Permanent historical factsheet

Treason

Germany · Government / NSDAP Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1933–1934Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1933

Adolf Hitler1933

Government / NSDAP Government

Hitler decrees that treason would only be tried by a newly established Volksgerichtshof, notorious for its death sentences

1934

Adolf Hitler1934

Government / NSDAP Government

The "Peoples Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law, the court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses," which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism and treason

Names involved

Adolf Hitler

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.