The Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich herewith decrees:
1. Substantive Criminal Law
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(1) Poles and Jews in the Incorporated Eastern Territories are to conduct themselves in conformity with the German laws and with the regulations introduced for them by the German authorities. They are to abstain from any conduct liable to prejudice the sovereignty of the German Reich or the prestige of the German people.
(2) The death penalty shall be imposed on any Pole or Jew if he commits an act of violence against a German on account of his membership in the German ethnic community.
(3) A Pole or Jew shall be sentenced to death, or in less serious cases to imprisonment, if he manifests anti-German sentiments by malicious or inciting activities particularly by making anti-German utterances, or by removing or defacing official notices of German authorities or agencies, or if he, by his conduct, lowers or prejudices the prestige or the well-being of the German Reich or the German people.
(4) The death penalty or, in less serious cases, imprisonment, shall be imposed on any Pole or Jew—
1. If he commits any act of violence against a member of the German armed forces or its auxiliaries, of the German police force or its auxiliaries, of the Reich labor service, of any German authority or agency or of an organization of the NSDAP;
2. If he purposely damages installations of the German authorities or agencies, objects used by them in performance of their duties, or objects of public utility;
3. If he solicits or incites another person to disobey any decree or regulation issued by the German authorities;