Article II

The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, the Reich Air Minister and Supreme Commander of the Air Force, as well as the Reich Minister of Justice may each order within their jurisdiction that the penal regulations against treason (articles 88 to 93a of the Reich Penal Code in the version of the third part of the law dated 16 September 1939, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1841) should be applied also to criminal acts which were committed prior to the date the law dated 24 April 1934, Reichsgesetzblatt I, page 341, came into effect.

Article III

The law is also valid in the Incorporated Eastern Territories. Fuehrer Headquarters,..............1942

The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor

The Chairman of the Ministerial Council for Reich Defense

The Reich Marshal

The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces

The Reich Minister of the Interior

The Acting Reich Minister of Justice