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534 WAR CRIMES TRIAL PAPERS: EUTHANASIA CASE, 1947
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This microfilm copy trial document shows the verdict, sentence and trial judgement in a 'Euthanasia Case' appeal against Dr Walter Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main 12.8.1947 Ss 92/47. They were originally found guilty of multiple murder and accessories to multiple murder respectively at the Eichberg nursing home, Hessen, between 1941 and 1945, along with several other defendants at a trial at the LG Frankfurt am Main, 21 Dec 1946-, No. 4 Kls 15/46. The appeal court upheld the verdicts and in the case of Schmidt raised the sentence from life imprisonment to death.



The whole document along with the verdict and trial judgement in the original case is reproduced in the series Justiz und Verbrechen, University of Amsteram, Volume I, 1968



 
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534 Verdict and trial judgement in 'Euthanasia case' appeal by Eugen Schmidt and Helen Schürg, OLG Frankfurt am Main, Ss 92/47
German 34 pages
(12 Aug 1947)
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  Eugen Schmidt
Helen Schürg
War crimes
Euthanasia