4. Criminal case against Johann Kornmayer—OJs. 31/44. Sentence of the 1st penal senate of 24 April 1944 (President of the Senate Cuhorst, Landgerichtsdirektor Dr. Bohn, and Oberlandesgerichtsrat Dr. Stuber).
The reasons aggravating the punishment which were appropriately stated in the sentence should have resulted in sentencing the defendant, an old Marxist, to a considerably higher sentence than 3 years’ penal servitude.
5. Criminal case against Paul Friebel—OJs. 32/44—sentence of the 1st penal senate of 4 April 1944 (President of the Senate Cuhorst, Landgerichtsdirektor Hegele, and Oberlandesgerichtsrat Eckert).
The defendant spoke in an especially critical period, in favor of a capitulation after the Italian example. I cannot accept the sentence of 1 year’s prison term as a sufficient punishment.
6. Criminal case against Clothilde Radspieler—OJs. 26/44—sentence of the 2d senate of 9 March 1944 (President of the Senate Cuhorst, Landgerichtsdirektor Payer).
The sentence passed of 1 year’s prison term is not in proportion with the particularly dangerous remarks made, even taking into account the mitigating reasons of the personality of the defendant.
7. Criminal case against Heinrich Brechtel—OJs. 221/43—sentence passed by the 1st penal senate on 24 February 1944 (President of the Senate Cuhorst, Oberlandesgerichtsrat Dr. Stuber, and Oberlandesgerichtsrat Eckert).
There are considerable doubts about the negation of the inner facts of the case, the defeatism, in view of the political past of the defendant and the undisputable meaning of his remarks. In any case the sentence of 1 year’s prison term cannot be regarded as sufficient in the case of this old Marxist who saw a new light dawn after the fall of the Duce and who openly expressed his hostility towards the State.
8. Criminal case against August Meier—OJs. 14/44—sentence of the 1st penal senate of 26 April 1944 (President of the Senate Cuhorst, Landgerichtsdirektor Dr. Bohn, and Oberlandesgerichtsrat Dr. Stuber).
In this case also the especially dangerous remarks of the defendant made to the wife of a soldier and to a soldier have been punished with a sentence of 1 year’s prison which sentence is in no way satisfactory. I intend, also in the cases 3 to 8, to submit the files to the Reich Chief Prosecutor at the People’s Court for examination of the question whether the extraordinary veto should be applied against the sentences passed.