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On October 2, 1943, Hans Frank's ordinance "On combating attacks on the German work of reconstruction in the General Government" was announced. It sanctioned the principle of collective responsibility fully applied by the occupying power, providing, among other things, that "instigators and helpers are punishable as perpetrators" and that "an ...
On 14 October 1943, the day of the Sobibór uprising, Bauer unexpectedly drove out to Chełm for supplies. The resistance almost postponed the uprising since Bauer was at the top of the "death list" of SS guards to be assassinated prior to the escape that was created by the leader of the revolt, Alexander Pechersky. The revolt had to start ...
While in Prussia the death penalty was usually applied only in murder cases, the English also executed people for theft, sometimes even in minor cases, under the so-called Bloody Code. [ 14 ] With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871 and the introduction of the national Strafgesetzbuch , abolition was sincerely considered ...
Announcement of the governor of the Warsaw District Ludwig Fischer on November 10, 1941, threatening the death penalty for helping Jews. During the Holocaust in Poland, 1939–1945, German occupation authorities engaged in repressive measures against non-Jewish Polish citizens who helped Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany.
October 24, 1943: Beheading of Leonard George Siffleet. Soldatensender Calais, also known as "Soldiers' Radio Calais", went on the air at 5:57 pm. Operating on the same frequency as Radio Deutschland, Germany's national radio station, Radio Calais would begin transmission whenever Radio Deutschland was off the air during bombing raids. [78]
From 1934 to 1945, the court sentenced 10,980 people to prison and imposed the death penalty on 5,179 more who were convicted of high treason. [5] [6] About 1,000 were acquitted. [7] Prior to the Battle of Stalingrad, there was a higher percentage of cases in which not guilty verdicts were handed down on indictments. In some cases, this was due ...
12 September – World War II: German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from imprisonment, in Operation Eiche. 13 October – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. 17 October – World War II: The last commerce raider, auxiliary cruiser Michel, was sunk off Japan by United States ...
This "provided the legal basis for imposing the death penalty and penitentiary terms on juveniles for the first time in German legal history." [26] Between 1933 and 1945, the Reich's courts sentenced at least 72 German juveniles to death, among them 17-year-old Helmuth Hübener, found guilty of high treason for distributing anti-war leaflets in ...