Mauthausen-Gusen Camp Trial: Dachau Concentration Camp (1946)

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The Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials were a set of two consecutive trials of the German World War II criminals, carried over by the Dachau International Military Tribunal. Between March 29 and May 13, 1946, and then from August 6 to August 21, 1947, a total of 69 former Nazi officials were tried. Among them were some of the former guards at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system and August Eigruber, a former Gauleiter of Upper Austria.

The first trial of the Mauthausen-Gusen crew took place in the Dachau concentration camp between March 29 and May 13, 1946. Among the accused were 60 former members of the camp's administration and August Eigruber, a former Gauleiter of Upper Austria. Among the defendants were also Viktor Zoller (former commander of the SS-Totenkopf guard battalion), and doctors Friedrich Entress (an SS member and a medic who practiced medical experiments on hundreds of inmates; killing most of them with injections of phenol), Eduard Krebsbach and Erich Wasicky (responsible for running camp's gas chambers). The Mauthausen-Gusen commander, Franz Ziereis, was shot several weeks after the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen camps and died in former Camp Gusen I on May 24, 1945.

All of the defendants were accused of a wide variety of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Among them was murder, torture, beating and starving the inmates. After six weeks all the defendants were found guilty. 58 were sentenced to death by hanging (9 were later paroled and their sentences were changed to life imprisonment), whilst three were sentenced to life imprisonment. All the death sentences were carried out on May 27 and May 28 of 1947 in Landsberg Prison.

Dachau concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau, IPA: [ˈdaxaʊ]) was the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (9.9 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, which is located in southern Germany.

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[davidgrahamscott]

all patsies...the bigwigs got away

[TheHagueCityTHC]

SKULL AND BONES

[MultiSurvivor93]

GUT



[bonsema1]

one of the convicts´ last name is schwartzenegger could have been arnolds relative , a close one even......

[nutzername972]

SIEGERJUSTIZ...

[trzcinarowice]

@davidgrahamscott Well, not all.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@therealbamlee i have read a book, i have read many books, and i have seen many archive films. i am an ex military man and i know the insignia of soldiers of many nations. i have seen lufftewaffe troops and wehrmacht troops rounding up and executing innocent civilians. they were all involved, except the kreigsmarine.

[therealbamlee]

@MrJimmyboy1972 that is not true. go read a book.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@BeezieMadden13 unfortunately, the whole german military machine (apart from the kreigsmarine) were responsible for mass murder.

[BeezieMadden13]

@freebird100 i think of Germans during WW2 as soldiers that are doing their job, fighting for their country. I think of nazis as cold blooded murderers who killed over 6 million jews in 6 years.

[gprswap3]

@stuka52 were malnourished..

[lynchie3000]

@RebelSonBand In 1966 visitors to Auschwitz were told Jews were electrocuted there.

Jean-Claude Pressac

AUSCHWITZ: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers (p.217)