The Archive · 1940

Nazis Apply Own Law

In Holland

Berlin, July 21.

German criminal law is to be one foreed in the Netherlands, states a German news agency report from The Hague.

'A decree of the Reich Commissioner ays down that the seat of justice will bbe The Hague and will fu to the exclusion of Dutch law in prosecutions and sentencing of offenders who are Germans, those who formerly had German' nationality or those who irrespective of nationality. commit offences against the German Reich and people, the National Socialist Perty or German citizens—Reuter.

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