Czernowitzers...
Based on the Nuremberg model, People's Tribunals were set up in Romania by a decree issued by King Michael I on April 21, 1945. For us the first trial held by the Bucharest People's Tribunal is of particular importance, since it dealt - i. a. - with the war crimes committed in Bukovina and particularly in the Czernowitz Ghetto. The bill of indictment, the opening statements of the prosecution as well as the attorney's speach are reproduced [in Romanian language] in this month's Book of the Month:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2017/03/poporul-acuza-peoples-accuse.html
The analysis of the war crimes committed in and around Czernowitz under the headline "Bukovina Fallen in the Hands of a Gang of Thieves" starts on page 54. The media coverage on this trial and the verdicts, referred to as "Death to the War Criminals", became Book of the Month, June 2015:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2015/06/moarte-criminalilor-de-razboi-death-to.html
General Corneliu Calotescu, formerly plenipotentiary Governor of Bukovina, was among the group of 29 officers sentenced to death for war crimes on 22 May 1945. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment but he was released in an amnesty in 1955.
Edgar Hauster
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