Were Nazi judges prosecuted at Nuremberg?

[maxrandb]

Yes, Nazi judges were prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials, specifically in the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, with the Justice Trial (or Jurists' Trial) charging jurists from the German Ministry of Justice and members of the People's and Special Courts with "judicial murder" and other atrocities. Out of the 16 defendants, 10 were convicted, with sentences ranging from prison terms to life imprisonment.

The Justice Trial (Nuremberg Jurists' Trial)
Who was prosecuted?

This trial, part of the 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, targeted 16 Nazi-era jurists, prosecutors, and Ministry of Justice officials.

What were they accused of?

They were charged with crimes such as "judicial murder," persecution, enslavement, and murder committed through the manipulation of legal processes to serve the Nazi regime.

The outcome:

The trial convicted 10 of the 16 defendants. Four received life imprisonment, and the others were sentenced to various prison terms ranging from five to ten years.

Key Aspects

"Judicial Murder":
This was a unique charge in the Nuremberg proceedings, holding jurists responsible for committing atrocities in the name of the law.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Only trump has immunity

and that is only for "Official Acts".

[surfered]

2. The movie, Judgement at Nuremberg, with Spencer Tracy was all about this.

It wasn’t about Goering or other generals . It was about German judges who served Hitler’s purposes.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I researched this a while ago and only 1 Nazi served his time

after being convicted. I am still pissed off about that.

"Only one high-profile Nazi, Rudolf Hess, served his full life sentence at the Nuremberg Trials and was the only one of the convicted individuals to do so. Many other individuals who were convicted at the subsequent, more numerous Nuremberg Military Tribunals had their sentences commuted or were released early, especially during the 1950s."

[no_hypocrisy]

4. This book is the most definitive study of the Nazi judicial system

"Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich" by Ingo Muller

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Justice-Courts-Third-Reich/dp/067440419X?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6ATpo0SdFA7Ur4ytX50sUwj18cjLBnrFuG4cA5LRn2OCq8hUESELCZtxyWWIx0o3ZFYyGYK8f4fJ8FUkSKrmEr4V5-hS_330n86urOdw1VWKJbJSjkipKZIkGUS3dEzeX4P_5O3y_JkouvLvW_LHMC7ZArAPEf3WpwbyvDD2XC3oTazGFtTMZBzF_DQSaOdYLB0shRrnqgJXjqwsid0UkA1G5ZhJrBjd7RqrZafmV9E.wMbVqVvG_0t5insGGif1soGpnQ7KDFmDKqVd2sX1koA&dib_tag=se&qid=1756889293&refinements=p_27%3AIngo+M%C3%BCller&s=books&sr=1-3

Written by a German lawyer, published in Germany four years ago, and now expertly translated into English...Hitler's Justice tells an ugly story of moral corruption and professional degradation...Müller's book can in any event help us to see that judges should not be eager enlisters in popular movements of the day, or allow themselves to become so immersed in a professional culture that they are oblivious to the human consequences of their decisions. (Richard A. Posner New Republic)

By presenting one horrific perversion of justice after the other, Müller effectively destroys one pious myth to be found in post-war legal literature--that judges never wavered from the positivistic tradition of German law and did no more than apply existing codes. (V. R. Berghahn New York Times Book Review)

Hitler's Justice was designed to accomplish two important goals: first, to bring before the German public evidence establishing the utter failure of the vast majority of the German legal profession during the Third Reich; and second, to expose the unwillingness of the German legal profession after 1945 to acknowledge and remedy its earlier failure. Müller deserves praise for setting himself these goals, as well as for accomplishing them...Today, Hitler's Justice speaks with particular power to those judges who struggle with the most acute clashes between their sense of justice and the law. (Markus Dirk Dubber Columbia Law Review)