Marie-Luise Jahn

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Charge:	Treason
Sentence:	12 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.5
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
Summary of Case:	"Marie-Luise Jahn was one of the White Rose defendants. After Professor Huber's arrest, Hans Leipelt and Marie-Luise Jahn secretly collected funds for the destitute Huber. For helping the Huber family Jahn and Leipelt were arrested (along with Leipelt's mother (who died awaiting trial) and his sister.) Jahn was arrested on July 13, 1943, 3 months before Leipelt.. She was convicted and sentenced on October 13, 1944 to 12 years in a maximum security prison. 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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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	25
Age When Released:	26
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Marie-Luise Jahn, Wikipedia.org"
Information Location 1:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Luise_Jahn
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:	"Germany Overturns Nazi Treason Convictions, By Kirsten Grieshaber (AP reporter), Military.com, September 8, 2009"
Information Location 3:	http://www.military.com/cs/Satellite?c=maArticle&cid=1199423008022&pagename=News%2FnwsLayout
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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Marie-Luise Jahn

Charge:

Treason

Sentence:

12 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.5

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

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:

25

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Marie-Luise Jahn, Wikipedia.org"

Information Location 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Luise_Jahn

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"

Information Location 2:

Information Source 3:

"Germany Overturns Nazi Treason Convictions, By Kirsten Grieshaber (AP reporter), Military.com, September 8, 2009"

Information Location 3:

http://www.military.com/cs/Satellite?c=maArticle&cid=1199423008022&pagename=News%2FnwsLayout

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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