The defendant was convictedin absentia after fleeing during the trial.
2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, inWorkers World[1]:
The first chancellor of West Germany,Conrad Adenauer[…] continued to keepHans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests.[…] Even after an East German court indicted Globkein absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.