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O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts)

O.24 Reinhard Strecker Collection: Judges and Trials in Nazi Sondergerichte (Special Courts) Included in the Collection: - Microfilms JM/1750-JM/1752: Verdicts from trials held in special courts in Germany, Poland and the Protectorate; the trials usually were conducted against non-Jews, and in most cases, the sentence was death. Besides the verdict and verdicts rendered for appeals, in some instances the collection also contains correspondence regarding the carrying out of the sentences, including official notification that the verdict has been carried out; - Microfilm JM/1753: Reports regarding the...

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators, Sentence, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Interrogations and testimonies by victims and perpetrators; Documentation regarding the criminal case of Werner Hans Lindenblatt and Ruth Ascher, accused of "race defilement" in Berlin, 1942 - 1969 The file contains in detail: - List of questions for interrogations of victims and wittnesses (p 1-3). - Interrogation of Alice Choyke (date of birth: 22.06.1906 in Berlin) on 02.08.1968. In 1942 Choyke and her husband were deported to Riga (p 4-9). - Interrogation of Irene Dahl (date of birth: 16.05.1926 in Wickrath/Gravenbroich) on...

File Number : 69

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps); Letters by Bovensiepen's lawyer regarding his imprisonment; Examination of survivors and the Nazi attorney Ludwig Jarzina, 1968 - 1969 -request of Bovensiepen's lawyer concerning the imprisonment and written reply and decision of the Public Attorney’s Office Berlin (pp. 1-17) -testimony by Elisabeth-Marie Fabre (nee Remmlinger), former inmate of the prison in the Kantstrasse, regarding the activities of the Berlin Gestapo (pp. 18-22) -letter from Attorney General...

File Number : 55

Language : German

Personnel files of employees of the Nazi executive in the Warsaw district, including Waldemar Schoen, the official in charge of relocation in Warsaw, Heinz Auerswald, commissioner of the Warsaw Ghetto ("Kommissar fuer den Juedischen Wohnbezirk Warschau") and Hans Krueger, judge at the court of Konitz in Pomerania; documents dated, 1940-1943 Included in the file: Page 119/3 (which seems to belong to another file): Letter from the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland to the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Gebiete, 23 November 1942, stating that 30,000 Jews remained in the Minsk district ("Generalbezirk"),...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : Polish, German

"The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay written by Dr. Bruno Blau

"The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay written by Dr. Bruno Blau In the file: 2-Scanned File: Postwar "The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay by Dr. Bruno Blau, New York, describing the history of Nazi law from its early days undermining lawful procedures to its totally arbitrary approach to prosecution: - Executions of politically undesirable persons during the "Night of the Long Knives"; - Death penalties, based on overriding of court decisions by direct intervention of Hitler; - The "Nacht und Nebel Erlass" (Night and Fog Decree), 1941; - Nazi...

File Number : 325

Type of Material : Research Article, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Dr. Friedrich Shlomo Perles: Documents and other materials on the exhibition "In the Name of the German People - Judiciary and National Socialism" in Berlin 1989

Dr. Friedrich Shlomo Perles: Documents and other materials on the exhibition "In the Name of the German People - Judiciary and National Socialism" in Berlin 1989 1. Article by F. S. Perles about the exhibition 2. Speech of the Minister of Justice Engelhard at the opening of the exhibition 3. Table of contents of the exhibition 4. Photocopies of a compilation of texts and photos in the exhibition along with handwritten notes 5. Radio and press reports on the exhibition

File Number : 1246

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Lecture, Newspaper Clippings, Exhibition, Speech, Exhibition Catalog

Language : German

Five indictments from the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials", 1947

Five indictments from the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials", 1947 Files 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 were submitted on 04 January, 13 January, 08 February, 03 May and 10 May 1947; they include indictments against 71 [war] criminals. In File No. 3, an indictment was submitted against employees of the German Ministry of Justice ("The Judges' Trial"); In File No. 4, an indictment was submitted against employees of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department (WVHA) ("The Pohl Trial"); In File No. 5, an indictment was submitted against the owners and employees of the Flick K.G. company ("The Flick...

File Number : 578

Type of Material : Indictment

Language : English