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'''Otto Thorbeck''' (26 August 1912&nbsp;– 10 October 1976) was a [[Germans|German]] lawyer and [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] judge in the ''[[SS Court Main Office|Hauptamt SS-Gericht]]''.<br />
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Thorbeck was born in [[Brzeg|Brieg]], [[Silesia]].<br />
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In 1941, [[Sturmbannführer]] (Major) Thorbeck was appointed the chief judge of the SS and police court in [[Munich]] for which SS [[Standartenführer]] (Colonel) [[Walter Huppenkothen]] was the prosecutor. On 8 April 1945, under orders from [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]] he presided over a [[drumhead court-martial]] without witnesses, records of proceedings or a defence in [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]], that condemned [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] pastor [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], General [[Hans Oster]], Army chief judge [[Karl Sack]], Captain [[Ludwig Gehre]], and Admiral [[Wilhelm Canaris]] to death.<ref name=GermanResistance>{{cite book|year=1996|author=Peter Hoffman|isbn=0-7735-1531-3|title=The History of the German Resistance, 1933–1945|publisher=McGill-Queen’s Press}}</ref> They were all hanged on 9 April, two weeks before the [[United States Army]] liberated the camp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.97thdivision.com/chaplain.html|title= Memories of a Chaplain to the US 97th Infantry Division|date= 29 May 2011}}</ref>[[File:Flossenbürg April 9 1945 Memorial.JPG|thumb|right|Memorial to members of the [[German resistance to Nazism|German resistance]] condemned to death by Otto Thorbeck]]<br />
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After the war, Thorbeck was interned until April 1948. He then worked as an [[Lawyer|attorney]] in Nuremberg. In 1955, he was convicted by a [[Assizes|court of assizes]] in [[Augsburg]] for assisting in murder and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. On 19 June 1956, the [[Federal Court of Justice]] of Germany exonerated him on grounds that the killings were legal because the Nazi regime had the right to execute traitors. The decision was rescinded by the Berlin State Court in 1996.<ref>[[Gerd R. Ueberschär|Gerd Ueberschär]]: ''For another Germany''. fiTb 13934, Frankfurt/M 2006, {{ISBN|3-596-13934-1}}, p. 308 Anm.21</ref> He died in [[Nuremberg]] in 1976.<br />
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