Английская Википедия:Einsatzgruppen trial
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Expand German Шаблон:Infobox The Шаблон:Lang trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al.) was the ninth of the twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity that the US authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before US military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal. They took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The twelve US trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" or, more formally, as the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).
The accused were 24 former SS leaders who, as commanders of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD, bore responsibility for the crimes committed by the Einsatzgruppen in the occupied Soviet Union. The indictment was based on the Einsatzgruppen reports of more than a million victims.[1]
The trial marked the first use of the term "genocide" in legal context. The term was used by both the prosecution and by the judges in the verdict.[2]
The case
The Шаблон:Lang were SS mobile death squads, operating behind the front line in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. From 1941 to 1945, they murdered around 2 million people; 1.3 million Jews, up to 250,000 Romani, and around 500,000 so-called "partisans", people with disabilities, political commissars, Slavs, homosexuals and others.Шаблон:Sfn[3] The 24 defendants in this trial were all commanders of these Шаблон:Lang units and faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The tribunal stated in its judgment:
The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal II-A, were Michael Musmanno (presiding judge and Naval officer) from Pennsylvania, John J. Speight from Alabama, and Richard D. Dixon from North Carolina. The Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution was Telford Taylor; the Chief Prosecutor for this case was Benjamin B. Ferencz. The indictment was filed initially on July 3 and then amended on July 29, 1947, to also include the defendants Steimle, Braune, Haensch, Strauch, Klingelhöfer, and von Radetzky. The trial lasted from September 29, 1947, until April 10, 1948.
Indictment
- Crimes against humanity through persecutions on political, racial, and religious grounds, murder, extermination, imprisonment, and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations, including German nationals and nationals of other countries, as part of an organized scheme of genocide.
- War crimes for the same reasons, and for wanton destruction and devastation not justified by military necessity.
- Membership of criminal organizations, the SS, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), or the Gestapo, which had been declared criminal organizations previously in the international Nuremberg Military Tribunals.
All defendants were charged on all counts. All defendants pleaded "not guilty". The tribunal found all of them guilty on all counts, except Rühl and Graf, who were found guilty only on count 3. Fourteen defendants were sentenced to death. However, only four of them were executed. Nine of those condemned had their sentences reduced. Another, Eduard Strauch, couldn't be executed since he had been transferred to Belgian custody after his conviction.
Defendants
Name | Photo | Function | Sentence | Outcome, 1951 amnesty |
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Otto Ohlendorf | Файл:Otto Ohlendorf at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Gruppenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | Executed on June 7, 1951[4] |
Heinz Jost | Файл:Heinz Jost 09936.jpg | SS-Brigadeführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A | Life imprisonment | Commuted to 10 years; released in December 1951; died in 1964 |
Erich Naumann | Файл:Erich Naumann at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Brigadeführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | Executed on June 7, 1951[4] |
Otto Rasch | Файл:Otto Rasch at the Nuremberg Trials.jpg | SS-Brigadeführer; member of the SD and the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe C | Removed from the trial on February 5, 1948 due to medical reasonsШаблон:Ref | Died on November 1, 1948 |
Erwin Schulz | Файл:Erwin Schulz at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Brigadeführer; member of the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C | 20 years | Commuted to 15 years; released on January 9, 1954; died in 1981 |
Franz Six | Файл:Six-franz-nuremberg.jpg | SS-Brigadeführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Vorkommando Moskau of Einsatzgruppe B | 20 years | Commuted to 10 years; released in October 1952; died in 1975 |
Paul Blobel | Файл:Paul-Blobel.jpg | SS-Standartenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | Executed on June 7, 1951[4] |
Walter Blume | Файл:Walter Blume at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Standartenführer; member of the SD and the Gestapo; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 7a of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | Commuted to 25 years; released in March 1955; died in 1974 |
Martin Sandberger | Файл:Martin Sandberger 09924.jpg | SS-Standartenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A | Death by hanging | Commuted to life imprisonment; released on May 9, 1958; died in 2010 |
Шаблон:Interlanguage link | Файл:Willi Seibert at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Standartenführer; member of the SD; deputy chief of Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | Commuted to 15 years; released on May 14, 1954; died in 1976 |
Eugen Steimle | Файл:Eugen Steimle at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Standartenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 7a of Einsatzgruppe B and of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | Commuted to 20 years; released in June 1954; died in 1987 |
Ernst Biberstein | Файл:Ernst Biberstein at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | Commuted to life imprisonment; released on May 9, 1958; died in 1986 |
Werner Braune | Файл:Braune Werner.jpg | SS-Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD and the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 11b of Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | Executed on June 7, 1951[4] |
Шаблон:Interlanguage link | Файл:Walter Haensch at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | Commuted to 15 years; released in August 1955; died in 1994 |
Gustav Adolf Nosske | Файл:Gustav Nosske at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Obersturmbannführer; member of the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D | Life imprisonment | Commuted to 10 years; released in December 1951; died in 1986 |
Шаблон:Interlanguage link | Файл:Adolf Ott at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | Commuted to life imprisonment; released on May 9, 1958; died in 1973 |
Eduard Strauch | Файл:Eduard Strauch.jpg | SS-Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe A | Death by hangingШаблон:Ref; handed over to Belgian authorities and received another death sentence; died prior to execution on 11 September 1955 | |
Emil Haussmann | Файл:Emil Haussmann at the Nuremberg Trials.jpg | SS-Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; officer of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D | Committed suicide before the arraignment on July 31, 1947 | |
Waldemar Klingelhöfer | Файл:Waldemar Klingelhöfer at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Vorkommando Moskau of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | Commuted to life imprisonment; released in December 1956; died in 1977 |
Lothar Fendler | Файл:Lothar Fendler at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; second highest-ranking officer of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C | 10 yearsШаблон:Ref | Commuted to 8 years; released in March 1951; died in 1983 |
Шаблон:Interlanguage link | Файл:Waldemar von Radetzky at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; deputy chief of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C | 20 years | Released; died in 1990 |
Шаблон:Interlanguage link | Файл:Felix Ruehl at the Nuremberg Trials.jpg | SS-Hauptsturmführer; member of the Gestapo; officer of Sonderkommando 10b of Einsatzgruppe D | 10 yearsШаблон:Ref | Released; died in 1982 |
Heinz Schubert | Файл:Heinz Schubert2.jpg | SS-Obersturmführer; member of the SD; adjutant to Otto Ohlendorf in Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | Commuted to 10 years; released in December 1951; died in 1987 |
Шаблон:Interlanguage link | Файл:Mathias Graf at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG | SS-Untersturmführer; member of the SD; officer in Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C | Time servedШаблон:Ref | |
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The presiding judge, Michael Musmanno, explained his rationale for sentencing while testifying at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the 1960s. He had chosen to impose death sentences in all cases where the defendant had actively participated in murder and failed to present mitigating circumstances. For example, although Erwin Schulz confessed to presiding over the execution of 90 to 100 men in Ukraine, he received a 20-year sentence since he had protested an order to exterminate all Jewish women and children, and immediately resigned when he was unable to get the order retracted. Superior orders was rejected as a defense.[5]
Of the 14 death sentences, only four were carried out; the others were commuted to prison terms of varying lengths in 1951. In 1958, all convicts were released from prison.
Quotes from the judgment
The Nuremberg Military Tribunal in its judgement stated the following: Шаблон:Blockquote
See also
- Commissar Order, an order stating that Soviet political commissars were to be shot on the battlefield.
- List of Einsatzgruppen with all known Einsatzgruppen
- Nuremberg executions
Notes
References
- Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, Nürnberg, October 1946 – April 1949, Volume IV, ("Green Series) (the "Einsatzgruppen case")
- Description from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Einsatzgruppen trials. Another description.
- Ferencz, Benjamin, “A Prosecutor's Personal Account: From Nuremberg to Rome", Journal of International Affairs, 52: No. 2, Columbia University, Spring 1999
- Benjamin Ferencz, Mémoires de Ben, procureur à Nuremberg et avocat de la Paix mondiale, Michalon, Paris, 2012 (French).
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
External links
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- ↑ Benjamin Ferencz: Opening Statement of the Prosecution, vorgetragen am 29. September 1947. In: Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. 4. District of Columbia 1950, S. 30.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 "Five death sentences were confirmed: the sentence against Oswald Pohl, as well as those passed against the leaders of the Mobile Killing Units, Paul Blobel, Werner Braune, Erich Neumann, and Otto Ohrlendorf. . . . In the early morning hours of 7 June, the [] Nazi criminals were hanged in the Landesburg prison courtyard." Norbert Frei, Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration. Columbia University Press, 2002. p. 165 and p. 173
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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