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Letter to the Minister of Justice (Thierack) on the prosecution of cases in occupied territories
NMT 3
Authors
Ernst Lautz (chief prosecutor, People's Court, Berlin)
Ernst Lautz
German judge
- Born: 1887-11-13 (Wiesbaden)
- Died: 1979-01-22 1977-01-22 (Lübeck)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; prosecutor
- Member of political party: German People's Party; Nazi Party (since: 1933-05-01)
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/294962349
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000399664933
Date: 15 May 1944
Literal Title: Subject: Prosecution of offences against the Reich or the army of occupation in the occupied territories.
Defendants: Ernst Lautz, Wolfgang Mettgenberg
Total Pages: 3
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NG-380
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 469
Document Book No: Prosecution 3
Citation: NMT 3 (page 3291)
HLSL Item No.: 6212
Trial Issues
People's Court and Special Courts, use of (IMT, NMT 3) Germanization of persons, property, or occupied territories (IMT, NMT 3, 8)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NG-380: Senior Reich Prosecutor Lautz indicates in a letter to the Ministry of Justice that the cases in which he acts as pro-secutor usually call for the death penalty