Punishment of Germans, by Third Reich authorities, for mistreatment of Jews (1939-1945)
(Notes for Institute of Historical Review conference talk)
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Alfred M. de Zayas: The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945, Rockport, Maine (US), Picton Press, 2000
p. 19… “when [in 1944] two German soldiers, together with French criminals, intimidated French Jews in Nice and forced them to hand over money and jewels, the German court martial sentenced one of them to death and the other to twelve years imprisonment. The judgment, dated 11 April 1944, declared: ‘the fact that the violence in question was directed against Jews in no way excuses the perpetrators … the German reputation has thereby suffered.” A footnote indicates that “the author has photocopies of some 150 such judgments.”
p. 24… In Russia, a military judge refused to prosecute a German civilian administrator, Inspector Weisheit, who [for reasons I do not know – R. F.] had murdered 75 Jews. “His attitude was highly disapproved of by his superiors, and he was removed from the case. In the criminal proceedings that followed, however, the indictment was changed from murder to manslaughter and the new judge sentenced Inspector Weisheit only to a demotion and two years imprisonment. Shortly thereafter, Weisheit was sent to the front as a private and fell in combat.”
(...)Robert Faurisson: “Interview with Storia Illustrata” (Italy), published in English translation in The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1981
[http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p319_Faurisson.html]
p. 369, footnote 45… “texts and facts abound which prove that the German authorities forbade and punished … excesses, even when Jews were the victims. I will quote only one text and two facts. This text is of general von Roques dated 29 July 1944, on the Russian front (document NOKW- 1620). As to facts, they are reported in document NOKW-501. Here is the first fact: in the spring of 1944 at Budapest, a lieutenant killed a Jewess who wished to denounce him for having [ordered the confiscation of] some of her property, along with some of his men. A German military tribunal condemned the officer to death and he was executed, while several of his men and NCOs were condemned to long terms in prison. Here is the second fact: near … Rostov, USSR two soldiers were condemned to death by a German military tribunal (and executed?) for having killed the only Jewish inhabitant of a village. One finds these examples and many other facts of the same genre in the 42ndand final volume of the IMT Nuremberg transcripts.”
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Two German soldiers were sentenced to death for the rape of two Jewesses.
(Source: Interrogation of Field Marshal List, Centre de documentation juive contemporaine de Paris, fiche CCC VII / 41-44, p. 2599)
On 23 February, 1942, in the Ukraine, two members of the Wehrmacht, Erich Nees and Michael Lenne, committed a robbery. In their defense, the soldiers argued that they had robbed from Jews. The military tribunal replied that this was not relevant. One was sentenced to death, the other to eight years in prison.
(Reference: Vincent Reynouard, Une Autre Image d’Hitler et du National-Socialisme, Diffusion V.H.O., Berchem, Belgium, 2000, p. 18-19)
http://robertfaurisson.blogspo…rmans-by-third-reich.html