1947/05/29 – Selbstmord Franz Böhme

29 May 1947

Franz Böhme, former Plenipotentiary Commanding General in German-occupied Serbia and one of the main defendants in the ‘Hostages Trial’ (Case VII) before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, commits suicide in prison before the arraignment. On Böhme‘s orders, thousands of Jews, Roma and Serbs were shot in 1941.

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Böhme, Franz

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