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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III [TYPE FADED] OMT-III-D-54

1946-1948

Standing in the defendants dock where the 21 defendants of the IMT were tried, Guenther Joel, flanked by two U.S. Army guards, hears the presiding judge of Tribunal III pronounce sentence of imprisonment for ten years. Joel was chief prosecutor of the Court of Appeals in Hamm, covering the district of Westphalia and Essen, until the end of the war. He supervised all senior public prosecutors in his district, and was also in charge of the "Night and Fog" program in his courts. He earned the praise of this superiors for his scheme of racial persecution and extermination of the Poles and Jews. Joel was found guilty under counts two and three of the indictment which charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity and for his membership in the SS and SD in which he held the rank of Senior Colonel. He also was found guilty under count four of the indictment charging him with being a member of a criminal organization.

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III [TYPE FADED] OMT-III-D-54 / Standing in the defendants dock where the 21 defendants of the IMT were tried, Guenther Joel, flanked by two U.S. Army guards, hears the presiding judge of Tribunal III pronounce sentence of imprisonment for ten years. Joel was chief prosecutor of the Court of Appeals in Hamm, covering the district of Westphalia and Essen, until the end of the war. He supervised all senior public prosecutors in his district, and was also in charge of the "Night and Fog" program in his courts. He earned the praise of this superiors for his scheme of racial persecution and extermination of the Poles and Jews. Joel was found guilty under counts two and three of the indictment which charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity and for his membership in the SS and SD in which he held the rank of Senior Colonel. He also was found guilty under count four of the indictment charging him with being a member of a criminal organization.

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