Criminal Procedure and the Execution of Sentences in the Third Reich

Sa？etak The author analyzes the underlying principles and course of criminal proceedings in the Third Reich, execution of sentences and the effect of the executive on the judiciary. It is visible in two directions. Firstly, there was the set of rules and instructions that judges had to follow in criminal proceedings, and the second was the spread of the power of one part of the executive - the police - to the most vulnerable area of human rights violations, punishment. In addition to the judiciary, the prosecution, the police, the army and the media were hit harder by the nazification. The author also explains penal institutions (prisons and penitentiaries) and concentration camps as institutions specific to totalitarian regimes. Due to the dual system of punishment, courts and police, special emphasis is put on the Secret State Police, which in cooperation with the SS organized mass deportation and genocide