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People's Court (Germany)
Not to be confused with People's Court (Bavaria).
This article is about Nazi Germany's Volksgerichtshof. For other similarly named entities, see People's Court (disambiguation).
Instrument of judicial murder in Nazi Germany
The People's Court (German: Volksgerichtshofpronounced[ˈfɔlksɡəˌʁɪçt͡shoːf]ⓘ, acronymed to VGH) was a Sondergericht ("special court") of Nazi Germany, set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law.
Its headquarters were originally located in the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin, later moved to the former Königliches Wilhelms-Gymnasium at Bellevuestrasse 15 in Potsdamer Platz (the location now occupied by the Sony Center; a marker is located on the sidewalk nearby).[1]
The court was established in 1934 by order of Reich ChancellorAdolf Hitler, in response to his dissatisfaction at the outcome of the Reichstag fire trial in front of the Reich Court of Justice (Reichsgerich