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Criminologists, prison wardens, managers of insane asylums and keepers of houses of correction from 50 countries arrived expectantly last week in Berlin. On Sept. 1 a new Nazi-made penal code becomes effective throughout Germany (TIME, July 8). Eager to explain it, Nazis were lavish hosts last week to the eleventh International Penal & Penitentiary Conference...
...familiarize new district attorneys, most of whom have never seen the inside of a grand jury room, with a working knowledge of detection and prosecution. In another the administrators of the nation's 3,300 nonFederal prisons would be shown how the Federal Bureau of Prisons runs its penal institutions. And to the third in the Bureau of Investigation would go local law enforcement officers for instruction in the complex art of crook catching. This week the last project was the first to get underway...
...Penal Code was in part authorized. None of it having been published, Minister without Portfolio Hans Frank explained: "German lawyers will be filled with joy to hear that the former principle of 'no punishment without law' has been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Führer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Führer' has become a legal concept." ¶ Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes...
Busy at Leipzig last week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
Conducting or owning a brothel is a crime, as defined by Section 1146 of the Penal Law and unless you have information substantiating your assertions you have committed a gross libel upon a whole people...