II a 119/42 secret
- Berlin W 8, 6 February 1942
- Wilhelmstrasse 65
- Phone: 110044
- Long distance: 11 65 16
[Stamp] Secret
Circular decree on the implementation of the executive decree of 6 February 1942, concerning the directives issued by the Fuehrer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces for the prosecution of criminal acts against the Reich or the occupying power in the occupied territories.
For the further execution of the directives mentioned before, I decree:
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Competent for the handling of the cases transferred to ordinary courts, including their eventual retrial, are, as far as they originate from the occupied French territories, the Special Court and the chief public prosecutor in Cologne; as far as they originate from the occupied Belgian and Dutch territories, the Special Court and the chief public prosecutor in Dortmund; as far as they originate from the occupied Norwegian territories, the Special Court and the chief prosecutor in Kiel; for the rest, the Special Court and the attorney general at the Berlin district court. In special cases I reserve to myself the decision of competence for each individual case.
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The Chief Public Prosecutor will inform me of the indictment, the intended plea and the sentence as well as of his intention to refrain from any accusation in a specific case.
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