Helmut Ortner
Author
Publisher
Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Though little known, the name of the judge Roland Freisler is inextricably linked to the judiciary in Nazi Germany. As well as serving as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he was the notorious president of the People s Court , a man directly responsible for more than 2,200 death sentences; with almost no exceptions, cases in the People s Court had predetermined guilty verdicts. It was Freisler, for example, who tried three activists...