Concerning the case Montgelas, Mueller stated:
“Concerning the case of Montgelas it must be pointed out that this was a case of political extermination, which was handled in a most hideous fashion.”
Again, he said:
“Oeschey was the most brutal judge that I have ever known in my life and a most willing instrument of the Nazi terroristic justice.”
Dr. Armin Baur was the medical officer at the Special Court. He said:
“One always had the impression that the verdict was already previously decided upon and that Oeschey and Rothaug were just playing cat and mouse with the defendants for hours. No occasion was missed to insult the defendants in the filthiest way.”
This medical expert dealt with cases which were tried both by Rothaug and by Oeschey. In the Katzenberger case the defendant Rothaug told the doctor that he wanted the defendant examined but that the examination was a matter of pure formality because the Jew “would be beheaded anyhow,” and he added, “It is sufficient for me that the swine said that a German girl sat on his lap.” Dr. Baur states that “foreigners were generally dealt with by Rothaug and Oeschey as inferior beings whose task it was only to serve the German master race.”
Hans Kern, defense counsel, stated “that foreigners were told at the beginning and throughout the trial that they were to be annihilated.” Again he said:
“Rothaug and Oeschey declined, as a matter of principle, to believe Polish citizens who were under accusation. They were branded as liars. It was assumed that their innate tendency made liars of them.”
He described Oeschey as a “notorious Pole baiter.”