Roland Freisler: Difference between revisions

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As a serious Nazi, Freisler used his position to advance the Nazification of German law, starting the move to ban sexual relations between Jews and Germans and introducing an amendment allowing juveniles to be executed. His racism and support for the Nazi ideology was so great that he even stated the Jim Crow segregation laws in place in the USA at the time were "primitive" as he felt they didn't do enough to oppress black people. He was also present at the 1942 Wannsee Conference which started the Holocaust in order to provide legal advice on the destruction of Jewry throughout the world.

When Hitler made [[Otto Georg Thierack]] the justice minister, Freisler replaced him as president of the people's court, a position he used to try and utterly destroy crime with almost no chance of acquittal to the point where just being charged in Freisler's court was pretty much a death sentence, particularly as Freisler acted as judge and jury, meaning the person being prosecuted would almost always be found guilty. In fact, 90% of defendants in his court were sentenced to death, including members of the White Rose Movement (a group that organised protests against the Nazi regime), who were executed by beheading, and several men who attempted to kill Hitler during The July Plot, who he personally attacked and sentenced to hang.

When Hitler made [[Otto Georg Thierack]] the justice minister, Freisler replaced him as president of the people's court, a position he used to try and utterly destroy crime with almost no chance of acquittal to the point where just being charged in Freisler's court was pretty much a death sentence, particularly as Freisler acted as judge and jury, meaning the person being prosecuted would almost always be found guilty. In fact, 90% of defendants in his court were sentenced to death, including members of the White Rose Movement (a group that organised protests against the Nazi regime), who were executed by beheading, and several men who attempted to kill Hitler during The July Plot, who he personally attacked and sentenced to hang. He once ordered the torture and execution of Helmuth Hübener for writing anti-Nazi leaflets, even though Hübener was only seventeen and the [[Gestapo]] had recommended he be spared. Freisler was also known to alter the transcripts of trials to make people seem more guilty.

In 1945, Freisler's court was forced to evacuate during a trial due to an air raid. As the others escaped, Freisler stopped to gather up court files, only for a bomb to hit the justice ministry. Three accounts of his death exist. The first states that the blast knocked over a masonry column, crushing Freisler to death. The second states that a piece of shrapnel hit him and he bled to death in the street. The final account states that the bomb came through the roof as Freisler was trying to escort others in the courtroom out and obliterated him. Either way, his death was barely mourned and he was buried in an unmarked grave.

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[[Category:Anti-Semetic]]

[[Category:Genocidal]]

[[Category:Torturer]]

[[Category:Sadists]]

[[Category:Fallen Heroes]]

[[Category:Corrupt Officials]]

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 As a serious Nazi, Freisler used his position to advance the Nazification of German law, starting the move to ban sexual relations between Jews and Germans and introducing an amendment allowing juveniles to be executed. His racism and support for the Nazi ideology was so great that he even stated the Jim Crow segregation laws in place in the USA at the time were "primitive" as he felt they didn't do enough to oppress black people. He was also present at the 1942 Wannsee Conference which started the Holocaust in order to provide legal advice on the destruction of Jewry throughout the world.
-When Hitler made [[Otto Georg Thierack]] the justice minister, Freisler replaced him as president of the people's court, a position he used to try and utterly destroy crime with almost no chance of acquittal to the point where just being charged in Freisler's court was pretty much a death sentence, particularly as Freisler acted as judge and jury, meaning the person being prosecuted would almost always be found guilty. In fact, 90% of defendants in his court were sentenced to death, including members of the White Rose Movement (a group that organised protests against the Nazi regime), who were executed by beheading, and several men who attempted to kill Hitler during The July Plot, who he personally attacked and sentenced to hang.
+When Hitler made [[Otto Georg Thierack]] the justice minister, Freisler replaced him as president of the people's court, a position he used to try and utterly destroy crime with almost no chance of acquittal to the point where just being charged in Freisler's court was pretty much a death sentence, particularly as Freisler acted as judge and jury, meaning the person being prosecuted would almost always be found guilty. In fact, 90% of defendants in his court were sentenced to death, including members of the White Rose Movement (a group that organised protests against the Nazi regime), who were executed by beheading, and several men who attempted to kill Hitler during The July Plot, who he personally attacked and sentenced to hang. He once ordered the torture and execution of Helmuth Hübener for writing anti-Nazi leaflets, even though Hübener was only seventeen and the [[Gestapo]] had recommended he be spared. Freisler was also known to alter the transcripts of trials to make people seem more guilty.
 In 1945, Freisler's court was forced to evacuate during a trial due to an air raid. As the others escaped, Freisler stopped to gather up court files, only for a bomb to hit the justice ministry. Three accounts of his death exist. The first states that the blast knocked over a masonry column, crushing Freisler to death. The second states that a piece of shrapnel hit him and he bled to death in the street. The final account states that the bomb came through the roof as Freisler was trying to escort others in the courtroom out and obliterated him. Either way, his death was barely mourned and he was buried in an unmarked grave.
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 [[Category:Anti-Semetic]]
 [[Category:Genocidal]]
+[[Category:Torturer]]
+[[Category:Sadists]]
+[[Category:Fallen Heroes]]
+[[Category:Corrupt Officials]]