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In this sense, the word Nazi was a hypocorism of the German male name Igna(t)z (itself a variation of the name Ignatius)—Igna(t)z being a common name at the time in Bavaria, the area from which the NSDAP emerged. [17] [18] In the 1920s, political opponents of the NSDAP in the German labour movement seized on this.
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War.
As to the National Socialists, the leading Nazi jurist Hans Frank boasted at the 1934 Reichsparteitag of "reckless implementation of capital punishment" as a special acquisition of the Nazi regime. Under Hitler nearly 40 000 death sentences were handed down, mainly by the Volksgerichtshof and also by the Reich Military Tribunal.
Popular radio commentator; head of the news division of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. [avalon 5] Sentenced to 9 years of hard labor by a denazification court in 1947. Released early in 1950. [16] Fritzsche had made himself a career within German radio, because his voice was similar to Goebbels'. [17] Died 27 September 1953. Walther Funk: I: G: G: G
Josef Schütz, known in the German press as Josef S., [73] was a Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard who was stationed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In June 2022, at the age of 101, Schütz was handed a five year sentence after a criminal trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust during World War II ...
The Nazi Party, [b] officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [c] or NSDAP), was a far-right [10] [11] [12] political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
Beate Zschaepe, 43, showed no reaction as the judge read out her sentence at the end of one of the most closely watched court cases in Germany's post-war history. "What the perpetrators did cannot ...
The courts issued and carried out far more death sentences than before the Nazis took power. [198] People who were convicted of three or more offences—even petty ones—could be deemed habitual offenders and jailed indefinitely. [199] People such as prostitutes and pickpockets were judged to be inherently criminal and a threat to the community.