Dr. Gustav Kunz, leading court doctor at Nuernberg, was an excellent and reliable witness. He stated:
“Insult, humiliation, and mental torture of the defendants were routine and the two judges, especially Oeschey, did not even renounce them in cases in which—according to the legal situation—the verdict had to be and actually was acquittal or an insignificant sentence.”
Kurt Hoffmann, prosecutor at Nuernberg, states that Oeschey was severe as to the German defendants and was—
“* * * even more severe with regard to sentences against foreigners and much more furious in his conduct of their trials, especially in the case of Poles.”
Adolf Paulus, former public prosecutor, speaks of the “brutality of which only Oeschey was capable.”
Friedrich Doebig, who was president of the district court of appeals at Nuernberg, later senate president of the Reich Supreme Court, stated that “Oeschey like Rothaug was a fanatical Nazi, who consistently interpreted and enforced the law in accord with Nazi ideologies.”
Dr. Herbert Lipps served with defendant Oeschey on the Special Court, Nuernberg. He states that Oeschey was autocratic and would not tolerate contradiction.
“Defendants were insulted by Oeschey in the most abusive manner and death candidates were told by Oeschey right at the beginning of the session that they had forfeited their lives.
“Toward foreigners, particularly Poles, Oeschey was especially rigorous and here upheld the National Socialist theory of liquidating where nationals of the occupied territories were concerned. I remember a case in which a Polish farmhand was ill-treated by his employer and defended himself. Oeschey told the defendant that a Pole was not allowed to oppose a German.”
Dr. Franz Gros was an associate judge at Nuernberg. He states that Oeschey followed the harsh procedural methods of Rothaug and was a “fanatic National Socialist who pursued his dishonorable motives with conviction and who willingly lent his hand to blood-thirsty National Socialist jurisdiction.”