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(1) The regulations I to IV of this ordinance will equally affect Poles and Jews, who had their place of residence, or permanent abode, within the territory of the former Polish state on 1 September 1939, and who have committed the crime within any other territory of the German Reich outside the Incorporated Eastern Territories.
(2) In addition, the court of the place of residence or abode at the respective time, is locally competent. For that court the regulations, given under V-XII, also apply.
(3) Paragraphs 1 and 2 are not applicable to crimes which are sentenced by courts of the Government General.
5. Concluding Regulations
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Poles in the sense of the ordinance are all proteges and stateless persons who belong to the Polish racial community.
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Article II of the ordinance of 6 June 1940,[333] concerning the introduction of German penal law into the Incorporated Eastern Territories, (Reich Law Gazette I, p. 844) does not apply any more to Poles and Jews.
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