Trial of Nazi SS prosecutor in 1950s

Identifier
irn1004825
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.526
  • RG-60.1547
Dates
1 Jan 1951 - 31 Dec 1951, 1 Jan 1955 - 31 Dec 1955
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung

Scope and Content

Part of a 1955 documentary about the German trial of an official responsible for the Nazi-era persecution of high-level resistance members including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Oster, Wilhelm Canaris, and others in April 1945. Nazi SS prosecutor Walter Huppenkothen was tried in West Germany in the 1950s and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. He was acquitted of murder and died in 1978.

Subjects

  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • RESISTERS/RESISTANCE
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
  • TRIALS

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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