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The People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshof pronounced [ˈfɔlksɡəˌʁɪçt͡shoːf] , acronymed to VGH) was a Sondergericht ("special court") of Nazi Germany...

be described as of high racial quality. Berthold was tried in the Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court") by Roland Freisler on 10 August and was one of eight...

1944, he was arrested, and on 21 August was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof, with Roland Freisler presiding. The recordings of the show trial attest...

Ulrich von Hassell before the Nazi Volksgerichtshof, which condemned him to death in September 1944. Josef Wirmer is at the far right in the photo....

sentenced to death by the Sondergericht ("special court") People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) and executed. Helmuth Hübener, born in Hamburg on 7 January 1925,...

Maaß and Gustav Dahrendorf, sentenced to death by Roland Freisler's Volksgerichtshof. He was killed next to Maaß at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 20 October...

and confined indefinitely without trial. A new type of court, the Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court"), was established in 1934 to deal with political...

General Erich Hoepner at the Volksgerichtshof. In 1941, Hoepner called for an extermination war against the Slavs in the Soviet Union....

Court" (Volksgerichtshof). On 7 August 1944, Witzleben was in the first group of accused conspirators to be brought before the Volksgerichtshof. Ravaged...

several of his fellow régime opponents, before the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof), presided over by Roland Freisler. Because no evidence could be found...

On 8 September, after a two-day trial at the German People's Court (Volksgerichtshof), over which Roland Freisler presided, he was sentenced to death and...

offenses – would only be tried by a newly established People's Court (Volksgerichtshof). The People's Court later became associated with the number of death...

National Library catalogue Photograph of von Wartenburg before the Volksgerichtshof Archived 2019-02-11 at the Wayback Machine Biography: Marion Gräfin...

specified by decrees of Politburo CPSU. NKVD troikas' trials. The Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) of Nazi Germany that convicted people who were suspected...

later, his family was also taken into custody. On 8 August 1944, the Volksgerichtshof sentenced him to death in a show trial, and Von Hagen was hanged later...

wife of Roland Freisler, the infamous judge and chairman of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof (People's Court), who died in 1945 during an air raid in Berlin. She...

December, he was sentenced to death at the German "People's Court" (Volksgerichtshof). He was beheaded at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 23 January 1945...

with her husband and two children. After a trial at the notorious Volksgerichtshof (Hitler's extra-constitutional "People's Court"), she was found guilty...

resistance fighter, he was active in Berlin and sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof in 1944. Arthur Sodtke was born in Inowrazlaw, Province of Posen (Inowrocław...

was followed extremely strictly. For example, in a People's Court ("Volksgerichtshof") trial in Vienna, an old, seriously ill, and frail woman was sentenced...