:33:03
Thank you.
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Now, would you please describe for us
the changes in criminal law?
:33:11
It was characterized by...
:33:13
an ever-increasing inflation
of the death penalty.
:33:17
Sentences were passed
against defendants...
:33:20
just because they were Poles, or Jews,
or politically undesirable.
:33:26
Novel National Socialist measures
were introduced.
:33:30
Among them...
:33:31
sexual sterilization for those
who were categorized as asocial.
:33:36
Did it become necessary for judges...
:33:38
to wear any distinctive mark
on their robes in 1935?
:33:43
The so-called Fuehrer's Decree...
:33:45
required judges to wear the insignia
of the swastika on their robes.
:33:50
- Did you wear such an insignia?
- No.
:33:53
I would have been ashamed to wear it.
:33:55
Did you resign in 1935?
:33:58
Yes, sir.
:33:59
Did Ernst Janning wear a swastika
on his robe?
:34:06
Yes.
:34:09
That's all. Thank you.
:34:15
Herr Rolfe.
:34:27
You used the phrase, "What was necessary
for the protection of the country. "
:34:34
Will you explain for the tribunal...
:34:36
the conditions in Germany at the time
National Socialism came to power?
:34:40
What conditions?
:34:44
Would you say
there was widespread hunger?
:34:47
Yes.
:34:48
Would you say there was internal disunity?
:34:50
Yes.
:34:52
Was there a Communist Party?
:34:53
Yes.
:34:54
Was it the third-largest party in Germany?
:34:57
Yes.
:34:59
Would you say...