Oskar Cohn
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Oskar Cohn was a German lawyer, Zionist and socialist politician. He was a member of the German and Prussian parliament and the Weimar National Assembly representing the Social Democratic Party of Ger
Oskar Cohn
Weimar National Assembly, Cohn standing on the far left
Charles Fryatt
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Charles Algernon Fryatt was a British merchant seaman who was court martialled by the Imperial German Navy for attempting to ram a German U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured b
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…to investigate Allied allegations of illegal treatment of prisoners of war in Germany, named after its chairman Walther Schücking. In the case of Charles Fryatt, who had been executed by German authorities in 1916, Cohn and Eduard Bernstein dissented from the commission's verdict and publicly declared that they…
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SS Brussels scuttled at Zeebrugge, October 1918
Bruges Town Hall, where Fryatt's court-martial occurred
Notice of execution in German, Dutch and French