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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-55

1946-1948

A sentence of life imprisonment is read by Tribunal III against the No. 2 defendant of the Justice Case, HERBERT KLEMM, who is pictured here between two U.S. guards in the defendants' dock. KLEMM, who was State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, was a leading figure in bringing foreign nationals into Germany, where they were tried usually on racial, religious, or political charges. He also formed plans to encourage the German civilian populations to kill Allied airmen who were shot down in Germany. The Tribunal found Klemm guilty on counts two and three of the indictment that charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Although he became a member of the NSDAP in 1930 and an Oberfuehrer in the SA in 1933, he was not found guilty under count four of the indictment, membership in a criminal organization as defined by the International Military Tribunal.

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-55 / A sentence of life imprisonment is read by Tribunal III against the No. 2 defendant of the Justice Case, HERBERT KLEMM, who is pictured here between two U.S. guards in the defendants' dock. KLEMM, who was State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, was a leading figure in bringing foreign nationals into Germany, where they were tried usually on racial, religious, or political charges. He also formed plans to encourage the German civilian populations to kill Allied airmen who were shot down in Germany. The Tribunal found Klemm guilty on counts two and three of the indictment that charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Although he became a member of the NSDAP in 1930 and an Oberfuehrer in the SA in 1933, he was not found guilty under count four of the indictment, membership in a criminal organization as defined by the International Military Tribunal.

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