GERMAN JUSTICE
Own Courts Operate (6.30 p.m.) LONDON. July .21. The Germans in the Britishoccupied territory of Germany are operatin'?- their own courts administered hv German judges with German lawyers practising, says a correspondent at 21st Army Group Headquarters. North Rhineland and Westphalia are to have 200 such courts, which will be under Military Government supervision, all work being done by Germans. Only those German magistrates and lawyers whose records survived a close scrutiny arc being allowed to practise. The German criminal code, minus most of the Nazi laws, will be used in these courts, which can impose two years’ penal servitude or five years' imprisonment. The courts cannot exercise jurisdiction in cases involving Allied interests or Allied witnesses. All North Rhineland and Westphalia it is expected will be under German legal jurisdiction by August 8. The selection of new public prosecutors has been the chief difficulty as many have been ardent Nazis.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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153GERMAN JUSTICE Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5
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