Ustalanie właściwości sądów polskich (nieniemieckich) w sprawach karnych przez prokuraturę niemiecką w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie w latach 1939–1945

Abstract

The article discusses the issue of determining jurisdiction by the German prosecutor's office in criminal cases in the General Government concerning the Polish (non-German) judiciary. The study uses the legal-history methodology. The author indicated and analyzed the legal basis for the subject matter. The procedure for determining jurisdiction has been reconstructed, from preparatory proceedings to the possibility of changing final judgments. In addition, criteria were indicated that determined the selection of a specific type of court to consider a case. The article also analyzes the practice of the German prosecutor's office in this regard. The research was based on the analysis of the preserved files of proceedings of German courts, special courts, and Polish (non-German) courts, which met the criteria of the adopted methodology. The thesis of the work assumes that the German prosecutor's office transferred to special courts, apart from those cases that belonged to their jurisdiction under the provisions of the regulations in force in the General Government, also those that concerned acts and perpetrators requiring severe punishment, under the Nazi views on criminal law.