NS-Unrechtsjustiz im Lande Braunschweig

"Exhibit of the Month" is a series of lectures by volunteers from the Braunschweig Municipal Museum. Every month there is a lecture on an object that is exhibited in the Old Town Hall. The presentation takes place in the Kleine Dornse of the Altstadtrathaus.

From the spring of 1933, theBraunschweig Regional Court was the venue for the Braunschweig Special Court, which, with its verdicts, is to be regarded as the central example of unjust justice in the state of Braunschweig. Around 3,000 sentences were handed down against more than 7,000 men and women from the Free State, including many against critics of the Nazi system. In addition to these sentences, 92 inhumane death sentences were handed down against alleged "pests of the people", including young people like Erna Wazinski. Although he had not yet been called up, 18-year-old Günther Morgenstern was convicted of "draft evasion" and executed by guillotine in Wolfenbüttel.

The role of the more than 20 district courts of the Free State of Braunschweig during the Nazi era has not yet been researched. The speaker's research on the Wolfenbüttel district court is an exception. As a rule, this court punished people for minor offenses. The proportion of political proceedings after 1933 is relatively small.

Judgments against Jews from Amsterdam who were sentenced by military courts, so-called field courts, are also presented. These too have not yet been researched.

Lecture by Arnulf Heinemann.

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