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...Swedish bishop; of an internationally famous biologist who told a friend that he expected the Third Reich to crumble. All were condemned to death. To be sure, Rehse served only as a member on the bench of one of Hitler's most notorious political judges, "Raving Roland" Freisler, who escaped the Allies' justice by dying in an air raid at the war's end. But the Federal Court noted last year that German judges always act collectively...
Judge Oske's reasoning took another tack. It is one that could, if it is accepted as a precedent, free 45 remaining former Nazi judges and prosecutors from prosecution. Oske insisted that Rehse and his seven fellow judges on Freisler's dreaded Volksgerichtshof did not deliberately subvert the law as then applicable. Thus, while the sentences in which Rehse participated were "inhuman as seen today, in times of war no nation and no state can get along with normal means of defense. Germany was in a life-and-death struggle...
Then Presiding Judge Ronald Freisler pronounced sentence: "Mrs. Klara Z is sentenced to die by the ax for her defeatist attitude and for having insulted the Führer, the German people and the German state...
Herta Breit, aged 11, paints tender little watercolors. Anneliese Freisler, 10, draws a Mrs. Profiteer with a biting touch of social satire. Ed Viet, 12, and Grete Hanus, 13, model little wax figures with a profound sense of rhythm. Franz Probst, 13, has an exciting vision of the Russian Revolution. Grete Blatny, 13, paints a Tyrolese wedding party. These young people are students in the art school of Dr. Frank Cizek in Vienna...
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