- Auschwitz Trial
:"This is about the trial held in Poland. See
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials for the German Auschwitz trials."The Auschwitz trial began on
November 24 ,1947 , inKraków , when Polish authorities (theSupreme National Tribunal ) tried 41 former staff of theAuschwitz concentration camp s. The trials ended onDecember 22 ,1947 .The best-known defendants were
Arthur Liebehenschel , former commandant;Maria Mandel , head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctorJohann Kremer . Thirty-eight other SS officers — 34 men and four women — who had served as guards or doctors in the camps were also tried.entences
Summary: 23 death sentences, 16 imprisonments from life sentences to 3 years, one person acquitted.
*Liebehenschel, Mandel and Kremer were condemned to death, as were
Hans Aumeier ,August Bogusch ,Therese Brandl ,Arthur Breitwiser ,Fritz Buntrock ,Wilhelm Gehring ,Paul Gotze , Max (Maximilian) Grabner,Heinrich Josten ,Hermann Kirschner ,Josef Kollmer , Franz Kraus,Herbert Ludwig ,Karl Mockel ,Kurt Mueller ,Erich Muehsfeldt ,Ludwig Plagge ,Hans Schumacher ,Paul Szczurek andHarvey Taunt (Arthur Breitwieser and Johann Kremer had their sentences commuted tolife imprisonment ).
*Luise Danz ,Hans Koch ,Anton Lechner ,Adolf Medefind ,Detlef Nebbe , andKarl Seufert receivedlife sentence s;
*Oswald Kaduk was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment;
*Alexander Bulow , Hans Hofmann,Hildegard Lächert ,Eduard Lorenz ,Alice Orlowski ,Franz Romeikat , andJohannes Weber were sentenced to 15 years;
*Richard Schroeder received 10 years,Erich Dinges five years, andKarl Jeschke three years.
*Hans Münch was acquitted.(
Rudolf Höß , sentenced in another trial, was executed onApril 16 ,1947 in front of the crematorium at Auschwitz I.)All other executions were carried out in a Kraków prison onJanuary 28 ,1948 ; Maria Mandel and Therese Brandl were the first to be executed.
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