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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III

1946-1948

OMT-III-D-42 Oswald Rothaug, known as the "hanging judge", eyes a prosecutor shrewdly during cross-examination when he took the stand in his own defense. A former Chief Justice of the infamous People's Court in Nurnberg, Rothaug was sentenced to life imprisonment for having perverted the German courts into an instrument of Nazi terror.

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Caption pasted to photograph reads: OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III / OMT-III-D-42 / Oswald Rothaug, known as the "hanging judge", eyes a prosecutor shrewdly during cross-examination when he took the stand in his own defense. A former Chief Justice of the infamous People's Court in Nurnberg, Rothaug was sentenced to life imprisonment for having perverted the German courts into an instrument of Nazi terror.

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