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| |  | | Hans Fritzsche | | | context : | Nazi Germany  | | judgement place : | IMT - Nurenberg | | status : | Acquitted | | particulars : | Acquitted by the IMT, Fritzsche was ultimately condemned to 9 years in prison by a German Tribunal | | position : | Journalist-Propagandist |
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| | | | Hans Fritzsche was arrested in May 1945.
Charged on counts 1 (common plan or conspiracy), 3 (war crimes) and 4 (crimes against humanity), he pleaded not guilty.
It became apparent to the Tribunal that Hans Fritzsche had never been to the fore in pushing for the persecution or extermination of the Jews, and that on two instances he had even attempted to stop publication of the anti-Semitic newspaper of Julius Streicher, “Der Stürmer”. His propaganda, according to the Tribunal, did not incite Germans to commit atrocities against the people of the conquered territories.
As a result, on October 1st, 1946, Hans Fritzsche was acquitted by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and immediately released.
The Soviet judge Major General Nikitchenko was opposed to his acquittal and filed a dissenting opinion. | |    | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Germany | | | date of birth : | | | 21.04.1900 | | | judgement period : | | | 20.11.1945 - 10.10.1946 | | | charges : | | | Aggression
Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 25.03.2005 |
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