Hans Conrad Leipelt

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Charge:	Treason
Sentence:	Death and Executed
Years Imprisoned:	1.25
Year Crime:	1943
Year Convicted:	1945
Year Cleared:	1983
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Germany
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Munich
Result:	Legislature Overturned Conviction after Execution
Summary of Case:	"Hans Leipelt was one of the White Rose defendants. After receiving , who along with Marie-Luise Jahn used had distributed the leaflets . After Professor Huber's arrest, Hans Leipelt and Marie-Luise Jahn secretly collected funds for the destitute Huber. While helping the Huber family someone , Leipelt was arrested on October 8, 1943, along with his mother and his sister. His mother died in prison in 1943. Leipelt was tried, convicted and sentenced to death on October 13, 1944, and he was guillotined on January 29, 1945. On September 8, 2009 the German Parliament unanimously overturned all WWII conviction for treason. So the treason convictions of all White Rose participants were overturned. It is also believed that the White Rose participants convictions had previously been legislatively stripped of any legal force in 1983."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On September 8, 2009 the German Parliament unanimously overturned all WWII conviction for treason. It is also believed that the White Rose participants convictions had previously been legislatively stripped of any legal force in 1983."
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Age When Imprisoned:	22
Age When Released:	23
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Hans Conrad Leipelt, Wikipedia.org"
Information Location 1:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Conrad_Leipelt
Information Source 2:	"“A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students Against Hitler,” Richard Hanser, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1979, pp. 319, ISBN: 0-399-12041-6"
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Information Source 3:	"Hans Leipelt, Biography"
Information Location 3:	http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/biographie/view-bio/leipelt/
Information Source 4:	"Germany overturns Nazi-era treason convictions, Associated Press article, Dallas Morning News, September 9, 2009"
Information Location 4:	http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-treason_09int.ART.State.Edition1.4c2d428.html
Information Source 5:	""The Law Under The Swastika - Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany," Michael Stolleis, The University of Chicago Press (1992), p. 157, and endnote 21 at p. 243."
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Hans Conrad Leipelt

Charge:

Treason

Sentence:

Death and Executed

Years Imprisoned:

1.25

Year Crime:

1943

Year Convicted:

1945

Year Cleared:

1983

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Germany

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Munich

Result:

Legislature Overturned Conviction after Execution

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On September 8, 2009 the German Parliament unanimously overturned all WWII conviction for treason. It is also believed that the White Rose participants convictions had previously been legislatively stripped of any legal force in 1983."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

22

Age When Released:

23

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Hans Conrad Leipelt, Wikipedia.org"

Information Location 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Conrad_Leipelt

Information Source 2:

"“A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students Against Hitler,” Richard Hanser, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1979, pp. 319, ISBN: 0-399-12041-6"

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Information Source 3:

"Hans Leipelt, Biography"

Information Location 3:

http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/biographie/view-bio/leipelt/

Information Source 4:

"Germany overturns Nazi-era treason convictions, Associated Press article, Dallas Morning News, September 9, 2009"

Information Location 4:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-treason_09int.ART.State.Edition1.4c2d428.html

Information Source 5:

""The Law Under The Swastika - Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany," Michael Stolleis, The University of Chicago Press (1992), p. 157, and endnote 21 at p. 243."

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