Trial of the 20th of July plotters against Hitler - Berlin, Germany - 7-8 August 1944. Roland Freisler, President of the People’s Court, denounces Dr. Josef Wirmer, a German jurist and resistance fighter, as a coward.
Roland Freisler, turned trials into brutal theater. Shouting, mocking, and humiliating defendants, he handed down thousands of death sentences. In 1944, his questioning of resistance members became infamous—show trials designed to terrify. This video captures how Freisler used law as a weapon to crush dissent in Hitler’s Germany.
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