Celle, Landkreis Celle, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. It is implied that his death was actually caused by the Gestapo, to ensure that the Wannsee Conference and the Holocaust remained a secret. The number of death sentences rose sharply under Freisler's rule. According to Mrs. Jodl, "Not one person said a word in reply. Schwerin von Schwanenfeld Graf Ulrich Wilhelm, born 21-12-1902 Kopenhagen, Denmark, the son of the German diplomat Ulrich Graf von Schwerin (1864–1930) and his wife Freda von Bethmann-Hollweg, a cousin of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Grave marker for the Russegger family. Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans Scholl. The first, “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor,” outlawed marriage and sexual relations between Jews and Germans. Its separate administrative existence beyond the ordinary judicial system increased its notoriety, and despite its judicial trappings it rapidly turned into an executive execution arm and psychological domestic terror weapon of Nazi Germany's totalitarian regime, in the tradition of a revolutionary tribunal rather than a court of law. AP dispatch from Stockholm, reprinted as "Berlin, Nerves Racked By Air Raids, Fears Russian Army Most,", Will, George F. , "Plot failed, but the spirit lived," reprinted in, Buchanan, William, "Nazi War Criminal's Widow Recalls Nuremberg,", Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany, "Digital Archives of the Regional Archives in Opava", Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3qsImhAswo, "100th Bomb Group Foundation - Personnel - LT COL Robert ROSENTHAL", Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory, Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfW6hHWWuM, "The Top Secret Trial of the Third Reich, documentary", Newspaper clippings about Roland Freisler, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roland_Freisler&oldid=978086852, World War I prisoners of war held by Russia, Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox officeholder with unknown parameters, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from May 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2016, Articles with dead external links from April 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Geerling, Wayne. Freisler later rejected any insinuation that he had ever co-operated with the Soviets, the ideological nemesis of Nazi Germany, but his subsequent career as a political official in Germany was overshadowed by rumours about his time as a "Commissar" with the "Reds".[7].