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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-57

1946-1948

A sentence of ten years imprisonment is pronounced by Tribunal III for defendant WOLFGANG METTGENBERG, shown here standing between U.S. Army guards. Mettgenberg held high directorial positions in the Reich Ministry of Justice. The defendant fully admitted his connection with the Hitler "Night and Day Decree" and stated that he had extensive authority over the entire plan from the time foreign nationals were arrested in occupied territories and transferred to Germany for trial, execution, or imprisonment on political charges. By Mettgenberg's admission of his work, and by evidence submitted, the court found the defendant guilty on counts two and three of the indictment which charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-57 / A sentence of ten years imprisonment is pronounced by Tribunal III for defendant WOLFGANG METTGENBERG, shown here standing between U.S. Army guards. Mettgenberg held high directorial positions in the Reich Ministry of Justice. The defendant fully admitted his connection with the Hitler "Night and Day Decree" and stated that he had extensive authority over the entire plan from the time foreign nationals were arrested in occupied territories and transferred to Germany for trial, execution, or imprisonment on political charges. By Mettgenberg's admission of his work, and by evidence submitted, the court found the defendant guilty on counts two and three of the indictment which charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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