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The Justiz und NS-Verbrechen project was started in 1968 by Prof. Dr. C.F. Rüter at the Institute of Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. Between 1968 and 1982 the first 22 volumes appeared, covering the trial judgments passed by West-German courts between 1945 and 1965. In 1998 a beginning was made with the publication of the post-1965 judgments and from 2002 the East-German judgments were included in the project. With the publication of volume 49 of the West German series the project is now complete as far as the book publications are concerned. The East German series has been completed in 2010 with the publication of the index volume on the 14 volumes of trial judgments. Trial judgments rendered after 1 January 2012 will only be published in the on-line edition: www.junsv.nl In 1999 a website carrying an overview of the post-war German 'NS-trials' was set up, to which overviews of the American 'Dachau Trials' and the war crimes' trials in the Netherlands (in German only: see ....) were later added. The editors |
Prof. Dr. Christiaan Frederik Rüter (1938) Head of the Justiz
und NS-Verbrechen project. Graduated at the University of Amsterdam
in 1962. From 1962 to 1966 he studied at the Max Planck Institute for
Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau. He was
Senior Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam from
1972 until 2003 and is deputy judge at the Amsterdam Criminal Court and
member of the advisory board of the Austrian Forschungsstelle
Nachkriegsjustiz (Vienna). |
Dr. Dick W. de Mildt (1957) Historian and co-editor of the series; studied modern history at Leiden University; graduated 1987. Worked between 1987 and 2006 at the Institute of Criminal Law of the University of Amsterdam. Earned his Ph.D. in 1996 with a dissertation on the so-called Euthanasia and Aktion Reinhard trials ('In the Name of the People'). Next to his work for the JuNSV project, De Mildt has his own research bureau, EX POST FACTO |
The JuNSV project is
supervised by the Foundation for the Study of National Socialist Crimes,
Amsterdam. For all questions relating to the project please contact us at
junsv@expostfacto.nl
In order to avoid misunderstandings, please note that the information given under the heading 'subject of the proceeding' in the case descriptions on the following pages, only lists the criminal offense(s) of which the defendants had been accused. Whether or not, and particularly also, to what extent these accusations were considered proven by the courts can be concluded only by studying the trial judgments themselves. The case descriptions do not take up any position with regard to either indictment or judgment. They are merely intended to offer an impression of the subject matter of the proceedings and of their outcome.
If you cannot find the particular case you are looking for here, there may be several reasons: 1. The case did not involve fatalities. Only cases dealing with NS-crimes which ended in the death of at least one of the victims are listed here. 2. Due to German privacy laws, many of the names of defendants (and those of the other trial participants - i.e. judges, witnesses etc.) had to be anonymized. Thus, you will often not find their names in full in the case descriptions listed. 3. The case did not result in a final verdict. Again there may be several reasons for this: a. The State Prosecutor terminated the proceedings (i.e. there was no trial) b. The court terminated the trial proceedings before a verdict could be reached c. The defendant was discharged before the case came to court. When you are in doubt, please contact us. |
Ordering single trial judgments
To a limited extent, single copies of West and East German trial judgments can be ordered by academic researchers, university students, journalists, or other interested individuals. The documents will be made available in PDF. All published
trial judgments of the selected case number will be included in your
order. Please note that distribution or publication of the documents is not permitted in any form whatsoever without prior consent in writing of the copyright owner: the Foundation for the Study of National-Socialist Crimes, Amsterdam. All
published trial judgments of the selected case number will be included
in your order. Please also note that all judgments are in the original German language. There exists no automatic and immediate right on the fulfillment of your order. Generally speaking, the Foundation responsible for the publication of the East and West German trial judgment series will make every effort to meet with your request. Since the documents will have to be compiled on a single basis, constraints in terms of staff and time available will have to be taken into consideration, however.
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