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That’s it ? Name calling ?
Who reads this totally Unrelated babble ? I hope you posted this to me by mistake. Otherwise, you just wasted your time.This is what happens when your Education System fails you. You repeat History's mistakes and are too stupid and uneducated to know it. IOW, you're a dimocrap scumbag, scumbag
The “People’s Court”
Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Since its founding, the National Socialist German Workers Party fought against the rule of law. The National Socialist takeover also represented a victory of authoritarian criminal law over liberal criminal law. The creation of Special Courts (Sondergerichte) in 1933 and the “People’s Court” (Volksgerichtshof) in 1934 were important milestones.
With Roland Freisler’s appointment as president of the “People’s Court” in 1942, the trials lost their last semblance of legitimate legal proceedings. Freisler humiliated and ridiculed the defendants. The wording of statues was systematically misinterpreted; death sentences were “justified” on grounds presented on less than two pages of text. The “People’s Court” committed judicial murders.
After 1938, all criminal acts and, after 1939, all minor offenses could be prosecuted before the Special Courts. These courts consisted of three professional judges, and the verdict they rendered were the first and final stage of appeal.
Wartime criminal law allowed the death penalty for nearly every criminal act. Most important were sections 2 and 4 of the ordinance on “antisocial parasites,” which allowed the death penalty for acts committed during a blackout or while “exploiting wartime conditions.” The Special Courts interpreted wartime criminal law so liberally that even petty criminals, first-time offenders, and infrequent offenders were sentenced to death in large numbers.
According to section 1 of the ordinance on “antisocial parasites,” “looters” who committed thefts during or after air raids received mandatory death sentences. Each Special Court formed what were known as “looter” tribunals in 1942. These tribunals convened after severe air raids and handed down death sentences in summary proceedings, and the executions that took place immediately after the raids were announced on red posters as a deterrent. The defendants had no opportunity to prove their innocence or otherwise defend themselves.
