b. Members of the Protectorate.
c. Poles and Jews sentenced on the basis of the Penal Ordinance for Poles.
d. Other racial Jews.
Taking these individual groups together, a total of 457,129 persons were sentenced[362] with legally binding effect in the Greater German Reich for crimes and offenses against laws of the Reich (not counting sentences for crimes and offenses against laws of the Reich falling under the jurisdiction of the People’s Court) that is, 9.4 percent more than in the year 1941 (417,923). The number of persons convicted with legally binding effect amounts to 417,001—91.2 percent of the total number of persons accused; 1941 [amounted] to 377,072—90.2 percent. Punishment was inflicted on 372,502 persons convicted (1941: 346,105)—89.3 percent (91.8 percent) and punishment and corrective measures on 2,449 (3,082)—0.6 percent (0.8 percent).
Of 29,305 (1941: 30,540) persons sentenced 6.4 percent (7.3 percent) were acquitted. In addition corrective measures were decreed in the case of 139 (134) defendants who were acquitted, in the case of 487 (495) corrective measures were decreed independently, and in the case of 35 (54) persons a motion to decree corrective measures independently was refused.
In 10,162 cases (2.2 percent) compared with 9,628 (2.3 percent) in the previous year, proceedings were quashed by the court.
In the year reported on 84,318—20.2 percent of the total number of persons convicted, compared with 92,546—24.5 percent in the year 1941, were persons who had been previously convicted of crimes or offenses against laws of the Reich.
Total number of persons convicted—
| 1941 | 1942 | |||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
| I. Crimes and offenses in violation of the Reich Penal Code | 232,888 | 61.8 | 240,473 | 57.7 |
| II. Crimes and offenses in violation of other laws of the Reich | 144,184 | 38.2 | 176,528 | 42.3 |
Thus, the proportion of crimes and offenses in violation of the Reich Penal Code decreased from 1941 to 1942, whereas the proportion of those in violation of other laws of the Reich increases as a result of the growing number of violations of wartime penal legislation.