For this purpose, the application of the following laws will be found particularly useful: Articles 130a, 131, 134a, 134b (as of 1 September 1935) Reich Criminal (Penal) Law; further, articles 1 and 2 of the law against insidious attacks on the State and Party and for the protection of Party uniforms of 20 December 1934[539] (Law Gazette I, p. 1269); the decree of the Reichspraesident for the Protection of People and State of 28 February 1933[540] (Law Gazette I, p. 83); the law against the founding of new parties of 14 July 1933 (Law Gazette I, p. 479); and the law against public collections of 5 January 1934 (Law Gazette I, p. 1086).
The cases must be investigated with the utmost rapidity, so that the punishment will follow the crime as quickly as possible. The penalties called for at the trials shall be such as the national sense of justice deems appropriate to the dangerous nature of these intrigues against the State and people and the unscrupulousness of the perpetrators.
A report must be made to me in quintuplicate in all cases where proceedings of this type are initiated. At the close of the investigation a concluding report on the incidents indicating the measures to be taken will be submitted to me. In case of an indictment, the bill of indictment, and later the sentence, will be submitted, each in quintuplicate. If the sentence imposed is made the subject of an appeal, a report must be made to me immediately, indicating the probable result.
This circular decree will be published in the next number of “Deutsche Justiz,” together with an extract from the decree communicated below, issued by the Prussian Ministerpraesident Goering on 16 July 1935.
As deputy:
[Signed] Dr. Schlegelberger
- PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-1808
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 557
EXTRACTS FROM THE OFFICIAL FILES IN THE CASE AGAINST LUITPOLD SCHOSSER, A CATHOLIC PRIEST, SENTENCED ON 19 DECEMBER 1942, UNDER THE LAW AGAINST INSIDIOUS ATTACKS ON STATE AND PARTY, BY A SPECIAL COURT HEADED BY DEFENDANT ROTHAUG
National Socialist German Workers Party
Kreisleitung Amberg-Sulzbach (Gau Bayrische Ostmark) Bayreuth