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OMGUS Military Tribunal-Case 9, Nurnberg, Germany. OMT-IX-D-49.

 
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Title
OMGUS Military Tribunal-Case 9, Nurnberg, Germany. OMT-IX-D-49.
Identifier
phgph09
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Description
Label with description of accompanying photo. Description reads: "OMGUS Military Tribunal-Case 9, Nurnberg, Germany. OMT-IX-D-49. At his own request, fifty seven year old Otto Rasch, one of the 23 defendants in the Einsatzgruppen Case, is brought into court on a stretcher so the he could appeal for dismissal of charges against him because of his physical condition. An SS Lieutenant Colonel who commanded one of the infamous "extermination units", he is charged with personal responsibility for the cold-blooded murder of 75,000 Jews, Gypsies, and other "political and racial undesirables" in the Kiev area in 1941, with the shadows of the gallows hanging over him, Rasch developed a bad case of "nerves" with outward manifestations of Parkinson's Disease of severe palsey. Medical authorities, however, do not agree as to the seriousness of the defendant's condition. The stretcher being carried by one of the guards and a German doctor was supported by four chairs at the witness stand."
Date Created
1947
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