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Landgericht Kassel - 28.04.1961

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Case Description: (Beihilfe zum Mord) - Involvement of two German police officers in the mass murder of Jews in Smolewitsche (Смолеви́чи) and Sluzk (Слуцк) in Belarus - court considers whether the defendants could have disobeyed orders or whether that would have endangered their lives - the court acquitts one of the defendants due to lack of evidence and finds that the other had acted under duress (Befehlsnotstand)

§§ 49 a.F., 3, 211, 52 StGB, Art. 23b & c, 43, 46, 50 HLKO

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Latitude: 51.3114

Longitude: 9.49567

Source: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, HStAM Bestand 274 Kassel Nr. 1164/1-5

Link: https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-nazi-police-officers-confess-mass-killing-of-jews-in-slutzk