The more you know in detail what was done with the Nazi assassins after the war, the more surprised one stays.
In the collective memory the Nuremberg trials are identified with the trials of the highest commanders of the Nazi régime, Goering, Hess, etc., but there were other judgments that the public totally ignores.
One of them was the trial of the judges. The German judges who wrote and executed the murdoreus German laws in Hitler's time. On whose consciences weighed thousands of innocent deaths.
The trial of the judges (officially, The United States of America vs. Josef Altstötter, et al.) Was the third of the twelve war crimes trials that the US authorities conducted in Nuremberg, in the US occupation zone in Germany, after the end of World War II.
These twelve trials were executed before US military courts and not before the International Military Court, although they took place in the same rooms at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice
Logically, a common citizen would expect them to be sentenced to harsh punishment or death. It was quite the opposite.
Nine
of them had been officers of the Reich Ministry of Justice, the others were
prosecutors and judges of the special courts or the Volksgerichtshöfe of Nazi
Germany. The trial lasted from March 5 to December 4, 1947.
Criminal war judges tried
"Punishment " of the murderers :
Shameful, true ?
Another one
Globke and Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick in Bratislava, 1941 Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 – 13 February 1973) was a German lawyer, high-ranking civil servant and politician who served as Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery in West Germany from 28 October 1953 to 15 October 1963. During World War II, Globke, a Ministerialdirigent in the Office for Jewish Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, wrote a legal annotation on the anti-semitic Nuremberg Race Laws that did not express any objection to the discrimination against Jews, and placed the Nazi Party on a firmer legal ground, setting the path to The Holocaust. Globke later had a controversial career as Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the West German Chancellery. In this role he was responsible for running the Chancellery, recommending the people who were appointed to roles in the government, coordinating the government's work, and for the establishment and oversight of the West German intelligence service and for all matters of national security.
Globke, Wilhelm Frick and Wilhelm Stuckart performing Nazi salute, 1941 Globke became a powerful éminence grise of the West German government, and was widely regarded as one of most influential public officials in the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Globke had a major role in shaping the course and structure of the state and West Germany's alignment with the United States. He was also instrumental in West Germany's anti-communist policies at the domestic and international level and in the western intelligence community, and was the German government's main liaison with NATO and other western intelligence services, especially the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During his lifetime, his role in the Nazi state was only partially known.West Germany after WWII was full of nazis, in all her official and civil organizations, especially in the Government.As someone said . " Germans only regret losing the war".
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