GERMAN JUSTICE
The Vienna "Telegraf" publishes from Berlin an analysis of the official figures of sentences for political and other offences between June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934. During these first twelve months of Nazi rule 212 persons were beheaded out of 214 sentenced to death. • Sentences of arrest, imprisonment, and penal servitude totalling 129,421 years were inflicted. The persons sentenced numbered 280,308. Thus every 203 rd German was punished by the Courts; spread over the total adult population, the total sentences of imprisonment show that on an average every adult German spent one day—to be exact, 23.8 hours—in prison. In addition to the above, 184 persons are described as having been "shot while attempting to escape"; 49,000 are admitted to have been sent to concentration camps. Over 13,000 persons were deprived of their citizenship, and 12,863 persons were sterilised.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 15
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141GERMAN JUSTICE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 15
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