Talk:Roland Freisler

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It's entirely unclear what the last entry in 'Fictional Portrayals' means - apparently something in Dutch? 'Still one has to shout these days: "smerige heterokoek, smerige nazijuristen van Gent, ik wil mijn stemrecht terug en daar zo snel mogelijk van op de hoogte gebracht worden' There's no attribution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.203.194.83 (talk) 19:39, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

imho, the excerpt from the questioning quoted in the article does not show any methodology, the guy just abuses the count. But I don't want to remove that significant a part from an article without a second opinion, so I'm asking for comments on that one. Any objections?

And, I'm not sure about the proceedings of the Volksgerichtshof, but removing belts, suspenders and neckties sounds like a perfectly normal way to treat prisoners, not a special way "to make them ridiculous".

Freisler had people even remove their denture, clearly on purpose to humiliate them. David 62.224.199.122 06:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They mean before the trail, where it would be recorded for show in the news. These man where given horribly old clothing, not of the right size. Thus, without belts or supsenders they had nothing to hold up their trousers, end making them look ridiculous.

The fact that we can say they had no intention to ridicule their prisoners by removing their clothes...that is scary. Such are the words of people that do not learn from someone else's mistakes. Please go ahead and repeat history. --88.89.69.222 (talk) 22:18, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also I have trouble believing that the Nazis would be dumb enough to put a guy who quotes the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland in court (as claimed in the next paragraph) in charge of important trials like the one against the White Rose people. Are there any reliable sources for this? Eliot Stearns 16:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Since no one objected, I removed the mentioned quote now. Criticism of course welcome... Eliot Stearns 18:58, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly wouldn't object to the removal of an unattributed quote, but I find your statement, I have trouble believing that the Nazis would be dumb enough a bit odd. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibilities that they could have put anybody at all in charge of the court. There are certainly mountains of evidence of some far dumber acts on the part of the Nazis...um, genocide? ethnic cleansing? just to name two. --Easter Monkey 01:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I can see your point, of course the Nazi ideology is against everything humanity should be. But I don't think genocide has anything to do with the Nazis being stupid in the sense of clownish maniacs dancing through the courtroom and screaming "off with his head!". A profound lack of ethics and human behaviour is not the same as obviously making a fool of yourself in a formal context - and in being formal and restrictive, they were experienced, I'd say.

And, for clarity, the quote I removed on Oct. 19th was the excerpt from an interrogation I mentioned in my first paragraph above, not the Alice in Wonderland one. Sorry for being ambiguous. Eliot Stearns 19:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A connotation to Freisler's death: Since my english is not so brilliant, i don't want to mess around in the article. In newer german literature it is mentioned, that Freisler didn't die in his cellar, but was struck by a piece of a bombshell. Interestingly, a passing doctor was asked to treat Freisler, but he declared Freisler to be dead. Still he refused to sign a death certificate. He - the doctor - was on his way to Freisler's boss (Thierack, Minister of Justice) to plea for mercy for his brother - who was sentenced to death shortly before that incident. This is described in a book "Der Hinrichter" from 1993 by Helmut Ortner(citation can be found - in german - at http://www.zeit.de/2005/06/A-Freisler?page=5 ) Anyone keen to look for an english source? David 62.224.199.122 06:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So why didn't you correct the article on that important point, citing your sources? If your English is not brilliant, someone else will fix it. JBarreto 16:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Between 1942 and 1945, more than 5,000 death sentences were handed out, and of these, 2,600 through the court's First Senate, which Freisler headed. Thus, Freisler alone was responsible, in his three years on the court, for as many death sentences as all other senate sessions of the court together in the entire time the court existed, between 1934 and 1945." - doesn't follow at all, since there is no mention of how many death sentences were handed out by other judges between 1934 and 1941. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.219.49 (talk) 16:55, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wannsee Conference

The reference to the Wannsee Conference is incorrect. It is true that he "stood in for Minister Franz Schlegelberger". But the second part of the sentence "as regarding the detailed plans of the Final Solution, the murder of all European Jews" does not follow logically. He stood in at the conference, he did not "stand in as regarding the murder of all European Jews". Furthermore it is incorrect as a summary of the Wannsee Conference. There were no "detailed plans for the...murder of all European Jews" discussed at the Wannsee Conference.122.59.167.152 (talk) 04:20, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]