Collection GB 1556 WL 1050 - Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal

Identity area

Reference code

GB 1556 WL 1050

Title

Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal

Date(s)

  • 1968-1970 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 folder

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Unknown

Repository

Archival history

These documents are believed to have been deposited through an employee of the Wiener Library from the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen, Ludwigsburg.

GB 1556 WL 1050 1968-1970 collection 1 folder Unknown

Unknown

These documents are believed to have been deposited through an employee of the Wiener Library from the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen, Ludwigsburg.

Jewish Central Information Office

Papers of Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal, 1968-1970, comprise a trial judgement against 5 former members of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in which the state court of Osnabrück found 3 of the defendants guilty of mass murder and 2 of being accomplices to mass murder in Italy in 1943, 1968, and a trial judgement of the appeal of the 5 defendants, in which the Bundesgerichtshof upheld the appeal on the grounds that the period of 20 years under the statute of limitations had lapsed, 1970.

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

German

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

March 2008 Wars (events) Administration of justice Crime Europe Germany Homicide Humanitarian law Legal procedure Lower Saxony Nazism Osnabrück Political doctrines Third Reich Totalitarianism Trials War crimes War crime trials Weser-Ems Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Jewish Central Information Office

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Papers of Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal, 1968-1970, comprise a trial judgement against 5 former members of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in which the state court of Osnabrück found 3 of the defendants guilty of mass murder and 2 of being accomplices to mass murder in Italy in 1943, 1968, and a trial judgement of the appeal of the 5 defendants, in which the Bundesgerichtshof upheld the appeal on the grounds that the period of 20 years under the statute of limitations had lapsed, 1970.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

German

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Wiener Library

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Status

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

    Sources

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