ABSTRACT
On 14 April 1949, the American Military Tribunal IV in Case 11 sentenced the SSBrigadeführer Walter Schellenberg ‘to six years imprisonment’. His term was ‘to begin from June 17, 1945, the time of confinement before and during the trial’.1 Case No. 11, the so-called ‘Ministries Case’ or ‘Wilhelmstrasse Case’ was in fact, United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsaecker, et al.2 Military Tribunal IV was actually Military Tribunal IVA because the original Military Tribunal IV handled the Flick Case. As it took 17 months from indictment to judgment and more than two years between indictment and ‘postjudgment rulings…upon defense motions alleging error in the judgment’, the Wilhelmstrasse Case was the longest of all Nuremberg cases.3
