Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht

Index

Index alcohol abuse. See intoxication annihilation, war of, 57–58 anti-Semitism. See racial defilement Antisocial Parasite Ordinance, 41 appeals system, 40–41 Barbarossa Jurisdiction Decree of 1941, 55, 56–62; sexual assaults and, 136–37 Bastian, Max, 5 Beck, Birgit, 138, 147–48 Berube, Allan, 130–31 bestiality, 201–5; intoxication and, 226–27 blitzkrieg in Russia, failure of, 77, 78–82, 253n70 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 105 British military justice, 20–21 case files of Nazi Germany, recovery of, 99–102 child molestation: children blamed for, 182, 187–88; class bias and paternalism in cases of, 176, 180–82, 187–88; court testimonies of children and, 175–78; field and reserve courts sentencing for, 182–89; incest and, 169–74; intoxication and, 222–23; light sentences for, 181–82; reintegration and, 255n129, 268n26; Wehrmacht Commander–Berlin sentencing for, 174–82 civilian courts, 238n43, 244n28; child molestation cases in, 184; homosexuality cases in, 129–32; racial defilement cases in, 191–92 class bias, 176, 180–82, 182, 187–88 clemency petitions, 40–41, 46 Commissar Order, 56–62 confirmation of verdicts, 51–55, 120–21, 244– 45nn40–41, 244n36, 247n85 Court of the Sixth Infantry Division, 47; sentencing of homosexuals by, 123–26 Court of the Twenty-ninth Panzer Grenadier Division : sexual assault cases heard by, 155–60 Court of the Eighty-second Infantry Division, 233; sexual assault cases heard by, 144–47, 148 Court of the 253rd Infantry Division, 60, 121, 162; child molestation cases heard by, 183, 184–86; sentencing of homosexuals by, 123–26 Court of the Wehrmacht Commander–Berlin, 48, 100, 120, 190, 195, 209, 229; child molestation cases heard by, 173–82; sentencing of homosexuals by, 123–28; sexual assault cases heard by, 162–67 courts: civilian, 129–32, 184, 191, 238n43, 244n28; class bias and paternalism in, 176, 180–82, 182, 187–88; establishment of Reich Supreme Military, 29–30, 52; expert medical testimony in, 217–19, 226–27; field and reserve, 123–29, 182–89; inconsistencies in sentencing, 123–32, 134–35, 148, 183–84, 233–34; leniency in sentencing for intoxication , 224–25; leniency in sentencing for racial defilement, 198; leniency in sentencing for sexual assaults, 144–47, 170–71, 172; -martial , 39–40, 43, 131, 138, 236n21; National Socialist ideology influence on, 170–71, 178–79; peacetime, 29–30, 47–48; required to serve military interests, 48–50; sentencing based on quality of military service, 140–43, 161, 167, 179, 184–85, 202–3, 207, 215–16, 222–23; testimonies of children, 175–78; wartime, 47–51. See also Gerichtsherr, the; Wehrmacht, the Das Schwarz Korps, 105 death sentences: for desertion, 50–51, 55, 246n72; for homosexuality, 116–17, 259nn30–31; increased use as WWII progressed , 231–32, 235nn1–2; for racial defilement , 193–94; for sexual assault, 152 deaths of soldiers: in battle, 77; in field penal camps, 84; suicide, 117 deferment of sentences: for front-parole, 67–70; parole battalions and, 70–77 desertion, punishment for, 50–51, 55, 246n72 deterrence, 53–54 die deutsche Militärjustiz in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus , 5 die NS-Militärjustiz und das Elend der Geschichtsschreibung , 11 284 I N D E X diminished responsibility, 228–30, 242n72 disciplinary units, 32–35 Dönitz, Karl, 50–51 eastern occupied territories: homosexuality among soldiers in, 118–19; intoxicated soldiers in, 212–17; sexual assault in, 135–148, 264nn20–21 Eberlein, Michael, 27 entrapment and homosexuality, 119–23 expert medical testimony, 217–19, 226–27 field courts, sentencing by, 123–29, 182–89 field penal camps: child molesters in, 185–86; creation of, 78–82, 254n89; the Gerichtsherr and, 91–92; homosexuals sentenced to, 111– 14, 115–16, 125–26, 129, 131–32; illness and mortality in, 84–85, 88; intoxication convictions and, 213–14, 221; rapists sentenced to, 147, 156–57, 159–60; structure, 85–86, 262nn77–78; work performed by soldiers sent to, 82–84, 87–88 Fighting Power, 234 fighting power, subversion of, 37–38 Förster, Jürgen, 58–59 France, military justice, 20–21, sexual assaults in, 148–55 Freisler, Roland, 4 Fritz, Stephen, 206 front-parole, 67–70, 231–32; for rapists, 164–66 Gerichtsherr, the, 12–15, 40; confirmation of verdicts by, 51–55, 120–21, 244n36, 244–45nn40–41, 247n85; field penal camps and, 84–85; inconsistency in punishments ordered by, 115–16; parolee transfers by, 91–92; power of, 41–47, 93–94, 232, 243n19, 267n6; reinstatement of sentences by...