Certified: [Typed signature] Klemm
[Typed signature] Grundmann
First Judicial Secretary
- PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-627
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 474
- (Also Rothenberger Document 73
- Rothenberger Defense Exhibit 7)
LETTER OF DEFENDANT KLEMM TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE HAMBURG DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL, 1 MARCH 1945, STATING THAT SENTENCES IN CASES OF “UNDERMINING THE MILITARY EFFICIENCY” OF GERMANY HAVE BEEN TOO LENIENT
The Reich Minister of Justice
IV g-23-3118/45
- Berlin W 8, 1 March 1945
- Wilhelmstrasse 65
- Telephone: 41 00 44
- Long distance 11 65 16
- (Stamp)
- Hanseatic District Court of Appeal
- Received: 9 March 1945
To the
President of the District Court
of Appeal
and the
Attorney General
in Hamburg
Subject: Too lenient sentences and sentences proposed by the prosecution in cases of undermining the military efficiency