Sondergericht

Even as heavy-handed as justice was in Nazi Germany, defendants were afforded at least nominal protections under the regular courts' rules and procedures.

[1] The special courts played a major role in carrying out summary executions via judicial murder in Nazi occupied Poland.

The People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) was created in April 1934 for dealing with cases of treason or attacks on national or regional government members.

[5][6] One of its most notable trials was that of the Beer Hall Putsch conspirators, including Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff, Wilhelm Frick, Friedrich Weber, and Ernst Röhm.

[9] Especially during the first years of their existence they "had a strong deterrent effect" against opposition to the Nazis; the German public was intimidated through "arbitrary psychological terror".