Article 7 The Reich Minister for the Interior and the Reich Leader SS, in agreement with the Reich Ministers of Justice and of Finance, are authorized to decree in their own field of activities the regulations necessary for articles 4 and 5 as well as the regulations for the carrying out of this ordinance. Article 8 This ordinance becomes effective on the day of its proclamation. Berlin, 17 October 1939 The Chairman of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich FIELD MARSHAL GOERING The Plenipotentiary General for the Administration of the Reich FRICK The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery DR. LAMMERS PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112 EXTRACTS FROM DECREE, 25 NOVEMBER 1939, SUPPLEMENTING PENAL PROVISIONS FOR PROTECTION OF THE MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE[103] 1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 2319 The Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich decrees with the force of law: Article 1 _Damage to Military Equipment_ (1) Whoever intentionally destroys, renders unserviceable, damages, abandons or removes military equipment of an installation intended for the German defense, and thereby intentionally, or through negligence, endangers the fighting power of the German armed forces, will be punished with imprisonment of not less than 6 months. In serious cases the death penalty, or hard labor for life, or a term of hard labor will be imposed. (2) The same punishment will be inflicted upon a person who intentionally builds, manufactures or delivers in a defective manner military equipment or installations of the kind described above, and thereby intentionally or through negligence endangers the fighting power of the German armed forces. (3) The attempt is also punishable. (4) Whoever acts carelessly and thereby negligently endangers the fighting power of the German armed forces will be punished with imprisonment. (5) This regulation replaces article 143 a of the penal code. Article 2 _Disturbance of an Essential Enterprise_ (1) Whoever disturbs or endangers the orderly function of an enterprise essential to the defense of the Reich or to the supply of the population by making any object serving the enterprise completely or partially unusable or by putting it out of commission will be punished with hard labor or in especially serious cases with death. (2) In less serious cases the penalty will be imprisonment.