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5 - The Trials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2020

Raffael Scheck
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Colby College, Maine
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Analyzes the military tribunals and special court trials. While the former became harsher in response to massive steering from the highest places (the High Command of the Army and Hitler personally), the latter became more lenient, partly in reaction to an intervention by Hitler in 1942 that denied women agency and therefore allowed the courts to be more lenient, especially if the woman had a forgiving soldier husband. While the military tribunals proceeded under international observation, the women were often interrogated and intimidated by the Gestapo. Their confessions counted almost always as proof even if the prisoner denied the charges.

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Love between Enemies
Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II
, pp. 206 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • The Trials
  • Raffael Scheck, Colby College, Maine
  • Book: Love between Enemies
  • Online publication: 06 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894821.007
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  • The Trials
  • Raffael Scheck, Colby College, Maine
  • Book: Love between Enemies
  • Online publication: 06 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894821.007
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  • The Trials
  • Raffael Scheck, Colby College, Maine
  • Book: Love between Enemies
  • Online publication: 06 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894821.007
Available formats
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