The Treachery Act of 1934 was a German law established by the

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on 20 December 1934. Known as the ''Heimtückegesetz'', its official title was the "Law against Treacherous Attacks on the State and Party and for the Protection of Party Uniforms" (''Gesetz gegen heimtückische Angriffe auf Staat und Partei und zum Schutz der Parteiuniformen''). It established penalties for the abuse of

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badges and uniforms, restricted the right to

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, and criminalized all remarks causing putative severe damage to the welfare of the Third Reich, the prestige of the Nazi government or the Nazi Party. The law drew on nearly identical provisions in the "Regulations of the

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for Defense from Treacherous Attacks Against the Government of the National Uprising", established 21 March 1933,''Reichsgesetzblatt'' 1933, I p. 135f and expanded the range of sentences.

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Reich Legal Gazette (Reichsgesetzblatt)
Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project. Retrieved September 5, 2011 {{Authority control Law in Nazi Germany 1934 in Germany German criminal law 1934 in law

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