GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES
FORMER NAZI MINISTERS SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT NUREMBERG, Dec. 4. An American Military Tribunal found four high officials of the former Nazi Ministry of Justice guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity" and sentenced them to life imprisonment. They were: Franz Schlegelberger, former acting Minister of Justice; Herbert Klemm, former Undersecretary of State for Justice; Oswald Rothaug, a former Nuremberg Criminal Court judge; and Rudolf Oeschey, former president of the special Nuremberg court. The court sentenced five other former Justice officials to 10 years each and one to five years on similar charges, and acquitted a further four former officials. The British United Press correspondent says justice has caught up with the “bloody judge of Nuremberg,” as the Germans called Rothaug, formerly Chief Justice in the Nuremberg Peoples’ Court. Rothaug sent Germans to the axeman’s block without evidence. The American Military Tribunal’s judgment declared that he administered justice “with scheming malevolence. He was and is a sadistic, evil man.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 8
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164GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 8
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