[Nazi Justice Trial Transcripts]

[Nazi Justice Trial Transcripts] 

[Nazi Justice Trial Transcripts] 

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The file contains the verdicts of Johann Pavlasek (born on 2 July 1922 in Morawka) and Wenzel Balaš (born on 31 July 1926 in Klein Kunzendorf), two young men from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. After hearing about groups of partisans in Slovakia the defendenants made the decision to join them. After crossing the border from the Protectorate to Slovakia they were stopped by a military patrol. The patrol were on the side of the partisans and took the men to their camp in the woods. After some time with the group the defendants decided to return home. After arriving at home Balaš handed himself in to the police. Both men were found guilty of having illegally crossed the German-Slovakian border. Furthermore, Pavlasek possessed munition without permission. Pavlasek and Balaš were both sentenced to death in 1944.