Weissenburg pogrom trial
In the Weißenburg pogrom trial, those responsible for the 1938 pogrom against the Jewish population of the city of Treuchtlingen were convicted, which was one of the November pogroms in the German Reich in 1938. The trial took place from 1946 to 1947 in Weißenburg in Bavaria . It was the largest pogrom process in the American zone of occupation to date .
A total of 57 people were on trial, including eight women and several children. Women played less of a role in pogroms elsewhere. Eleven defendants were acquitted, 46 people were sentenced to four years in prison . One of the main perpetrators belonged to Michael Gerstner , district leader of the Nazi Party and mayor of White Castle, protested his innocence, but the banner leader of the SA Georg Sauber and the obersturmbannführer been charged Wilhelm Dorner. Andreas Günter, then Mayor of Treuchtlingen, was among the other defendants .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz: The history of the Third Reich , p. 142f, ISBN 3406467652 .
- ^ "Collective barbarism": The pogrom of November 9, 1938 was not only prepared by SA : www.welt.de, published on November 10, 1998 in der Welt , by Johann Althausr; Retrieved March 18, 2013.