Oswald Rothaug

[3] Rothaug sought after and presided over the trial of Leo Katzenberger in March 1942, ordering his execution for "racial defilement" in May 1943.

[4] Rothaug accused the elderly Jewish man of having sexual relations with a younger German woman, Irene Seiler, which was a crime in Nazi Germany according to the Rassenschande or "racial purity" laws, a part of the Nuremberg Laws.

During the Judges' Trial at Nuremberg, Rothaug was sentenced to life imprisonment on 14 December 1947 for crimes against humanity.

From the evidence of his closest associates as well as his victims, we find that Oswald Rothaug represented in Germany the personification of the secret Nazi intrigue and cruelty.

[1] Rothaug's role in the Katzenberger trial was inspiration for the plot surrounding the fictional characters Ernst Janning and Irene Hoffman Wallner in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg.