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Code of Crimes Against International Law (Völkerstrafgesetzbuch)
in PDF format, kindly provided by the Federal Ministry of Justice, but no longer available from their website
Youth Courts Law (Jugendgerichtsgesetz, JGG)
“Youth Courts Law in the version of the promulgation of 11 December 1974 (Federal Law Gazette [BGBl.]) Part I p. 3427, most recently amended by Article 1 of the Act of 8 July 2008 (Federal Law Gazette Part I p. 1212)”
Translation provided by the Federal Ministry for Justice and Chris Pavis and Neil Mussett and reproduced with kind permission.
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Criminal Procedure Code (Strafprozeßordnung, StPO)
In the version published on 7 April 1987 (Bundesgesetzblatt (Federal Law Gazette) I, page 1074, as corrected on page 1319)
Translation provided by the Federal Ministry of Justice and reproduced with kind permission.
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Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch, StGB)
As promulgated on 13 November 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 945, p. 3322).
Translation provided by the Federal Ministry of Justice and reproduced with kind permission.
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3 November 1992, case no. 5 StR 370/92, BGHSt 39, 1
Bundesgerichtshof, Fifth Criminal Senate, Judgment of 3 November 1992, case no. 5 StR 370/92, BGHSt 39, 1
The following has been reproduced from: Raymond Youngs, Sourcebook on German Law, Cavendish 1994, with kind permission by the author.
Please note: as the Sourcebook includes both the German original and the English translation next to each other, Raymond Youngs has translated into English the names of all statutes, courts, and titles of works cited. Please consult the book from which this translation has been reproduced if you wish to look up any of the references given in this judgment.
Translation, introductory note and footnotes by Raymond Youngs.
The shootings at the Berlin wall case (Mauerschützenfall)
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