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Extract from a Judges' Letter, on the need to set punishments to meet national interests
NMT 3
Authors
Otto Georg Thierack (President of People's Court; Minister of Justice, 1942-45)
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)
Date: 01 October 1942
Literal Title: Excerpt from: . . . Letters to the Judges . . . Number 1
Defendant: Rudolf Oeschey
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NG-298
Exhibit Code: Oeschey 53
Document Book No: Oeschey 2
Defense Document No.: Oeschey 166
Citation: NMT 3 (page 8622)
HLSL Item No.: 7458
Trial Issues
Legal and constitutional system in Germany, "general defense" in NMT 3 (NM… People's Court and Special Courts, use of (IMT, NMT 3)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NG-298: Richterbriefe (Judges Letters), issue No. 1, containing: (1) Thierack's conception of the functions of German judges (2) comments by Thierack on actual sentences passed by German courts during 1941-1942
Richterbriefe (Judges Letters), issue No. 1, containing: (1) Thierack's conception of the functions of German judges (2) comments by Thierack on actual sentences passed by German courts during 1941-1942