Chapter XLVIII: Section 8

(1) Anyone committing an act of violence against a member of the German armed forces or their auxiliaries, the German police including their auxiliary forces, the Reich labor service, or a German authority, or office, or organization of the NSDAP will be punished with the death penalty.

(2) In less serious cases, particularly when the perpetrator has allowed himself to be carried away by excusable violent excitement, a sentence of hard labor for life or for a certain period of time, or imprisonment is to be imposed.