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Para. 2, arson (Article 166) under circumstances and with consequences as defined in Article 167 clause a),
robbery (Article 190) under the circumstances and with the consequences as defined in Article 195, or
b) as defined by the criminal code Article V/1878, the crime of arson (Article 424), robbery (Articles 344
and 345), under the circumstances and with the consequences as defined by Article 349, Para. 1, Point 2
and Para. 2, will be punished by death.
(2) Any person who in the same period and under the same circumstances and with the same purpose
committed the following crimes:
a) under the criminal law of the May 27, 1855, No. 117, imp. code, the crime of public violence by
violent invasion of the immovable property of another person (Article 83), public violence by malicious
damage to the property of another (Article 85, 86, Para. 1), arson (Article 166) under the circumstances and
with the consequences defined in Article 167, Clauses b) to g), theft (Articles 171 to 180), embezzlement
(Articles 181 – 183), accessoryship to theft or embezzlement (Articles 185 and 186), robbery (Article 190)
under the circumstances and with the consequences defined in Article 191 – 194, accessoryship to robbery
(Article 196), fraud (Articles 197-201, 203), or
b) under the criminal law of the criminal code, Article V/1878, the crime of violation of the household by
private persons (Articles 330 and 331), the misdemeanour of damaging the property of another person
(Articles 418 and 420), which under the circumstances defined by Para. 1 of this Paragraph may be
considered a crime, arson (Articles 422 and 423), theft (Articles 333 to 341) to the extent that the act is not
criminal under Para. 1, Letter b) of this paragraph, accessoryship (Article 370), fraud (Article 379 in the
wording of Article 50 of the amended criminal law), under the circumstances defined in Article 383, Para. 2
with the exception of Article 382, will be punished by ten to twenty years hard labour and under specially
exacerbating circumstances from twenty years to life hard labour.
Article 9
Any person who alone or jointly with another, in the period of heightened threat to the Republic (Article 18),
in the service or in the interests of Germany or its allies, or a movement hostile to the Republic, its
organisation or members, caused property to be taken from the Czechoslovak state, a legal entity or physical
person in violation of the law of the Republic by court ruling, verdict, order or administrative decision of any
kind, or by the implementation of the verdict, order or administrative decision, will be punished, if he has not
committed a more seriously punishable crime, by between ten and twenty years hard labour, and under
particularly exacerbating circumstances by between twenty years hard labour and life.
Article 10
Any person who in the period of heightened threat to the Republic (Article 18) exploited the predicament
caused by national, political or racial persecution to enrich himself at the expense of the state, a legal entity or
physical person, will be punished, if he has not committed a more seriously punishable crime, by between five
and ten years hard labour.
Informing
Article 11
Any person who during the period of heightened threat to the Republic, in the service or in the interest of the
enemy, or exploiting the situation created by enemy occupation, informed on another person for some real or
invented activity, will be punished for the crime by between five to ten years hard labour. If, however, by his
act of informing, the culprit directly or indirectly caused a Czechoslovak citizen to lose his freedom, he will be
punished by between ten and twenty years’ hard labour. If the act of informing directly or indirectly caused
more than one person to lose his freedom or to suffer serious damage to health, the culprit will be punished
by life hard labour, and if the act of informing caused the death of anyone, the punishment will be death.
General Provisions
Article 12
Under this decree a foreigner may also be punished if he has committed the crime stated in Article 1, or one
of the crimes stated in Articles 4 to 9 abroad, provided that he committed such crimes against a Czechoslovak
state citizen or against Czechoslovak public or private property.
Article 13
(1) Criminal actions as defined in this decree cannot be justified on the grounds that they were ordered or
permitted by the regulations of a legal code other than the Czechoslovak, or by organs set up by a state power
other than the Czechoslovak, nor are they excused by the claim that the culprit considered such invalid
regulations to be justified.
(2) It is also no defence for the culprit to claim that he was carrying out his professional duties if he acted
with unusual zealousness, thus exceeding to a marked degree the normal framework of his duties, or if he was
active in the intention to assist the war efforts of the Germans (their allies), to damage or frustrate the war
efforts of Czechoslovakia (its allies), or if he acted for other clearly reprehensible motives.
(3) Irresistible compulsion by order of a superior is not a defence for any person who voluntarily became