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Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1050

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal

Date(s): 1968-1970

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal, 1968-1970, comprise a trial judgement against 5 former members of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in which the state court of Osnabrück found 3 of the defendants guilty of mass murder and 2 of being accomplices to mass murder in Italy in 1943, 1968, and a trial judgement of the appeal of the 5 defendants, in which the Bundesgerichtshof upheld the appeal on the grounds that the period of 20 years under the statute of limitations had lapsed, 1970.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

A detailed description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

These documents are believed to have been deposited through an employee of the Wiener Library from the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen, Ludwigsburg.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Homicide | Crime
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War crime trials | Trials | Legal procedure | Administration of justice
War crimes | Humanitarian law
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Osnabrück | Weser-Ems | Lower Saxony | Germany | Western Europe | Europe