Ordinance concerning the administration of justice regarding Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories
Of....................1941
The Ministerial Council for Reich Defense decrees the following law:
1. Substantive Penal Law
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(1) Poles and Jews living in the Incorporated Eastern Territories have to conduct themselves according to the German laws and to the instructions issued for them by the German authorities. They have to refrain from every act detrimental to the sovereignty of the German Reich or to the prestige of the German people.
(2) They will be punished by death if they commit an act of violence against a German on account of his membership in the German ethnic community.
(3) They will be punished by death, in less severe cases with an imprisonment, if they manifest an attitude hostile to Germany by hateful or inflammatory activity. Especially, if they talk in a way which is inimical to Germany or if they tear down or damage public announcements posted by German authorities or offices. Also, if they lower or damage the prestige or the welfare of the German Reich or the German people by their conduct in general.
(4) They will be punished by death, in less severe cases with imprisonment—
1. If they commit an act of violence against any member of the German armed forces or its auxiliaries, the German police including its auxiliaries, the Reich labor service, a German authority or office or an organization of the NSDAP;
2. If they deliberately cause damage to installations of the German authorities, or offices, or to things which are used in the course of their work or are established for the public interest;