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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE OMT-III-W-18

1946-1948

Witness: Konrad Ferdinand Wilhelm Behl, first witness to appear before the court in Case Three. A former German judge, he was thrown out of office by the Nazi Party in 1935. He stated "when German judges were ordered to wear the Nazi insignia on their robes everybody understood that this was the visible sign of the end of their independence." He stated further under questioning that everyone who worked in the Ministry of Justice was "fully infromed" about the activities of the Gestapo, the security police, and the SS and "without any doubt knew what was happening in the concentration camps." Photo taken 18th of March, 1947.

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE OMT-III-W-18 / Witness: Konrad Ferdinand Wilhelm Behl, first witness to appear before the court in Case Three. A former German judge, he was thrown out of office by the Nazi Party in 1935. He stated "when German judges were ordered to wear the Nazi insignia on their robes everybody understood that this was the visible sign of the end of their independence." He stated further under questioning that everyone who worked in the Ministry of Justice was "fully infromed" about the activities of the Gestapo, the security police, and the SS and "without any doubt knew what was happening in the concentration camps." Photo taken 18th of March, 1947.

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