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Records of the prosecution of August Bonness, for undermining fighting morale

NMT 3

Authors

Klatt (Ministry of Justice, Berlin)

Klatt

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Otto Georg Thierack (President of People's Court; Minister of Justice, 1942-45)

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Otto Georg Thierack

German politician (1889-1946)

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Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen)
Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal)
Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)

Crohne (Dr., ministerial director, Ministry of Justice; People's Court)

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Wilhelm Crohne

German judge (1880-1945)

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Born: 1880-07-14 (Berlin)
Died: 1945-04-26 (Berlin)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge
Member of political party: German People's Party; Nazi Party
Position held: Judge of the People's Court
VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/237098911
WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-237098911

Koehler (Dr., judge, People's Court)

Koehler

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Roland Freisler (Dr., presiding judge of People's Court; undersecretary in Ministry of Justice)

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Roland Freisler

German lawyer and judge (1893-1945)

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Born: 1893-10-30 (Celle)
Died: 1945-02-03 (Berlin)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge; lawyer; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Member of: Schwarzburgbund
Position held: Judge of the People's Court (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-02-03; replaced by: Harry Haffner; replaces: Otto Georg Thierack); Member of Landtag of Prussia; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Educated at: University of Jena

Schlemann (Dr., judge, People's Court, first senate)

Schlemann

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Hans Surholt (defense attorney, Berlin)

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Hans Surholt

German lawyer, Nuremberg defense attorney

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Born: 1900-01-01 (Minden)
Occupation: assessor; lawyer
Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1933-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: criminal defense lawyer)
Significant person: Otto Rasch (role: client, criminal defense lawyer)
Residence: Berlin

Ernst Lautz (chief prosecutor, People's Court, Berlin)

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Ernst Lautz

German judge

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Born: 1887-11-13 (Wiesbaden)
Died: 1979-01-22 1977-01-22 (Lübeck)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge; prosecutor
Member of political party: German People's Party; Nazi Party (since: 1933-05-01)
Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/294962349
ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000399664933

Stuertz (Gauleiter, Berlin (1944))

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Emil Stuertz

German politician (1892-1945)

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Born: 1892-11-15 (Wipsowo)
Died: 1945-04-21
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1925-12-01)
Member of: National Socialist Motor Corps
Position held: Gauleiter (since: 1939-01-31); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/59859165

Hopf (Dr., Nazi Party Chancellery)

Hopf

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Date: 12 February 1945

Defendant: Ernst Lautz

Total Pages: 44

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NG-155

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 181

Document Book No: Prosecution 3

Citations: NMT 3 (page 1194), NMT 3 (page 1208), NMT 3 (page 4990)

HLSL Item No.: 6134

Notes:The first three pages list corrections to the text, which begins on the fourth page. Not every text in the document has an identified author. The first trial was held on 15 February 1944 and the second on 8 July 1944.

Trial Issue

People's Court and Special Courts, use of (IMT, NMT 3)

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NG-155: Imposition of death sentence by People's Court for uttering 'defeatist statements'

Doc Book Tables of Contents

NG-155: Imposition of death sentence by People's Court for uttering defeatist statements.

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