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| Outside of these regular meetings the presidents will immediately report to me matters of special importance and urgency. |
| II |
| For the purpose of procuring the material I request the presidents to have the criminal and civil divisions and chambers submit brief reports to them every week in the form of a review and a summing up of important pending penal and civil cases, which, if necessary, will have to be supplemented by verbal reports. |
| III |
| Apart from the weekly presidents' meeting, a
special meeting with the presidents of the Special Courts in Hamburg will be
held in my office every week at a date personally arranged by me in each case
in which the attorney general and the chief public prosecutor of the Hamburg
district court will also take part. With this meeting I shall connect a
conference with the head of the public relations department for legal matters
in Hamburg. As stated under I, the chief prosecutor of the Hamburg district court will report on essential preliminary investigations on Special Court cases, which have been brought before the prosecuting authority during the preceding week. The presidents of the Special Courts will report in the same way on essential decisions passed by the Special Courts during the preceding week as well as on important cases to be tried before the Special Court in the following week. In case of urgent Special Court proceedings the presidents of the Special Courts have to report immediately and independently of these regular meetings. The cases of the Bremen Special Court will also be discussed at the presidents' conference. |
| IV |
| I consider as essential in the sense of
these instructions all cases which are of special importance, among them
primarily — a. Penal cases in which the death penalty or a long term of hard labor is to be expected. b. Penal cases which are of primary significance for the protection of the population. c. Penal cases due to the war, especially cases of offenses against the war economy, illegal slaughtering and similar penal cases, as well as cases against prisoners of war and against public enemies, and cases concerning crimes committed under the cover of the black-out |
