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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL-CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-58

1946-1948

The defendant RUDOLF OESCHEY, flanked by U.S. soldiers, stands at attention in the Nurnberg Palace of Justice, as he hears the tribunal pronounce sentence of imprisonment for life. As senior judge of the District Court at Nurnberg - known as the most brutal of the special courts in Germany - OESCHEY used his positon for racial and political persecution of Jews and Poles. In these special courts all sembalance [sic] of judicial process was lost. Judges of the court decided whether the accused should have defence counsel. In Febuary [sic] 1945, as a final measure of desperation, civilian courts martial were established in which the sentence would either be death, acquittal, or commitment to the regular court. OESCHEY was found guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, and having belonged to a CrimmiL [sic] Organization, the Party Leadership Corps.

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL-CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-58 / The defendant RUDOLF OESCHEY, flanked by U.S. soldiers, stands at attention in the Nurnberg Palace of Justice, as he hears the tribunal pronounce sentence of imprisonment for life. As senior judge of the District Court at Nurnberg - known as the most brutal of the special courts in Germany - OESCHEY used his positon for racial and political persecution of Jews and Poles. In these special courts all sembalance [sic] of judicial process was lost. Judges of the court decided whether the accused should have defence counsel. In Febuary [sic] 1945, as a final measure of desperation, civilian courts martial were established in which the sentence would either be death, acquittal, or commitment to the regular court. OESCHEY was found guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, and having belonged to a CrimmiL [sic] Organization, the Party Leadership Corps.

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