“A Pole or a Jew sentenced by a German court is not to be allowed in the future any legal remedy against the judgment. Neither will he have a right of appeal or be allowed to ask that the case be reopened. All sentences will take effect immediately. In the future Poles and Jews will also no longer be allowed to object to German judges on the grounds of prejudice nor will they be able to take an oath. Coercive measures against them are permissible under easier conditions. * * * * * * * “In this sphere of criminal procedure the draft clearly shows the difference in the political status of Germans on one side and Poles and Jews on the other. * * * * * * * “Criminal proceedings based on this draft will accordingly be characterized by the greatest possible speed, together with immediate execution of sentence and will therefore in no way be inferior to summary court proceedings. The possibility of applying the most severe penalties in every appropriate case will enable the penal law administration to cooperate energetically in the realization of the Fuehrer’s political aims in the Eastern Territories.” One of the amendments to this decree, on 3 December 1942 states that no German attorney is to undertake the defense of Polish persons before tribunals in the Incorporated Eastern Territories. This, in effect, prevented any accused person before these courts from having defense counsel, since Polish lawyers were prohibited from engaging in any legal practice. That this provision was received favorably by Ministry officials is indicated by a letter from the president of the court of appeals in Koenigsberg addressed to the Reich Minister of Justice shortly after this supplementary decree became effective. The judge, in the course of his letter, says this: “It is in the German interest to continue to prohibit the defense of Poles by German jurists * * *. “I see no cause to lift or even to modify the present ban on defense of Poles by attorneys. On the contrary, the ban placed on the principle of rendering legal assistance to Poles by attorneys should be still further stressed and made more extensive.” To put to rest any fear that the ban of German attorneys would result in a competitive hardship on them, this judge has the following to say: “The fear that, in the future, former Polish attorneys or counsel may be called in to act as legal advisers to Poles and may gain influence over them (i.e., German counsel) seems to me improbable. In the Incorporated Eastern Territories of my district, where, although the population numbers about one million, only three attorneys are established, it has not been observed that former Polish attorneys or counsel are engaging in activities connected with matters of law.