Chapter XV: Section I

Creation of law by analogous application of penal laws. Articles 2 and 2a of the penal code are amended as follows:

Article 2[92]

Whoever commits an act which the law declares as punishable or which deserves punishment according to the fundamental idea of a penal law or the sound sentiment of the people, shall be punished. If no specific penal law can be directly applied to the act, it shall be punished according to the law whose underlying principle can be most readily applied to the act.

Article 2a

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A law issued for a limited time only is to be applied to those criminal acts which were committed during its validity, even after its validity has expired.

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Berlin, 28 June 1935

The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
ADOLF HITLER

The Reich Minister of Justice
DR. GUERTNER

PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112

EXTRACTS FROM THE LAW, 28 JUNE 1935, THE CODE OF
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND THE JUDICATURE ACT

1935 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART 1, PAGE 844

The Reich government has enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith: