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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III

1946-1948

OMT-III-D-36 Franz Schlegelberger, former State Secretary and acting Reich Minister of Justice under Hitler, shown on the witness stand at Nurnberg as he testified in his own behalf. He was one of 14 defendants in the war crimes trial of Nazi ministers and jurists who perverted German courts into an instrument of National Socialism. He received a life sentence.

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Caption pasted to photograph reads: OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III / OMT-III-D-36 / Franz Schlegelberger, former State Secretary and acting Reich Minister of Justice under Hitler, shown on the witness stand at Nurnberg as he testified in his own behalf. He was one of 14 defendants in the war crimes trial of Nazi ministers and jurists who perverted German courts into an instrument of National Socialism. He received a life sentence.

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