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| Riga Trial | |
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 Friedrich Jeckeln on the dock (standing, far left); Other defendants from left to right : 2. Generalmajor Hans Paul Kupper, 3. Generalleutnant Siegfried Ruff, 4. SA-Standartenführer Alexander Bocking, 5. Generalleutnant Wolfgang von Ditfurth, 6. Generalleutnant Albrecht Baron Digeon von Monteton, 7. Generalmajor Bronislav Pavel. | |
| Court | Soviet military tribunal Riga, Soviet Union |
| Indictment | War crimes |
| Decided | 3 February 1946 |
The Riga Trial was a war crimes trial held in front of a Soviet military tribunal between 26 January and 3 February 1946 in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union against six high ranking Wehrmacht officers, Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer Friedrich Jeckeln and SA-Standartenführer Alexander Boecking.
All eight defendants were found guilty of war crimes during the German–Soviet War of 1941–45 and sentenced to death. They were publicly hanged immediately after sentencing. Only Wolfgang von Ditfurth escaped execution due to bad health. He died in prison from heart failure on 22 March 1946.[1]
- ^ Müller, Klaus-Dieter; Schaarschmidt, Tomas; Weigelt, Andreas; Schmeitzner, Mike (2015). Todesurteile sowjetischer Militärtribunale gegen Deutsche (1944-1947): eine historisch-biographische Studie [Soviet military tribunals death sentences against Germans (1944-1947): a historical-biographical study]. Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 296. ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5. Retrieved 2020-07-21.