"Few days in history have witnessed an emotional outpouring as overwhelming as that which accompanied the liberation of Paris. Yet few men realized, or even now comprehend, the miracle that had occurred: how narrowly all of Paris had escaped being reduced to rubble and ashes... It interweaves the personal experiences of those who were in the forefront of the melée and those who were behind the scenes ...

(Munich 298) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Sentencing of Accused, Dachau, Germany, July 16, 1946. LS, spectators in courtroom. 1st Lt. Friedrich Crist sentenced to death by hanging. Maj Diefenthal receiving sentence of hanging. Gen. Sepp Dietrich receiving sentence of life imprisonment. PFC George Fleps sentenced to death. MS, defendants in dock as court president is heard sentencing Willi Heinz Hendel ...

Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal. 02:17:15 Hermann Wilhelm Goering: Death 02:18:08 ...

(Munich 619 and 620) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. MHSs, defendants enter the dock. Camera remains on defendants presiding judge hands down the following sentences: Wilhelm Beiglboeck, fifteen years imprisonment Herta Oberhauser, twenty years imprisonment Fritz Fischer, life imprisonment Hermann Becker-Freyseng, ...

(Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Sentencing of defendants in the Nuremberg "Medical Trial." Most are sentenced to death by hanging or life imprisonment. Slate reads: "Army Pictorial Division. War Crimes Trials. Sentencing. 20 Aug. Last 700. Case #1. CAM 369, MAG 522. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: "Medical Case" " MHSs, defendants ...

(Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Sentencing of defendants in the Nuremberg "Medical Trial." Most are sentenced to death by hanging or life imprisonment. Slate reads: "Army Pictorial Division. War Crimes Trials. Sentencing. 20 Aug. Last 700. Case #1. CAM 369, MAG 522. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: "Medical Case" " MHSs, defendants ...

Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen,. SOUND ONLY. Sentences pronounced by tribunal: Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Death (02:08:54) Albert Speer: 20 years ...

Traces Améry's life and discusses his writings on his Holocaust experience (in France, Belgium, and Auschwitz) comparing him with other authors of Holocaust memoirs, particularly Primo Levi. Describes his discovery of his Jewishness at the age of 17; he perceived it as imposed by society and quite early realized that it was a death sentence. He understood the Nuremberg Laws as initiating a process ...

Contains records related to various SS orders, decrees, and regulations concerning Jews. Includes the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht court; former Jewish dwellings in Odessa; death sentences in various locations and situations; partisan war in Croatia and death sentences for suspected partisans there; criminal statistics comparing the SS and the Wehrmacht; treatment of SS men assigned to KL Buchenwald ...

It includes notices, decisions in newspapers for death sentences, executions committed by the Germans, Nazi orders for the Greek Jews and articles on the arrival of Holocaust survivors in Thessaloniki.

Konrad Pietrzuch: Press cuttings regarding his murder 

Session 114. Dr. Servatius talks about the Israeli law concerning Nazis and their collaborators. 00:03:01 Retroactivity of law is discussed. He accuses the London Statute of being created, tailor-made, to condemn the defeated Nazis, and as such, should not apply. 00:06:44 Tape jumps. The President of Court is handed a paper, he looks at it, then thanks Dr. Servatius. Attorney General Hausner is granted ...

(Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Continuation of military hangings of three German civilians in courtyard, including Capt. Felix Freeman. MS, captain reading death sentences. Coffin containing bodies of executed men being moved out of courtyard.

Kazimierz Jan Wilk was born in Nowy Targ, Poland, on February 8, 1916. His father was a district engineer and his mother was a high school teacher; all four of their children received university degrees. Kazimierz graduated from the Polytechnic in L'vov, Poland, in spring 1939, with a degree in civil engineering. After the German invasion in September 1939, Wilk was employed by the Technical Department ...

Files of the Special Section of the Appeals Court of Paris judging individuals arrested for infractions against the pre-war penal code for communist or anarchist activities as well as “social and national subversion” and “crimes and misdemeanors against State security.” The sentences, ranging from prison with or without fines, to forced labor for life, or death, were to be executed immediately. Most ...

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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, ...

The collection contains i.a. items including German bills and public announcements; information on the establishment of the ghetto and forced labour for Jews; confiscations of property and its administration; death sentences; lists of deceased Jews for the years 1935-1942; an incomplete list of the Jews of Mielec (1941); lists of licences issued and tribute payments by residents in the years 1941-1943; ...

17:31 A clerk reads the list of Civil Parties. 18:07 The clerk lists what Barbie has been doing after the war. 18:14 The clerk discusses the Nazi police organization in France and the establishment of the "Final Solution." 18:23 The clerk lists the sentences against Barbie made in absentia, by the Permanent Military Court of Lyon on April 29, 1952 and on November 25, 1954, condemning Barbie to death. ...

1181/1<br /><br />Copy of a letter from Dr. G. Starinowsky to party member Kayser referring to a sitting of the Sondergericht in the Ukraine in which 4 death sentences were passed on Jews who were then executed. (20 Jul 1942) copy nd<br />German. Barely legible&nbsp;<br /><br /><br />1181/2&nbsp;<br /><br />Covering letter from the depositor 18 Apr 1957<br />German&nbsp;

Fred Reitler was born in Vienna, Austria, on 7 Aug. 1906. Because of the dangerous situation for Jews in Austria, Reitler fled to Antwerp, Belgium, in 1938. He later emigrated to the United States and became a citizen in 1944. He volunteered for service when he learned of the war crimes trials to be held after the war. Because of his knowledge of German and German shorthand, he was hired as a court ...

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