Institution
People's Court (Germany)
The People's Court was a special court set up in Nazi Germany in 1934 to try treason and other political offences outside the ordinary justice system. Under its president Roland Freisler from 1942 it held show trials, notably of the 20 July plotters and the White Rose students, and passed more than 5,000 death sentences.
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