But in 1925 they acquired a champion—a diabolical defense lawyer named Roland Freisler. Freisler was particularly adept at portraying Hitler’s bully boys as “peaceful protestors” who had ...

Following World War l, Roland Freisler returned to his native Germany having been a POW in Russia. During that time he had learned Russian while admiring the authoritarian methods of the Communist ...

Hitler called Roland Freisler a Bolshevik, but still entrusted him with executing the Third Reich’s main political opponents. The president of the People’s Court of the Third Reich ...

History has all but forgotten Nazi Germany’s most feared judge, Roland Freisler, the President of the Volksgericht (People’s Court). Known as the “hanging judge,” Freisler was known for ...

In the center, Nazi lawyer Roland Freisler, who wrote laws that are partially still in existence today. Photo: German Federal Archive / Wikimedia Commons. Germany has made great efforts to purge ...

Keller likened Rainer Koch to Nazi-era judge Roland Freisler at a federation meeting on April 23. That prompted state and regional officials to express a vote of no confidence in Keller’s ...

Some the laws were penned by Judge Roland Freisler, the notorious “People’s Court” chairman who sentenced thousand of civilians and soldiers to death during World War II for treason.

Activity against the Nazi party and its various subsidiary organizations will be punished by death as treason, it was disclosed today by Roland Freisler, state secretary for the Ministry of Justice.

For example: we learned that a US air assault on Berlin in February 1945 killed Roland Freisler, a “fanatical” Nazi judge who had sent 2,600 people to their deaths including the 21-year-old ...

BERLIN (AP) — German soccer federation president Fritz Keller is facing calls to resign after comparing one of his vice presidents to infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler. The federation said ...