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Document Image NMT 3 Image Letter to the Minister of Justice conveying Hitler's order that decisions on executing death sentences should be speeded up, and subsequent implementing orders Re: Acceleration of decisions concerning the carrying out of death sentences. HLSL Item No.: 6392 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-302 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 279	Hans H. Lammers See more details Hans H. Lammers German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962) Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec) Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party Member of: Schutzstaffel Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness) Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague) Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)	17 August 1943	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Letter to the Minister of Justice conveying Hitler's instruction that processing of potential pardons should be speeded up, with follow-up instructions Subject: Accelerating of the decisions concerning the execution of death sentences. HLSL Item No.: 6394 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-301 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 281	Otto L. Meissner See more details Otto Meissner German politician (1880-1953) Born: 1880-03-13 (Bischwiller) Died: 1953-05-27 (Munich) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: jurist; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Alte Straßburger Burschenschaft Germania Educated at: University of Strasbourg VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/69725518 Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)	03 September 1943	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Letter to Dr. Meissner on expediting handling of potential pardons, with response Re: Clemency plea procedure in cases of death sentences. HLSL Item No.: 6395 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-319 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 282	Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger) Otto L. Meissner See more details Otto Meissner German politician (1880-1953) Born: 1880-03-13 (Bischwiller) Died: 1953-05-27 (Munich) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: jurist; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Alte Straßburger Burschenschaft Germania Educated at: University of Strasbourg VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/69725518	11 November 1944	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Letters and memoranda concerning the execution of prisoners without authorization from the Ministry of Justice Subject: Execution in the Penitentiary Ploetzensee on the night of 7 to 8 September 1943. HLSL Item No.: 6399 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-213 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 286	Vollmer See more details Guenther Vollmer Nazi jurist (1902-1945) Born: 1902-04-20 (Kreuzau) Died: 1945-04-20 (Frankenberg) Occupation: jurist Employer: Reich Ministry of Justice VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/4145602319601360033 Wolfgang Mettgenberg See more details Wolfgang Mettgenberg German jurist Born: 1882-10-10 (Kleve) Died: 1950-04-07 (Landsberg Prison) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: jurist; prosecutor Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant) Employer: Reich Ministry of Justice (since: 1920-01-01) VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/39053517 ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000055473973 Carl Westphal See more details Carl Westphal German jurist Born: 1902-01-01 Died: 1946-01-01 (Nuremberg) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: jurist VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/835162238561213810000 Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger) Treppens Treppens Additional details not yet available. W. Lenhardt W. Lenhardt Additional details not yet available. Hans Stoltz Hans Stoltz Additional details not yet available.	09 September 1943	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Instructions to prosecutors and prison authorities on the evacuation of prisons (prisoners, valuable property, and records) in areas facing capture by the Allies, including the use of prisoners as soldiers, February-May 1945 Re: Preparation of an evacuation of the penal institution within the District of the Oberlandesgericht Graz. HLSL Item No.: 6406 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-30 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 290	Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger) Karl Armin Engert See more details Karl Engert German politician and judge (1877-1951) Born: 1877-10-23 (Szczecin) Died: 1951-09-08 Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1921-01-01) Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung (since: 1930-01-01) Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant) Significant person: Viktor Brack (role: acquaintance) Koblitz Koblitz Additional details not yet available. Welzl See more details Oskar Welzl Austrian lawyer Born: 1928-06-30 (St. Pölten) Died: 2019-11-20 (Linz) Country of citizenship: Austria Occupation: lawyer Educated at: University of Vienna Leidinger Leidinger Additional details not yet available. Sturma See more details Leo Sturma Austrian member of the Nazi party (1896-1965) Born: 1896-06-13 (Wels) Died: 1965-02-18 (Wels) Country of citizenship: Austria Occupation: judge; lawyer Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1934-11-04) Member of: Schutzstaffel Position held: mayor of Linz (period: 1940-01-01 through 1944-01-01; replaced by: Franz Langoth; replaces: Josef Wolkerstorfer) Educated at: University of Innsbruck	05 February 1945	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Instructions to Herbert Klemm on the carrying out of executions Subject: Carrying-out of death sentences against marauders HLSL Item No.: 6412 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-324 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 296	Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)	01 December 1942	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Letter to the Propaganda Ministry, with an article by Dr. Thierack on the use of prisoners for war work HLSL Item No.: 6419 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-245 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 302	Heinz Kuemmerlein See more details Heinz Kuemmerlein German lawyer and National Socialist official Born: 1909-04-25 (Essen) Died: 1979-01-01 Occupation: lawyer Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Sturmabteilung Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-07-04; role: affiant) VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/384144782989222283769 ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000076974355 Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)	21 September 1944	Document Image
Document Image NMT 3 Image Reports and instructions on speeding up the carrying out of death sentences, 1938-1942 Re: Death Sentences in Treason and High Treason Cases HLSL Item No.: 6421 Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK) Evidence Code: NG-284 Exhibit Code: Prosecution 449	Otto Georg Thierack See more details Otto Georg Thierack German politician (1889-1946) Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen) Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01) Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal) Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger) Schneidewind Schneidewind Additional details not yet available. Roland Freisler See more details Roland Freisler German lawyer and judge (1893-1945) Born: 1893-10-30 (Celle) Died: 1945-02-03 (Berlin) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: judge; lawyer; politician Member of political party: Nazi Party Member of: Schwarzburgbund Position held: Judge of the People's Court (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-02-03; replaced by: Harry Haffner; replaces: Otto Georg Thierack); Member of Landtag of Prussia; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Educated at: University of Jena	13 June 1938	Document Image