Article 5 _Retroactive Force_ This decree is also applicable to punishable acts committed before it came into force. Article 6 _Final Regulations_ The Reich Minister of Justice will issue the legal and administrative provisions required to carry out and supplement this decree, and the special provisions concerning the application of this decree in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Berlin, 5 December 1939 The Chairman of the Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich FIELD MARSHAL GOERING The Plenipotentiary 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 DECREE OF 6 MAY 1940 ON THE EXTENSION OF THE APPLICATION OF GERMAN CRIMINAL LAW 1940 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 754 The Ministerial Council for the Defense of the Reich decrees, for the territory of the greater German Reich, with the force of law: Section I _Extent of the Application of Criminal Law_ Articles 3 through 5, 8 and 37 of the Reich Penal Code will be replaced by the following regulations: Article 3 German criminal law will be applied to the crime of a German national, no matter whether it is committed in Germany or abroad. For a crime committed abroad, which according to the laws of the place of commitment is not punishable, German criminal law will not be applied, if such an act according to the sound sentiment of the German people--on account of the particular conditions prevailing at the place of commitment--is not considered to be deserving punishment. An act shall be deemed to have been committed in any place where the perpetrator has acted, or, in case the act consists in an omission, where he ought to have acted, or where the results of the act came about or were intended to come about. Article 4 German criminal law will be applied also in case of acts committed by a foreigner in Germany. German criminal law will be applied to a crime committed by a foreigner abroad, if it is punishable according to the penal code of the territory where it is committed, or if such territory is not subject to any punitive authority [Strafgewalt] and if-- 1. The perpetrator obtained German nationality after the act, or 2. The act is directed against the German people or a German national, or