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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-D-60

1946-1948

A sentence of seven years imprisonment is pronounced by the Tribunal against the former defendant in the Justice Case CURT ROTHENBERGER, shown here guarded by two U.S. Army guards in the defendants' dock of the main courtroom in t he [sic] Palace of Justice, Nurnberg. Rothenberger, President of the District Court of Appeals in Hamburg from 1935 to 1942 and Under Secretary of Justice in the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1942 to the end, was found to have used his high positions in the Nazi Judicial Process and the Party to influence judges of the courts in trying and sentencing of cases. Under Rothenberger's directives, Party members or persons associated with the party were to be given very lenient sentences, should they be brought to trials, and in keeping with the government's plan of extermination of t he[sic] non-Aryans he further ordered the death penalty should be given to any Jews, Poles, or Russians brought to trial and that extreme caution should be used in weighing any of their testimony. The Tribunal found Rothenberger 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-60 / A sentence of seven years imprisonment is pronounced by the Tribunal against the former defendant in the Justice Case CURT ROTHENBERGER, shown here guarded by two U.S. Army guards in the defendants' dock of the main courtroom in t he [sic] Palace of Justice, Nurnberg. Rothenberger, President of the District Court of Appeals in Hamburg from 1935 to 1942 and Under Secretary of Justice in the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1942 to the end, was found to have used his high positions in the Nazi Judicial Process and the Party to influence judges of the courts in trying and sentencing of cases. Under Rothenberger's directives, Party members or persons associated with the party were to be given very lenient sentences, should they be brought to trials, and in keeping with the government's plan of extermination of t he[sic] non-Aryans he further ordered the death penalty should be given to any Jews, Poles, or Russians brought to trial and that extreme caution should be used in weighing any of their testimony. The Tribunal found Rothenberger guilty on counts two and three of the indictment, which charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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