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Article 5 
 
(1) As far as not otherwise stipulated, the procedure is subject to the provisions of the judicature act and the code of criminal procedure concerning the procedure before the Reich Supreme Court in the first instance.

(2) Against the decisions of the People's Court no legal appeal is permitted. 
 
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Berlin, 24 April 1934 
 
The Reich Chancellor
ADOLF HITLER  
The Reich Minister of Justice, at the same time
for the Reich Minister of the Interior
DR. GUERTNER  
 The Reich Defense Minister
VON BLOMBERG  
  
  
  
  
  PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NG-715 
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112
 
EXTRACTS FROM LAW OF 16 SEPTEMBER 1939 AMENDING
REGULATIONS OF GENERAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE,
MILITARY CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND
THE PENAL CODE 
 
1939 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1841 
 
Article 5 
 
The Special Senate of the People's Court 
 
(1) The special senate of the People's Courts consists of the President and of four members.

(2) The special senate is presided over by the president of the People's Court* and, if he cannot be present, by the vice president. One of the members must be a president of a senate or a professional associate judge at the People's Court.

(3) The members and their deputies are appointed for the duration of two business years by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor upon recommendation of the Reich Minister of Justice.
 
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*From 1936 until 1942, Thierack was President of the People's Court. In 1942, Thierack became Reich Minister of Justice, and Freisler, President of the Peoples Court. 233
 
 
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