Das Volksgerichtshof: The People's Court
Von Moltke was defiant before the Nazi appendage: Das Volksgerichtshof. In early 1945, the Allies had finally gained a strong enough foothold in Europe to directly threaten Nazi Germany. The Nazi Regime began it's final descent into utter defeat. The Gestapo, seeing a post-Nazi Europe full of potential witnesses to it's crimes, frantically prosecuted those who had spoke out against the war or were seen as capable of leadership after the Reich was swept away. Some of the targets of the Nazi leadership's rage came from universities and the higher echelons of German society. These were citizens who, for reasons either personal or practical, remained in Germany as it crumbled. They would find themselves on the receiving end of bloody injustice. The Nazis sought out the remaining credible opposition voices from among these groups and permanently silenced them publicly in kangaroo courts. The courts were known as Volksgerichtshof or "People's Courts". In thes