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right|thumb|Wehrkraftzersetzung death sentence issued by the Volksgerichtshof|People's Court on 8 September 1943 against Dr. Alois Geiger for [[defeatism]]

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Wehrkraftzersetzung

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8 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Definition in the Nazi military penal code
  • Interpretation
  • Use in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • People executed under ''Wehrkraftzersetzung''
  • Footnotes
  • References
  • Bibliography

right|thumb|Wehrkraftzersetzung death sentence issued by the Volksgerichtshof|People's Court on 8 September 1943 against Dr. Alois Geiger for [[defeatism]]

Wehrkraftzersetzung or Zersetzung der Wehrkraft (German for "corroding military strength") was a sedition offence in German military law during the Nazi Germany era from 1938 to 1945.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wehrkraftzersetzung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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