When Himmler asked Hitler what the punishment of women found guilty of race defilement should be, Hitler said "having her hair shorn and being sent to a concentration camp".[58] Julius Streicher and others continued to claim the death penalty, which in some cases actually was given, using laws for aggravated punishment if using war-time brownout to commit the "offense" (on which pretext Leo Katzenberger e. g. was killed), if being a "dangerous habitual criminal", and the like. For the justification of death sentences, ordinances with broad elements of fact such as the "Verordnung gegen Volksschädlinge", which came into force on 7 September 1939,[59] were also used.[60]