Collection GB 1556 WL 534 - War crimes trial: Euthanasia case papers (microfilm)

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GB 1556 WL 534

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War crimes trial: Euthanasia case papers (microfilm)

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  • 1947 (Creation)

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34 frames

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Regional courts (Landgerichte) and the higher, appeal courts (Oberlandgerichte) throughout former West and East Germany conducted some 1800 Nazi war crimes trials involving some 3500 defendants from the end of the Second World War until the modern era.

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GB 1556 WL 534 1947 collection 34 frames Oberlandgericht Frankfurt am main

Regional courts (Landgerichte) and the higher, appeal courts (Oberlandgerichte) throughout former West and East Germany conducted some 1800 Nazi war crimes trials involving some 3500 defendants from the end of the Second World War until the modern era.

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Verdict and judgement in an appeal in a Nazi war crimes euthanasia trial against Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main, Ss 92/47, 1947. This copy trial document shows the verdict, sentence and trial judgement in a 'Euthanasia Case' appeal against Dr Walter Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main 12.8.1947 Ss 92/47. They were originally found guilty of multiple murder and accessories to multiple murder respectively at the Eichberg nursing home, Hessen, between 1941 and 1945, along with several other defendants at a trial at the LG Frankfurt am Main, 21 Dec 1946-, No. 4 Kls 15/46. The appeal court upheld the verdicts and in the case of Schmidt raised the sentence from life imprisonment to death.

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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Justiz und NS- Verbrechen: Sammlung deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistische Tötungsverbrechen, 1945-1966, ed. Fritz Bauer et al(University Press Amsterdam, 1968)

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn. 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. Oct 2007 Eichberg nursing home, Hessen Health services Hospitals Humanitarian law Medical institutions Nazism Oberlandgericht Frankfurt am main Political doctrines Schmidt , Eugen , fl 1939-1945 Schürg , Helen , fl 1939-1945 Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes

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Verdict and judgement in an appeal in a Nazi war crimes euthanasia trial against Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main, Ss 92/47, 1947. This copy trial document shows the verdict, sentence and trial judgement in a 'Euthanasia Case' appeal against Dr Walter Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main 12.8.1947 Ss 92/47. They were originally found guilty of multiple murder and accessories to multiple murder respectively at the Eichberg nursing home, Hessen, between 1941 and 1945, along with several other defendants at a trial at the LG Frankfurt am Main, 21 Dec 1946-, No. 4 Kls 15/46. The appeal court upheld the verdicts and in the case of Schmidt raised the sentence from life imprisonment to death.

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Open

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

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  • English

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  • Latin

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German

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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

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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.

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