The Katzenberger Trial was a notorious Nazi show trial. A Jewish businessman and leading member of the Nuremberg Jewish community, Lehmann (Leo) Katzenberger, was accused of having an affair with a young "Aryan" woman, and on 14 March 1942 was sentenced to death. The presiding judge at the trial was later tried at the Nuremberg Trials (see Judges' Trial) and sentenced to life imprisonment. This trial later formed the basis of a subplot in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg.
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