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Erna Gertrude[1] Wazinski (born September 7, 1925, in Ihlow (Oberbarnim);[2] died November 23, 1944, in Wolfenbüttel) was a German armorer worker. She was denounced by a neighbor at the age of 19 for alleged looting after the bombing of Braunschweig and sentenced to death as a "public enemy" by the Special Court of Braunschweig on the basis of the Ordinance Against Public Enemies, (VVO), issued on September 5, 1939.[3]
Wazinski, who had confessed only after being mistreated by criminal investigators and for whom two pardons for clemency had previously been filed, died under the guillotine in Wolfenbüttel Prison. The case came back before German courts several times over a period of 40 years after the war. In 1952, a court mitigated the old sentence; in 1991, an acquittal was issued on the basis of new testimony.[4] After the law called Gesetz zur Aufhebung nationalsozialistischer Unrechtsurteile in der Strafrechtspflege came into force on September 1, 1998, all sentences under the Ordinance Against Public Enemies were sweepingly repealed.[5]
The almost completely preserved trial files are now in the Wolfenbüttel Department.[6][7]
- ^ Joachim Schmid in: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8, S. 641.
- ^ Bernhild Vögel: Ein kurzer Lebensweg – Der Fall Erna Wazinski. Arbeitsmaterialien für die schulische und außerschulische Jugendbildungsarbeit, Braunschweig 1996, S. 1.
- ^ Aktenzeichen: SAW: 42 Neu Fb 7 Nr. 1610, 1 Sond Js 835/44, nach: Pollmann: Der Schwierige Weg in die Nachkriegszeit, S. 91.
- ^ Ludewig, Kuessner: "Es sei also jeder gewarnt" – Das Sondergericht Braunschweig 1933–1945, S. 242.
- ^ Nr. 32 der Anlage (zu Artikel 1 § 2 Nr. 3) des Gesetzes zur Aufhebung nationalsozialistischer Unrechtsurteile in der Strafrechtspflege.
- ^ Johannes Unger: Der Fall Erna Wazinski, In: Kirche von unten, Heft 50, Braunschweig 1991, p. 14–20.
- ^ Signatur der Prozessakten im Niedersächsischen Staatsarchiv Wolfenbüttel: 42 B. Neu FB Nr. 7/1979 Nr. 60.