Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IIIVarious
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Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume III
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
3. The perpetrator is apprehended in Germany and is not
extradited, although the nature of his act would permit
extradition.
German criminal law will be applied to the following acts committed
by a foreigner abroad, independently of the laws of the place of
commitment:
1. Acts committed while holding a German government office, as
a German soldier, or as member of the Reich Labor Service, or
committed against a holder of an office of the German State or
the Party, against a German soldier, or a member of the Reich
Labor Service, while on duty, or relating to his duty;
2. Acts constituting treason or high treason against the German
Reich;
3. Crimes committed with explosives;
4. Traffic in children and women;
5. Disclosure of a manufacturing or commercial secret of a
German enterprise;
6. Perjury committed in the course of proceedings of a German
court or some other German agency authorized to take oaths;
7. Crimes and offenses of counterfeiting;
8. Unauthorized sale of narcotics;
9. Trade with pornographic publications.
Article 5
German criminal law will be applied, independently of the laws of the
place of commitment, to crimes committed on a German vessel or a German
airplane.
Section II
Regulations Amending the Rules of Criminal Procedure:
1. As article 8 a of the Code of Criminal Procedure the
following regulation is being inserted:
Article 8 a
Jurisdiction shall also be established at the court in the district of
which the defendant is being detained by order of an authority at the
time the indictment is filed.
2. As article 153 a of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the following
regulation is being inserted:
Article 153 a
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An act committed by a foreigner abroad will be prosecuted by the public
prosecutor only if so demanded by the Reich Minister of Justice.
The public prosecutor may abstain from the prosecution of a punishable
act if for the same act punishment has already been carried out abroad
and the sentence to be expected in Germany, after deducting the time
served abroad, would not be heavy.
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Berlin, 6 May 1940
The Chairman of the Ministerial
Council for National Defense
FIELD MARSHAL GOERING
The Plenipotentiary General for the
Administration of the Reich
FRICK
The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
DR. LAMMERS
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-1807
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 626
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