Newspaper articles on the sentencing by a Soviet of German officers to 15 to 25 years in labor camps for war crimes and the prosecutor's call for life sentences for defendants in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp case, noting the Soviet abolition of the death penalty

Authors

Wiener Kurier (Vienna newspaper)

Date: 31 October 1947

Literal Title: From the "Wiener Kurier" . . . Sentences passed in the first Russian trial of German officers.

Defendant: Werner Braune

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Exhibit Code: Braune 45

Document Book No: Braune 2

Defense Document No.: Braune 54

Citation: NMT 9 (page 5127)

HLSL Item No.: 250851

Notes:The prosecution objected to the admission of this document. Braune's attorney noted that the Soviets had abolished the death penalty.