Word: huppenkothen
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...charge of tracking down the conspirators was veteran SS Agent Walter Huppenkothen. Last week, Huppenkothen, 44, tight-lipped and cold-eyed, stood trial in a Munich court. The charges against him: torture and murder of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and five other July 20 conspirators...
...Schnapps & Blutwurst. The Führer's revenge, as executed by Huppenkothen, was aired by broadcast from the Munich courtroom last week, for all Germans to hear...
...show how Huppenkothen made a farce out of a legal proceeding, the prosecution produced a surprise witness, Otto Thornbeck, who presided at Canaris' trial, and since the war has been conducting a quiet, respectable law practice in Nüirnberg. Said Thornbeck: "I submitted to the law in force at that time." He testified that under Huppenkothen's direction, conspiracy trials took three hours. Defendants were allowed no lawyers, got no bill of charges. Instead, Huppenkothen shouted the accusation at them, permitted a brief answer period. Then the death sentence was imposed, and next day the prisoners were...
...Torture. Huppenkothen coolly asserted his innocence, insisted he had never seen atrocities or torture chambers. It was Hitler's fault; he had decreed both the manner of trial and execution...
Munich judges and jury agreed that within the limits of Hitlerian law then governing Germany, the trials of Canaris and fellow conspirators were legal. Huppenkothen was acquitted of murder. But he was found guilty of using torture, sentenced to 3½ years in prison...
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