Treason: From the German Criminal Code

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Section 94
Treason
(1) Whosoever

1.  communicates a state secret to a foreign power or one of its intermediaries; or

2.  otherwise allows a state secret to come to the attention of an unauthorised person or to become known to the public in order to prejudice the Federal Republic of Germany or benefit a foreign power

and thereby creates a danger of serious prejudice to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany, shall be liable to imprisonment of not less than one year.
(2) In especially serious cases the penalty shall be imprisonment for life or of not less than five years. An especially serious case will typically occur if the offender

1.  abuses a position of responsibility which especially obliges him to safeguard state secrets; or

2.  through the offence creates the danger of an especially serious prejudice to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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