern Territories:[328]
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Article II
Special regulations with regard to criminal law for the Incorporated Eastern Territories
Section 8
(1) Anyone committing an act of violence against a member of the German armed forces or their auxiliaries, the German police including their auxiliary forces, the Reich labor service, or a German authority, or office, or organization of the NSDAP will be punished with the death penalty.
(2) In less serious cases, particularly when the perpetrator has allowed himself to be carried away by excusable violent excitement, a sentence of hard labor for life or for a certain period of time, or imprisonment is to be imposed.
Section 9