Buch, Deutsch, Band 38, 892 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1698 g
Reihe: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen
Sammlung deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen 1945-1999
Buch, Deutsch, Band 38, 892 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1698 g
Reihe: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen
ISBN: 978-90-5356-724-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Volume 38 contains the trial judgments by district courts finalized between 1 January and 5 June 1973. Among other crimes, they address the so-called ghetto-liquidations of Pinsk, Radom and Zamosc, the mass shootings of Russian prisoners of war, and the activities of Einsatzkomando 10a in Southern Ukraine, during the early months of the German attack on the Soviet Union. After a twenty-year break, case nr. 789 forms the introduction to a series of trial proceedings before the Hamburg court concerning the extermination of the Jews from Riga (case nrs.789, 820, 843, 856 and 883).
Also contained in this volume is one of the two cases involving members of an SS-unit, whose commander was sentenced by the Supreme SS and Police Court in 1943 for indulging in excessive cruelties during the arbitrary shooting of Jews ("Täubner case"). Case Nr.792 sheds some interesting light on the contacts which defendants entertained both among themselves as well as with the Zentrale Stelle in Ludwigsburg, during the investigative, "pre-trial" phase.
As was noted in connection to the previous volume, cases relating to "resettlement actions" or other crimes committed in the ghettos led to a number of (partial) acquittals as a result of the inadequacy of evidence produced by witness testimony.
Finally, case nr.784 allows for comparison with the prosecution of NS-crimes in the GDR, as its criminal subject was - to a large extent at least - also treated in the trial judgment of the district court of Neubrandenburg from 1961 (case nr.1082).
