page_title: Slánský trial
hierarchical_section_title: Slánský trial
caption_attribution_description: Prozeß gegen die Leitung des staatsfeindlichen Verschwörerzentrums mit Rudolf Slánský an der Spitze. Gerichtsprotokoll in der Strafsache gegen die Leitung des staatsfeindlichen Verschwörerzentrums, die vor dem Senat des Staatsgerichts in Prag in der Zeit vom 20. bis 27. November 1952 gegen Rudolf Slánský, Bedřich Geminder, Ludvík Frejka, Josef Frank, Vladimír Clementis, Bedřich Reicin, Karel Šváb, Artur London, Vavro Hajdů, Evžen Löbl, Rudolf Margolius, Otto Fischl, Otto Šling und André Simone wegen der Straftaten des Hochverrats, der Spionage, der Sabotage und des Militärverrats verhandelt wurde. Justizministerium (Prag), 1953. 667 Seiten. (this protocol was published in at least 7 languages)
context_page_description: The Slánský trial was a 1952 antisemitic show trial against fourteen members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, including several high ranking officials. They were falsely accused of organizing a conspiracy against the Czechoslovak Republic. First Secretary of the KSČ Rudolf Slánský was the alleged leader of the conspirators.
  All fourteen defendants were found guilty, eleven of them were sentenced to death and executed, the remaining three received a life sentence.
context_section_description: The Slánský trial (officially Process s vedením protistátního spikleneckého centra v čele s Rudolfem Slánským English: "Trial of the Leadership of the Anti-State Conspiracy Centre Headed by Rudolf Slánský") was a 1952 antisemitic show trial against fourteen members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), including several high ranking officials. They were falsely accused of organizing a conspiracy against the Czechoslovak Republic. First Secretary of the KSČ Rudolf Slánský was the alleged leader of the conspirators.
  All fourteen defendants were found guilty, eleven of them were sentenced to death and executed, the remaining three received a life sentence.
caption: The official 1953 protocol, printed in Prague in at least seven languages (pictured in German)
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