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  • 2 - The Legal Framework

  • Raffael Scheck, Colby College, Maine
  • Book:
    Love between Enemies
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    19 November 2020, pp 53-92

  • Summary

    Surveys the laws and procedures for the POWs, who came in front of military tribunals, and the German women, who usually had to stand a public trial at a special court, an institution set up to repress and ruthlessly punish dissenting behavior. Briefly touches on trials against civilian men, including trials for homosexual acts.

  • 5 - The Trials

  • Raffael Scheck, Colby College, Maine
  • Book:
    Love between Enemies
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    19 November 2020, pp 206-248

  • Summary

    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.