[Nazi Justice Trial Transcripts]

Identifier
9933041391804146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Scope and Content

The file contains the verdicts of Johann Pavlasek (born on 2 July 1922 in Morawka) and Wenzel Balaš (born on 31 July 1926 in Klein Kunzendorf), two young men from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. After hearing about groups of partisans in Slovakia the defendenants made the decision to join them. After crossing the border from the Protectorate to Slovakia they were stopped by a military patrol. The patrol were on the side of the partisans and took the men to their camp in the woods. After some time with the group the defendants decided to return home. After arriving at home Balaš handed himself in to the police. Both men were found guilty of having illegally crossed the German-Slovakian border. Furthermore, Pavlasek possessed munition without permission. Pavlasek and Balaš were both sentenced to death in 1944.

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Mode of Access : WWW

Note(s)

  • Electronic access only

  • Electronic text and image data Tel Aviv Sifriyyat Wiener (Tel Aviv) 2018

  • Title viewed 20.02.2020

People

  • Pavlasek, Johann 1922-1942?

Subjects

  • Capital punishment--Bohemia and Moravia.
  • Guerrillas--Slovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Law and legislation.
  • Trial transcripts.
  • National socialism and justice--Germany.
  • Criminal justice, Administration of--Germany--History--1933-1945

Places

  • Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
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