DECREE OF 11 JUNE 1940 CONCERNING EXECUTION OF PRISON SENTENCES FOR CRIMES COMMITTED IN TIME OF WAR 1940 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 877 The Ministerial Council for National Defense decrees the following with legal force for the territory of Greater Germany: Article 1 (1) If a court martial or an SS and police court sentences a person to hard labor for crimes committed in time of war, or, sentences him, in addition to imprisonment, to loss of the right to bear arms, or loss of civil rights, and if the sentence is to be carried out within the scope of the Reich Administration of Justice, the period spent in prison during the war will not be included in the time of imprisonment. In special cases the judiciary can decide differently. (2) If a person has within the scope of the Reich Administration of Justice been sentenced to hard labor for a crime committed in time of war, the executing authority should give an order which complies with the legal consequence of article 1, paragraph 1. (3) The provisions of articles 1 and 2 apply also to prison sentences which have been passed before the effective date of this decree. (4) Prison sentences which are covered by the provisions of article 1, paragraph 1, or for the execution of which an order according to article 2 is given, will be executed under more strict conditions. Article 2 The Reich Minister of Justice is authorized to issue the necessary legal and administrative provisions for the carrying out or supplementation of this decree. He may determine that article 1, paragraph 2, should be applied accordingly if imprisonment is to be imposed. Article 3 This decree applies also in the Incorporated Eastern Territories. Berlin, 11 June 1940 The Chairman of the Ministerial Council for National Defense FIELD MARSHAL GOERING The Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich FRICK The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces KEITEL The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery DR. LAMMERS PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112 EXTRACTS FROM LAW OF 4 SEPTEMBER 1941 AMENDING THE CRIMINAL (PENAL) CODE 1941 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 549 The Reich government has enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith: Article 1