Nazi Judges Sn The Dock
(Rec. 1.0.) NUREMBERG, Mar. 5. The trial opened before a United States military tribunal of 15 Nazi judges and lawyers accused of displaying political and racial prejudice in their judicial activities and thereby being responsible for murders and atrocities. There were additional charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The principal accused is elderly Franz Schlegelberger, acting-Minister c- Justice from 1942. previously Secretary of State to the Ministry of Justice. Two of the accused formerly sat in the Ministry of Justice where they are now being tried. The prosecutor (Brigadier-General Telford Taylor) described the accuseds’ activities as “an unholy masquerade.”
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Northern Advocate, 6 March 1947, Page 5
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