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AFTER THE

BATTLE

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NUMBER 57

Edited by Winston G. Ramsey

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CONTENTS

CRIME IN WWII

The Russelsheim Death March 1
WRECK INVESTIGATION

Beneath the Waters of Truk 21
READERS’ INVESTIGATIONS
The Mass Escape from Cowra 37
IT HAPPENED HERE

Antwerp ‘City of Sudden Death’ 43
PRESERVATION

An Engineer Returns...

. and a Museum is born 49

Front Cover: Werner Flos, the Chief Engineer of
the Organisation Todt in Berlin, whose pro-
jects ranged from the big gun sites in the Pas-
de-Calais to the U-Boat pens on the coast of
France, revisits the V2 bunker at Watten for
the first time since the war. In June 1987 he
recalled sheltering in the building several
times from air raids, the half-completed
structure being successfully destroyed by
American bombers in August 1943.

Centre Pages: Beneath the waters of Truk
lagoon in the Caroline Islands in the Pacific,
the bridge of the Nippo Maru with its mould-
ering engine telegraph is pictured by Klaus
Lindemann at a depth of 130 feet.

Back Cover: The evening shadows lengthen on
the serried ranks of graves at the US military
cemetery at St Avold in eastern France. Here
lie three of the airmen killed in the notorious
Russelsheim Death March — Tom Williams
was the radio operator on the last flight of
Wham! Bam! Thank You, Ma’m on August
24, 1944.

Acknowledgements: Pictures included in
Antwerp City of Sudden Death by courtesy of
Navorsings en Studiecentrum voor de
Geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog
in Brussels and The Mass Escape From
Cowra from Die Like the Carp by Harry
Gordon published by Cassell Australia Ltd.

ISSN: 0306-—154X

MISSING Ae Cary REPORT #J-140

12. ORGAINZATION: Location NORTH PICKENHAM 5 Command or Air Force 18th Air Force |
Group 49} $ Squadron 864 3 Detechmeat :
é. SFSUIPY: Folrt of Departure NePICKENHAM |; Course “a

Intendes Destin tion HANNOVER 3 Tyne of Missio n Aerial Combat
3. WTATHEX CONDITIONS AKD VISIBILITY AT TIME OF CRASH OR wh ’h LAST ROPORTEIt
CAVU ee ee __
4+. GIVis (s)ley_24; Month Aug 3 Your 44 ; Time 1140 .§ and Location_1& 15 Milos"! “North
of last krown whareadcuts of missing airercft. “of HANNOVER

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6. AIRCRAFT: Type, Model end Ssries_Be34 Jj AsueF. Sorin. umber -42=110107 Z=
aircraft Nickname WHAM BAM "Reclining Rabbit--Thank You Ma'n

1. SNGINESs Type, Model and Series, R-1650=65 & 5 AvaeF. Sorin] Numo-r(n),BP-44602)
o) BP=426709_ __; (c)_ BP-456439 (2)__BP=43656( a

8, INSTALLED WEaPCNS (Furnigsi below Make, Type ard Serial Number

(a)__ 722571 _ 3 (b 949972 3; (c)__117901 3 (d) 950652 _
(2) _ 949626 5 (f 950284 3; (g)_ 722651 ; (hr): 988726
9. TH2 PARSON} LISTSD BELOW SRI RAPORTED an ) Battle Casualty, -—Yes
or t) Non-Battle Cusun ty, oe
10. NUNBAA OF PLRSONS ABOARD AIRCRAFT: Crew 9 3 Passsnecrs_Q_; Tet. eli 9g.
(Starting with pilot, furnisa the folloring verticulerst If mor: than 10
persons wer? aboard eaircruft, list similar particulars on sspereta 3root

and attach crigi nel to this form).

Crex Position Name in Full Rank Serial Prosant
(Last Name First) Number Status
1. Pilot ROGERS, Norman J. Jr, 2nd Lt _0~820907 __ MIA
2. CowPilot... _SEKUL, John Ne 2nd Lt _0-824262 "MIA
3+ Newigator__._.TUFENKJIAN, Helgus F/O STW 126660 = MIA
4. ——~-ERININSTOOL, Forrest MW, 8 /Sgt_ 3646919 MUA
ob ‘One ——WILLIAMS., Thomas De. Jru Sgt-* 13300227... MTA
. ——=- DUMONT. William Ae St 831267687 MIA
I : po_______ AUSTIN, Elmore I, = Sk 40868 TA
+ Tail /Gun __ _-="RROWN, Sidney Bx ———s—=Ss=SSSpt —SCS 792548 1
. Nose/Gun ____ ADAMS, William M, 0 = et S3BSSOS] TA

11. BERQRQRRMK IDENTIFY BELOW THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE LAST KNOWLEDGE
OF AIRCRAFT, AND CHECK APPROPRIATE COLUMY TO INDICATE BASIS FOR SAME

1. BUPDEXIN, Harold W. 1st Lt. O=792215 Last Sighted
2. HUNT, Douglas 0. lst Lt. Ow~811086 Last Sighted
3. SUNDERS, Edward W. let Lt 071283867 Last Sighted

13. IF PERSONNEL, ARE BELIBVED TO HAVE SURVIVED, ANSWER = TO ONE OF THE

FOLLOWING STATEMENTS: (a) Parashutes were used 3; (b) Persons were
seen walking wway from scene of crash _3 or (c) iy other ~eason (Specify)
Unknown

14. ATTACH AERIAL PHOTOGRARH, MAP, CHART, OR SKETCH, SHOWING APPROXIMATE
LOCATION WHERE AIRCRAFT WAS LAST SEEN OR HEARD FROM See attached sheet

15. ATTACH EYEWITNESS DESCRIPTION OF CRASH, FORCBS LANDING, OR OTHER CIRCUN-
STANCES PERTAINING TO MISSING AIRCRAFT. See paragraph 17.

16. GIVE NAME, KANK AND SERIAL NUMBER OF OFFICER IN CHRRGE OF SEARCH, IF ANY,
INCLUDING DESCRIPTION AND EXTENT None

Date of Report 25 August 1944

s/ Herbert B. Bronrer
HERBERT B. BRONNER
Captain, A.C.
Intelligence Officer.

17. REMARKS OR EYEWITNESS STATEMENTS:

STATEMENT OF: Lst Lt. HAROLD W. BURDEKIN, 0792215, Af 123 We
taken at Interrogation:

"about 1140 hours, just about fifteen miles North of HANNOVER,
Lt Rogers, A/C 107 Z— called for fighter protection-- going
down smoking with number 2 engine feathered--but seemed to

be under control”

STATEMENT OF: lst Lt. DOUGLAS 0. HUNT, 0=811086, A/C 249 O-,
taken at Interrogation:

“Fifteen miles North of HANNOVER saw Lt. Rogers, A/C 107 Z~,
with number 2 engine feathered and whet appeared to be gas
or oil coming from mspber 1 engine--flying about 3,000 fect
below formation".

STATEMENT OF: lst Lt. EDWARD W. SUNDERS, 01282869, A/c 242 L-
taken at Interrogations

"Lt Rogers left formation after target (HANNOVER) with
number 2 engine burning--looked like an oil fire. He was
flying below our formation, apparently having a difficult
time keeping with the formation".

Missing Air Crew Reports were prepared on all USAAF aircraft which failed to return
from operations, the obligation being that of the relevant Group to file the details
within two days. Thus on August 25, 1944 Captain Bronner of the 491st Bombardment
Group completed this report on a routine loss over Germany the previous day. (Note
Item 12 does not exist on the original.)

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THE RUSSELSHEIM DEATH MARCH

On August 24, 1944, Eighth Air Force
Bomber Command launched over thirteen
hundred sorties to various targets in Ger-
many from its bases in Eastern England.
Primary targets were the oil and aircraft
industries and an armaments factory, the
854th Bomb Squadron, part of the 491st
Bomb Group stationed at North Pickenham,
Norfolk, sending its B—24s to Hannover. Just
before midday Wham! Bam! Thank You,
Ma’m, captained by 2nd Lieutenant Norman
J. Rogers, successfully attacked the airfield
north of the city which was their target when

Top: Undated picture of Wham! Bam! Thank you, Ma’m on its
hardstanding in the 854th Bomb Squadron dispersal area at
North Pickenham. (Ted Parker) Above: It was from this general

the aircraft was hit by flak and began to drop
out of formation.

Some ninety miles south-west of Han-
nover, near Greven, the No. 2 Platoon of the
local Landwachtbereitschaft (Home Guard)
were on duty at their post on Hause Hower.
The air raid warning had already sounded
and the men were all prepared for action.

‘Towards 12.03’, reported the SA-
Truppfthrer, ‘we observed a four-engined
bomber approaching from an easterly direc-
tion, which circled low over the parishes of
Wentrup and Hiittrup; height about 700 to

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800 metres. It seemed, in fact, as if two
engines were no longer running and gave the
impression that the plane was looking for a
landing place. But there was also the possib-
ilitv in our minds that the plane was attempt-
ing an attack on the canal and the canal road
bridge in Ladbergen. We therefore opened
fire when the distance was calculated to be
about 2,000-2,500 metres. I allowed the
plane to fly through three times from the
edge of the firing sights to the centre, and
each time fired a volley of about ten rounds.
Immediately afterwards, towards 12.15, the

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area that the B—24 set out on its last mission. The old airfield is
now the location of a turkey breeding farm after a brief burst of
activity as a Thor ballistic missile base in the late 1950s.

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Pilot of the aircraft was 2nd Lieutenant Norman J. Rogers, seen here (back row on the
left) with his crew at Langley Field in the States in June 1944. Next to him stand fellow
officers, 2nd Lieutenants John N. Sekul, Bernard J. Cassidy and Yancy Robinson. Front
row L-R: Sergeants William M. Adams, Elmore J. Austin (not ‘L’ as in the Missing
Report), Thomas D. Williams, William A. Dumont, Sidney E. Brown and Forrest W.
Brininstool. Lieutenant Cassidy and Lieutenant Robinson had been sent on a course
for some advanced training and so missed the Hannover mission, their places being
taken by Flight Officer Haigus Tufenkjian as navigator/bombardier. (Mrs R. Dietrich)

plane crashed in the direction of Hiittrup and
hit the ground under clouds of smoke.’

The aircraft having been crippled from
several bursts including a direct hit in the
bomb bay, Lieutenant Rogers gave the order
to bale out. First to jump was Sergeant
William A. Dumont, the ball turret gunner,
who landed heavily injuring his ankle. Next
out was Sergeant Thomas D. Williams, the
radio operator, followed by Sergeant
William M. Adams, the nose gunner, who
had been wounded in the arm, the tail
gunner, Sergeant Sidney E. Brown, and
Flight Officer Haigus Tufenkjian, the navi-
gator. The waist gunner, Sergeant Elmore J.
Austin, jumped next, followed by the en-
gineer, Staff Sergeant Forrest W. Brinin-
stool, who had received a flak wound to his
stomach. Last out were the co-pilot. 2nd
Lieutenant John N. Sekul, and Lieutenant
Rogers.

The B-24, number 42-110107, crashed not
far from the airfield beside the Beckers-
jurgen farm, scattering wreckage across the
field and road, the engines finishing up in the
farmyard itself. At 12.20 p.m. the local fire
brigade was alerted by the look-out on duty
at Héwer House who reported that an
aircraft had come down in the area, and ten
minutes later one fire engine left Huttrup for
the crash. At the same time a detachment
was sent from Feld L.M. Lager 2/6 by
Oberfeldwebel Spintler to cordon off the
wreckage. As there was no danger from fire
to the farm buildings, the fire engine was
ordered to return on the arrival of an NCO
and OR from bomb disposal to begin their
examination for live ordnance.

As parachutes had been observed, search
parties were despatched and by the end of
the afternoon all the crew had been rounded
up and taken to the old town hall in Greven.
Typical of the arrests was that later described
by the nose gunner, Sergeant Adams: ‘I
landed in the back yard of a farmhouse. A
German farmer, who was about fifty years of
age, 5ft 9in in height, 150-160 pounds, dark
complexioned, and who wore no glasses, fed
me and bandaged my right arm, which was
wounded by flak. A short time later, a man
about seventy years old, whom I presumed
to be the father of the farmer who cared for

me, came into the house and objected to my
being there. This man apparently wanted me
taken directly to the authorities. My captor
then took me to the village about a mile
away, and compelled me to walk aside him
until we were nearly in the village. At this
time, he compelled me to walk ahead of him
as he followed with his bicycle and firearm.

‘When we reached this village, I was taken

the street in the middle ot the village. It was
a stone building, and | would presume it to
be the town hall. When I entered the
building, three of my crew members.
Sergeant Brown, Sergeant Austin, and an
unknown flight officer who was navigator
[Tufenkjian was a last-minute replacement
for two regular crew members — Ed.]. were
already there. I was interrogated by a tall
man in the German uniform, rank unknown,
who was between fifty and sixty years of age.
6ft in height, and weight around 180 pounds.
He could only speak a few words of English.
When I would only tell him my name, rank
and serial number, he became angry and
called over a man in civilian clothes who
struck me across the face five or six times
with his arm. This civilian was a man around
forty years of age, 5ft 8in tall, stocky built
with weight around 200 pounds, and wearing
no glasses. While he was striking me, the
man in uniform said in very broken English,
“That is what you get for bombing our
women and children.” I think those were the
only words he knew in English. From there, I
was taken to the basement where I was
locked in a small room with the other
members of the crew.’

After all the crew had been assembled in
Greven, they were taken by truck to the local
railway station from where they travelled by
train to an unnamed Luftwaffe airfield.
There they were interrogated by two Ger-
man officers. Sergeant Adams commented
that ‘they treated us decently and asked
about our wounds’.

They were then transferred to a single
storey building a short distance away. Later
that evening Bill Adams was taken with the
wounded engineer to a small field hospital
where Brininstool was operated upon by a
doctor ‘wearing swimming trunks’. After a
piece of shrapnel had been removed from his
stomach, Brininstool was taken directly from
the operating table by ambulance to a hospi-
tal in Minster where he underwent a second
operation while Adams returned to the

by my captor to a building on the right side of __ others.

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That last flight took the Wham! Bam! crew from their base in Norfolk to Hannover
before they crashed near Greven. After capture, all except Sergeant Brininstool were
taken south by train destined for the interrogation centre at Oberursal on the
outskirts of Frankfurt. They were to get no further than Riisselsheim. (Other locations
which feature later in the story are also shown.)

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show Wham! Bam! (left) dropping out of formation. However
the smoking No. 1 engine is not entirely consistent with the
eyewitness accounts included in the loss report reproduced
earlier unless Lieutenant Rogers has managed to extinguish the

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fire in No. 2 engine reported by Lieutenant Sanders. However
Lieutenant Hunt states that the aircraft had fallen 3,000 feet
below the main formation when fifteen miles north of
Hannover (the target) yet bombs are still seen to be falling
towards the top of the picture. (Dan Winston)

Next morning, after a breakfast of pota-
toes and soup, the eight men remaining were
taken to a nearby railway station and put
aboard a train. It was now noon on the 25th
and the journey south lasted throughout the
rest of the day. Unbeknown to the Amer-
icans, they were being taken to the Dulag
Luft aircrew interrogation centre at Ober-
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during an air raid, they were taken from the
train and spent several hours in an air raid
shelter before resuming the journey around
3.00 a.m. on the 26th, and some three hours
later the train pulled into the station of
Riisselsheim, fifteen miles south-west of
Frankfurt.

During the night the RAF had mounted a
major raid on the town using over 400

Lancasters to try to knock out the Opel
motor factory which lay alongside the rail-
way line on the western side of the station.
The RAF claimed that the factory was
successfully marked by Pathfinders and
heavily hit during the ten-minute raid,
although the Kriegstagebuch of Luftgau-
kommando VII states that while the forging
and gearbox assembly areas were put out of

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The B—24 was able to keep flying for some 90 miles before
Lieutenant Rogers gave the order to bale out. All the crew
landed safely except for Sergeant Dumont who injured his
ankle. After suffering further hits, the aircraft crashed on the
Beckersjiirgen farm (rebuilt in 1948) at Hittrup — now directly

on the flight line from the post-war Miinster—Osnabrick airfield
just a few hundred metres to the west. The wreckage was
strewn in the field on the left and across the road — then a farm
track — and we discovered evidence of the B—24 from small
pieces found along its edge.

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trian precinct in the nearby town of
Greven has only recently led to the
destruction of the old Rathaus which
stood on this spot. It was to that building
that the captured crew were first taken
although the Americans had no idea of
where they were at the time.

action, 90 per cent of the other departments
escaped damage. Be that as it may, the fact
that 179 of the townspeople had been killed
did not augur well for the American crew-
men who arrived in the aftermath of the
attack. The mood in Riisselsheim that morn-
ing was ugly and tempers against the Allied
‘terror-fliers’ were running high.

As the railway line ahead was blocked, the
eight Americans, escorted by their three
Luftwaffe guards, dismounted from the
train. They could see that the town had been
badly hit; as Sergeant Brown later recalled, it
was ‘bombed completely out. The town was
flat.” For a while it seemed that the guards
were unsure of what to do next, for the
senior man, described by Brown as ‘a Lance

It has not been possible to positively
identify the next place of their detain-
ment — the Luftwaffe airfield — although
it was most probably the wartime base
at Minster. From there a stop-go train
journey of some 18 hours took them
south as far as Russelsheim. Here the line
ahead was blocked from an RAF attack
just hours earlier and the eight Ameri-
cans dismounted onto this platform.

Corporal with one stripe, a stout man, about
40 years old, about Sft 8ins tall’ left the group
and they never saw him again. The other two
guards, ‘enlisted men, one about 35 years
old, the other 38 or 40’ then started to move
the group off the station and across the
Bahnhofsplatz on the northern side of the
tracks. Sergeant Dumont with his injured
ankle was having difficulty in walking and

The RAF target had been the Opel factory
— today overlooked by a statue of its
founder, Adam Opel, standing in a re-
designed Bahnhofsplatz. From here the
crew were led by their guards towards
the Frankfurter Strasse.

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was being helped along by the other crew-
men.

It was immediately apparent that hundreds
of people were evacuating that part of town.
Adams estimating a figure of at least four or
five thousand people ‘leaving town on both
sides of the street’. The American airmen
soon attracted a hostile audience which very
quickly grew to a crowd of ‘between 250 and
300 people’. It still appeared that the two
Luftwafte guards had no idea of where they
were supposed to be going and, when people
began throwing stones. they made no
attempt to intervene or to try to take the
party back to the station.

Reaching Frankfurter Strasse, someone in
the crowd threw a piece of iron, hitting
Lieutenant Rogers on the head. This
appeared to be the sign for a free-for-all to
begin, and a hail of missiles began to
bombard the men. As they proceeded east
along the main road, they passed the Park
Hotel where three women came out of their
shop shouting to those in the crowd to kill
the airmen. The women joined in the general
tumult and, as the Americans stumbled
along, they were subjected to a continual
rain of blows from bricks, broomsticks.
shovels or whatever came easily to hand.

Having lost all control of the situation the
guards were powerless to stop the riot.
Reaching the junction with Taunusstrasse, a
turning on the right, somehow, either by
accident or design, the Americans were
swept or ran round the corner and down the
street which led back to the railway line.
German witnesses later recalled that all the
men were bleeding badly, one was being
carried on the back of another, and as each
fell he would be helped to his feet by his
comrades. ‘Sgt. Dumont had a broken leg
and I was helping him’, testified Adams
later. ‘We were both knocked down and I
had to leave him and run away. At the next
block I joined the other six men. There we
were all beaten with clubs and anything that
the people had in their hands.’

Sergeant Brown later described how ‘we
were attempting to help Dumont, who had a
broken ankle, along as best we could in the
crowd, but as we moved on he soon fell to
the ground; he was the first to fall and the
people pounced on him and beat him to
death right there in the street. We saw it
happen. The rest of the crew were just
shoved on forward approximately fifty yards
from where Dumont fell.’

At the bottom of Taunusstrasse, a brick
wall ran along the edge of Grabenstrasse
between the street and the railway line. Here
a ready-made supply of weapons from air
raid damage — rocks, bricks, beams and
large pieces of timber — provided the means
to set about the remaining Americans with a
vengeance. Sergeant Brown: ‘We started
moving along the wall and got a few yards.
William Adams was the next man to be
beaten to the ground. I couldn’t tell how
badly he was hurt. I fell shortly afterwards
and played possum. They must have thought
that I was dead because I was covered with
blood from the blows on my head. As I went
down I could see the rest of the boys who
were ahead of me along the wall and they
were being beaten to the ground also. I
couldn’t see much from then on as I was
playing dead.’

At this point, having been beaten to the
ground, the victims received additional
poundings from clubs until the fury of the
crowd had been well and truly vented. Then,
leaving the Americans lying where they had
fallen, the crowd began to disperse. What
happened next is recounted in Sidney
Brown’s testimony given to Walter P. Bre-
nan, an agent of the Security Intelligence
Corps of the Eighth Service Command, in
October 1945 during an interview in the
District Intelligence Office in San Antonio,
Texas. Maxine Kelly transcribed his answers.

The Frankfurter Strasse — today a wide thoroughfare lined with fashionable modern
shops. One must try to imagine it on that morning in August 1944 in the aftermath of
a heavy air raid; the road strewn with rubble and glass (if there was any in the
windows left to break); and packed with those people who had just had enough and
were fleeing the town and its motor works which had made it such a vulnerable

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Witzler came out of their tobacco shop next to the Park Hotel (on the left-hand side
and now a school) — no doubt to see what all the noise and commotion was about.

Just past the Park Hotel, the shell of a bombed out building still remains as a silent
witness to the events of forty years ago. Around this spot Philip Gutlich joined the fray
and Josef Hartgen began to incite the crowd to beat the Americans to death.

This shot is taken looking back down Frankfurter Strasse. At which the airmen were herded, beaten and bleeding, back
this point the mob reached Taunusstrasse (on the left) down towards the railway line.

The street is quite narrow, about 400 metres long, and here stood out over their vicious ill-treatment of the prisoners as
Johannes Seipel, George Daum and Johann Opper particularly they stumbled along towards Grabenstrasse.

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“With the help of the list that we had
gotten from the police chief, this is the story
that the Burgermeister told:

‘The bombing attack on the night of
August 25th had destroyed the rail line
through Russelsheim. The next morning
about 8 o'clock the crew of flyers came along
the main street of the town. (The Burger-
meister thought the flyers were Canadians as
did the other people in Russelsheim. We did
not discover that they were Americans until
the bodies were disinterred.) As the prison-
ers approached the Park Hotel, three women
who ran a tobacco shop next door, Kathe
Reinhardt. her sister, Margarete Witzler.
and the latter's daughter, Lilo, began to
shout at them, crying, “These are the terror
flyers, beat them to death.” A crowd started
to gather. The crowd was in an ugly mood as
a result of the raid the night before. The
three women then began to throw stones at
the flyers. The crowd began to increase in
size.

‘At this point, Philip Gutlich, a tavern
keeper, struck one of the flyers with a club.
The two German soldiers guarding them did
nothing to protect their prisoners.

‘The flyers now started to run. One of the
prisoners had an injured leg and two of the
others were carrying him on their backs.

‘Here the local Nazi Party leader, Josef
Hartgen, came on the scene. In true Nazi
fashion, he soon made his presence felt. He
shouted to the crowd to beat the flyers to
death and fired a pistol in the air several
times to further incite them.

‘As the hard-pressed flyers ran along the
main street, they came to a side street. They
turned into this in an attempt to get away
from their attackers. The crowd. now like
beasts, followed them. A short way down
this street a farmer, Johannes Seipel, beat
the prisoners with a club and a factory
worker, George Daum, beat them with a
shovel. All the while they were being pelted
by bricks and stones. A little further along, a
railroad worker, Johann Opper, beat them
so hard with a broom that it broke in his
hands.

‘At the end of this street was a railroad.
along which ran a stone wall about six feet
high. The unfortunate prisoners, tired and
badly beaten, turned to the right at this point
and crowded against this wall to protect
themselves from the mob. The really brutal
phase of the murder took place here. Three
factory workers, August Wolf, Karl Fug-
mann and Friedrich Wust, came across from
the other side of the railroad tracks. As the
flyers crouched together against the wall for
protection, Wust leaned over the wall and
struck them on the head with a hammer.
Wolf and Fugmann threw large stones and
railroad ties on the prisoners. Hartgen, the
local Party leader, who had played an
important part in setting the mob in action,
now took an active part in the beating and

struck several of the prisoners with a club. -
Wust came down from the wall and struck ©
the prisoners on the head with the hammer

as they lay on the ground. There were also
- three or four men in German Army uniform
who participated in the brutal beating here
— no one knew the names of these men.
Finally, when there was no more sign of life
from the victims, Hartgen shot several of
them in the head.

‘The bodies were then piled onto a farm
wagon and the wagon pushed to the town
cemetery. The bodies were left there on the
wagon. In the evening, Hartgen went to the
cemetery and some more shots were heard.
The next morning, the murdered flyers were
buried together in a common grave.’

As fourteen of the accused were still living
in Russelsheim, Major Rogers took immedi-
ate steps to have them picked up, and they
were taken into custody and held in the
prison at Darmstadt which had been taken
over by the US military authorities. Wust

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The grave had been marked with a rough wooden cross. In this picture dated June 26
local men, reputedly prominent Nazis, were made to do the digging.

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Photographs were taken during the exhumation: this one was presented at the
subsequent trial as Prosecution Exhibit 13. The autopsy showed that four of the men,
John Sekul, William Dumont, Thomas Williams and Elmore Austin, had all been shot
through the head as well as suffering formidable fractures of their skulls.

could not be found although he was later
. tracked down at at Oppenheim and, after a
long trawl through Seventh Army detention
centres holding former Nazis, Josef Hartgen
was traced and transferred to Wiesbaden for
interrogation. Left alone in his cell, he
slashed his wrists on the bed springs and was
near death by the time the suicide attempt
was discovered, but he was rushed to hospi-
tal where he recovered sufficiently to stand
trial.

Meanwhile arrangements had been made
with the US Graves Registration Group to
disinter the bodies from where they had been
buried in a corner of the town cemetery. Six
leading Nazis from Rtisselsheim were made
to do the digging and it was not until the
remains were uncovered that it was realised
that the victims were not Canadian, but
American. When only six bodies were found,
the excavation was enlarged, as almost
everyone who had been questioned had said
there were eight airmen, and at this stage
Major Rogers had no idea that there had
been any survivors. Of course no further
bodies were found.

The remains were transferred to Bensheim
where a thorough examination by the patho-
logist, Captain Berg, revealed that apart
from fearsome head and other injuries, four
of the airmen had been shot in the head one
or more times. They were then buried in the
temporary US cemetery which had been
established on the edge of town.

It was now the end of June and Colonel
Leon Jaworsky, a renowned American
lawyer from Houston, Texas, was assigned to
prosecute the case. Although six of those
arrested had been released for lack of
evidence, some proved to have been witnes-
ses and Major Rogers, now working alone on
the investigation, questioned everyone living
along the route of the death march.

The trial began on July 25 in the old court-
house in Darmstadt before a six-man military
tribunal headed by Brigadier General Garri-
son Davidson and during the trial the Com-
mission walked over the entire death route.

The eleven accused, against whom it was
believed that the charges could be developed
successfully, were defended by Lieutenant
Colonel Roger Titus and by German lawyers
of the defendants’ own choosing. The public
trial lasted six days, and forty eyewitnesses
were called for the prosecution. The defence
claimed that the townspeople were under
extreme provocation so soon after the air
raid, and that the killings thus took place
under extenuating circumstances.

Having retired for some eight hours, the
Commission announced its verdict. Josef
Hartgen, Friedrich Wust, Kathe Reinhardt,
Margarete Witzler, Philip Gutlich, Johann
Opper and Johannes Seipel were found
guilty and were sentenced to death by hang-
ing. George Daum was sentenced to twenty-
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In 1945 this field at Bensheim was a US military cemetery and it was here that the
remains were taken by the 48th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company to be
buried on June 30 in Plot U, Row 25. Today all trace of the cemetery has been
expunged, but on the opposite side of the road lies a military cemetery established in
1956/57 by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfiirsorge of German dead, many
buried by the Americans in the last weeks of the war.

The trial was held at Darmstadt in the Amtsgericht on Gustav-Lorenz-Strasse. Eleven
civilians were accused: Front row L-R: Karl Fugmann, Johannes Seipel, Kathe
Reinhardt with her head in her hands, Margarete Witzler and Josef Hartgen. Behind
are Heinrich Barthel, George Daum, Johann Opper, Philip Gutlich, August Wolf and
Friedrich Wust.


Inside the courtroom — now Court 404 — virtually nothing has
changed ... the same decor ... the same bench ... the same

chairs ... all except the flag but even then we found the
unrepaired nail holes still in the panelling!

Barthel and August Wolf to fifteen years
with hard labour. Karl Fugmann was acquit-
ted.

The trial was widely reported in the Press
on both sides of the Atlantic, and it was with
considerable amazement that. some three
weeks after the trial was over, a letter was
received by Brigadier General Davidson
signed by two men currently serving at an air
base in Florida claiming that they were with
the group in Rtsselsheim when it was
attacked. We can imagine General David-
son’s feelings as he read the following:

Dear Sir,

After reading of the trial of eleven Ger-
mans for the murder of six American flyers,
in Darmstadt, the last week of July 26. we
would like to inform you that it was Lt. N. J.
Rogers’ crew of the 491st Bomb Grp. The
papers give the names of only four members.
Here is the full crew list of those that were
killed:

2nd Lt. Norman J. Rogers
2nd Lt. John N. Sekul
F/O Haigus Tupenkjian
Sgt. Thomas D. Williams
Sgt. William A. Dumont
Sgt. Elmore L. Austin

According to the report in the paper the
Germans gave the right reports. Here is our
story: We are two members of the crew that
escaped after we were carried to the ceme-
tery.

We all got out of the ship O.K. Were
picked up right away and on the night of
August 24th we stayed at a German’s air
corp base. Two members of the crew were
wounded by flak, one in the stomach and
they kept him at the base there. The next
morning the rest of the crew, 8, started by
train to the interrogation centre down near
Frankfort-on-the-Main. We rode until about
12 o'clock on the night of August 25th and
had to go into an air raid shelter. About
three o'clock, we again got on the train and
about 6 o’clock came to the town of Riissels-
heims (sic) and we think the tracks were
bombed out ahead and we had to get out and
walk. William A. Dumont broke his ankle
when he jumped and we were taking turns
carrying him when we went into this town,
and the people attacked us. There must have
been better than 150 people. After they beat
us down we were carried to this grave yard,
and everybody walked off and left the cart.
William M. Adams and myself managed to
get off the wagon and leave. We were picked
up four days later.

We had a box with us with all our watches,
rings, wallets and other personal belongings
in and also our escape kits. This was taken
away from us during the attack. There
should be about ten times the number-on
trial.

The two members of the crew that was’nt
identified were the pilot, 2nd Lt. Norman J.
Rogers, and the navigator. F/O Haigus
Tutenkjian.

The names of the rest of the crew were
released by the New York Times before the
War Department notified their next of kin.

If it is possible, we, Sgt. William M.
Adams and Set. Sidney F. Brown, would like
to come back and do anything we can to help
in the trial.

We would appreciate if you would have
reports sent to us on the outcome of the trial.

Thanking you,
Sincerely yours,

William M. Adams
Sidney E. Brown

Although the legal process had already run
its course as far as the eleven Germans
indicted were concerned, the discovery that
two members of the crew had survived the
terrible beatings was incredible news and the

Twenty-eight witnesses were called for the prosecution and 21
for the defence. Fugmann was identified by a 76-year-old man
as not having participated in the beatings and he was ac-
quitted. Wolf claimed to be an innocent bystander, his state-
ment being supported by Barthel and, together with Daum, the
three received sentences of imprisonment. Hartgen, a foreman
at the Opel works, was identified by Franz Rinkes, a prosecu-

tion witness, as having shot four of the Americans in the head
as they lay on Grabenstrasse, and death sentences were meted
out to him and the rest of the accused. Left: Kathe Reinhardt
has to be supported by a military policeman as she is
condemned to death; centre: Margarete Witzler cries ‘Nein
Nein’ yet Johann Opper right listens with a blank stare as
Brigadier General Davidson pronounces the supreme penalty.

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courthouse to be photographed by T/4 Albert Gretz (who took
all the Russelsheim photographs). L-R: Colonel J. Surratt,
Brigadier General D. Stevenson, Brigadier General Garrison

Office of the Judge Advocate General in
Washington was immediately cabled request-
ing that the two men be interviewed and
questioned fully on the murders to see if any
other Germans present in the crowd could be
identified. As we have seen earlier, Sidney
Brown was interrogated by Agent Brenan,
and William Adams was seen by 2nd Lieu-
tenant Thomas J. Fallon of the Foreign

Positive Intelligence Section, Security and
Intelligence Division, at Dover Air Field at
Delaware, but both airmen stated that they
would not be able to identify any of the
civilians who beat them. Colonel Jaworsky
later wrote that they had ‘solemnly pledged
that they would never reveal to anyone the
horror of their experience at Risselsheim.
This was to keep the loved ones of the

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Colonel J. Dicks. Right: Normally today only the right-hand
door is used but we persuaded Herr Andel to prise open the
other one for our comparison.

murdered boys from knowing the gruesome
way they had died.’

The sentences of the court were reviewed
by Seventh Army and the Commanding
General, and General Keyes commuted the
death sentences on the two women to thirty
years imprisonment. On November 10 the
five men ascended the scaffold and were
hanged in the US Army prison at Bruchsal.

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In October 1945 the death sentences on the two women were
whe commuted and they were confined in Landsberg Prison (see
; After the Battle No. 9). However, after the flurry of press reports
during the period of the actual trial, once this was over the
whole incident seemed to die a death and the absence of any
follow-up news led Tom Williams’ father to write to the
authorities that same month.

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all a blur. I don’t want to see them, anyway.
Please have the lights turned off. My hear-
ing’s more keen that way.”

Sanderson gave the order and all illumi-
nation was snapped off. .

Condaffer’s voice boomed out. “All right,
you men! You know what you’re to do. Each
one, when his turn comes, steps forward,
speaks his piece, then steps back. All right
. .. let’s begin.”

HERE WAS movement in the showup

box, then a voice from out of the black-
ness. “You lie there!”

Sanderson’s heart hammered. Here were
the words the killer had spoken on a night
more than three years before—words which
had burned themselves deep in the memory of
the mother standing beside him. Sanderson
groped for the aged woman’s hand. It was
trembling.

“That—that’s not the one,” she managed.

“Next!” Condaffer said. '

“You lie there!”

_ “No,” Mrs. Hatch said again. “That’s not
it.

“Next!”

The shuffling continued on the blacked-out
stage as voice after voice carried out the
order. The eighteenth man stepped forward
and spoke his line. .

A sob caught in Mrs. Hatch’s throat and
-she swayed against Sanderson. “Have—have
him... say it again.”

“Repeat that,” Sanderson called out sharp-
ly. °

There was a moment of taut silence, then
the repeated words.

“That’s it!” Mrs. Hatch gasped. “That's
the man who murdered my boy. He’s trying
to. disguise his voice, but I’d know it—I’d
know it anywhere! That’s him! That’s the
is: i: Med

Sanderson caught her as she collapsed
aginst him. “Lights !” he snapped. “Turn ’em
On] vere
The showup box blazed with returning
brilliance. Sanderson blinked. Who was the
eighteenth man? The entire investigation
hinged on this single moment. If Mrs. Hatch
were wrong... .

A grim, triumphant smile crept slowly
across the big detective’s face. Up there in
the forefront of the showup box, his fea-
tures chalky and his eyes coals of hate, stood
Percy Eberlee.

The prisoner was brought to trial in Los
Angeles County superior court late in 1930.
He had denied consistently, under question-
ing following the showup, that he was re-
sponsible for Erl Hatch’s slaying. He entered
a plea of not guilty, championed--by his
lovely, soft-spoken mother, Mrs. Lorraine
Eberlee, who appeared in court prepared to
testify to her son’s excellent bringing up and

her inability to understand his wayward-.

ness.

“One thing I am certain of,” she told
newspapermen. ‘My boy could never be a
murderer.”

But that question remained unsettled after
several weeks of testimony when the jury
failed to agree on a verdict. A new trial
got under way—one that was to create a
scientific and legal sensation.

Mrs. Hatch’s positive identification of the
defendant was again a vital factor in the
case, but the prosecution pressed home even
more doggedly the factor of the- fingerprint
left by the killer in the Hatch home. °

Ugene U. Blalock, a skilful deputy dis-

trict attorney, put one fingerprint expert
after another on the witness stand, determined
to force California law to accept testimony
in connection with a print or even a fraction
‘of a print—something which it had never
recognized heretofore. Internationally known
authorities on fingerprint identification, in-
cluding the noted J. Clark Sellers, trooped

to the stand and swore that Eberlee’s middle ©

finger impression was identical with the °

print photographed from the bedroom door.

Blalock wove in the entire history of finger-
printing, from ancient times to the present,
and then paraded the details of numerous
famed court trials in which prints were
the irrefutable deciding element tipping the
scales toward conviction.

But Joseph Ryan, Eberlee’s counsel and
himself a brilliant legal light and former
assistant district attorney, stunned the pros-
ecution by charging flatly, as Bean had an-
ticipated, that the whole case was a frame-
up and the reputed bedroom print an out-

-rageous fraud. Like Blalock, Ryan also placed

top: identification experts on the stand.
Ryan handed each a photograph of the
bedroom print and received from each the

statement the picture plainly was a forgery! -

Milton Carlson, who led the”battery of
experts for the defense, stated deliberately,
“This is not a direct photograph from the
door but it is a photograph of a photograph,
and where the original came from, I do’ not
know, of course.”

Such testimony had a marked effect upon
the already befuddled jury, but Blalock
played his ace in the hole. He ordered the
bedroom ,door in question removed from the
Hatch home’and fetched into court!

The deputy district attorney grinned
pleasantly at the veniremen when the strange
exhibit was brought forward. “You'll note,”
he declared, “that this door has been newly

- Fate Worse Than Death

The young man brought before
Municipal Judge J. B. Seabrook had
better keep his promise not to do it
again. The magistrate warned him that
a 60-day: suspended sentence would
have to be served out-if he erred once
more.

The misdemeanor? The youth had
tried to commit suicide.

painted. The state will now prove beyond
the shadow of a doubt that neither paint nor
time can obscure the truth.” He made a sig-
nal. A court-appointed camerman stepped
forward and, in full view of the jury, photo-
graphed the door. The jury then accom-
panied the plate to the county sheriff’s iden-
tification bureau where it was‘ developed,
printed and returned to the courtroom.

“Now,” Blalock said, “look for yourselves.

Here’s the original photograph of the door
showing the fingerprint. And here is the pic-
ture just made. Despite the new coat of
paint, the wodd grain is clearly visible, just
as it is in the original photo taken more
than three years ago. Compare the grains.
You'll find not one shade of difference be-
tween them. And if that is true, then there
can be no forgery here!”

The 12 men compared and were impressed.

On* February 27, after three weeks of
trial, they brought in a verdict finding Percy
Harry Eberlee guilty of murder in the first
degree but saving him from the rope by
recommending life imprisonment. Addition.
ally, the defendant was convicted of one count
of first degree robbery. Superior Judge Wal-
ton Wood imposed a life term in San Quen-
tin on March 7, 1931.

Pierre Saleno, by the very nature of his
crimes, fared less badly. He was found guilty

‘of four counts of robbery and sentenced to
_ San Quentin to a term of from five years

to life, winning freedom on parole seven
years later.

Eprror’s Nore: To spare possible embar-
rassment to innocent persons, the names
Rudolph Holding and Blossom, used in this

story, are not real but fictitious.

POW Camp
Mystery

(Continued from page 32)

*for.punishment just as though the murder

victim had been a respected citizen of nearby
Phoenix.

When he was captured in June of 1943,
Drechsler had in his right leg a bullet wound
received in a battle between his submarine
and a surface craft of the U. S. Navy. He
was taken to the naval hospital at Norfolk,
Va., for treatment and remained there until
his transfer to the P. W. camp on the day he
was slain—March 15, 1944.

An investigation marked by brilliant sleuth-
ing of a scientific nature solved the mystery
and resulted in the execution of Drechsler’s
seven slayers. But, until the war ended, the
facts were withheld under Army censorship
regulations. This is the inside story of the
case. .

Colonel Gerald Church of the Ninth Service
Command, Salt Lake City, was assigned to
conduct the inquiry. One by one, over 1,000
Nazis were brought before him for interro-
gation.

_ It was apparent that some of the Germans
had knowledge of the killing, but they
wouldn’t talk. The majority evidently feared
that if they opened their mouths they too
would suffer Drechsler’s fate. Others openly

* expressed their hatred for Americans and

spat that they wouldn’t give a Yank the
right time.

Through a stoolpigéon in the ranks of the
Nazis, Army officers learned that Hans
Weigner, an SS trooper, had mentioned that
he was acquainted with one of the slayers.
Weigner was subjected to a rigorous cross-
examination.

“They killed Drechsler because he was not
a good Nazi,” he stated defiantly. “If I told
you what I know, I would not be a good
Nazi.” "

In Germany, Heinrich: Himmler’s dreaded
Gestapo would have had no trouble in starting
a reluctant tongue to wagging; it would have
resorted to fiendish torture to pry forth the
secret. This fact was mentioned to Weigner.

“You Americans are soft,” he sneered, re-
fusing to reveal anything. ‘““You won’t man-
handle a captive.”

| NFURIATED after, a week of futilé effort,
the Yanks puzzled as to ways and means
of getting the close-mouthed Nazi to provide
them with the information they desired.

And then somebody suggested employing
the lie detector for this purpose.

Another Army man recommended Leonarde
Keeler of Chicago, who developed the poly-
graph while he was the director of the Scien-
tific Crime Detection Laboratory of North-
western University, which cooperated with the
Chicago police department. Famed for his
work in criminology, Keeler is known as the
“man who reads minds with a box.”

The Army slashed through a lot of red
tape. A long-distance call sent Keeler speed-

‘ ing in a. taxi to the Chicago Municipal Air-

port on May 1. With his equipment stowed
in a suitcase-size box, he flew to Phoenix,
where an Army car met him and rushed him
to the P. W. camp.

After discussing the case with officers,

‘Keeler prepared a map‘ of the compound in

which Hans Weigner was kept. This map was
divided into 20 sections, each of which con-
tained one, two or three barracks. A number
was marked on each barracks and each sec-
tion.

Then Weigner was brought into the office
where the lie detector had been set up. He
shrugged when he was asked to take the test.

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“Nobody will ever learn what [ have in
here,” he boasted, tapping his shaven head.

He was placed in a chair, and straps and
wires of the apparatus were fastened to his
chest, an arm and a hand.

The first question, put to Weigner through
an interpreter, was, “Does the man yaqu
know who helped to kill Werner Drechsler
live in this section?”

Keeler, with a yardstick, pointed to the
section marked No. 1 on the map.

“T have nothing to say,” said the Nazi
smugly.

Three inked needles of the polygraph be-
gan moving slowly over a roll of graph paper,
registering with wavy lines the changes in
the Nazi’s blood pressure, respiration and
pulse.

The same question was asked 20 times.
Each time Keeler’s yardstick indicated a dif-
ferent section. Each answer was the same—
“I have nothing to say.”

On the graph paper the German’s pulse,
blood pressure and respiration registered
normally except when the yardstick was
pointed to the No. 6 section. Then, though
one could see no change in looking at Weigner,
the telltale needles showed that he almost
stopped breathing for a moment, his blood
pressure soared and his pulse began galloping.

In the No. 6 section were two barracks—
No. 804 and No. 805. When Weigner was
asked whether the killer was housed in No.
805, the lines on the graph were normal. But
it was a different matter when 804 was men-
tioned; the polygraph’s abnormal fluctuations
again betrayed his inner excitement.

“The man we want is in Barracks No. 804
of Section No. 6,” decided Keeler.

A list cf the 24 Nazis quartered in Barracks
No. 804 was secured and read to Weigner.
The needles of the lie detector followed a
normal course until Keeler asked:

“Ts the man who took part in the murder
Otto Stengel ?”

Weigner’s blood pressure and respiration
reached a peak of tension then, the graph
showed, and revealed to the scientific sleath
that Stengel was one of the killers.

A 26-year-old sailor, Stengel denied any
knowledge of the crime, but a lie detector test
indicated that he was not telling the truth.
Just as he had done with Weigner, Keeler
went over the map, section by section and
barracks by: barracks, with Stengel.

When the Chicago criminologist finished,
he had secured the names of two accomplices,

though Stengel had uttered only denials. But -
his comrades weren’t so reticent. They broke

down under the lie detector and made com-
plete confessions, naming all participants.

Seven Nazi prisoners, all of ‘the German
navy, had taken part in the murder—Helmut
Carl Fischer, 22; Fritz Franke, 21; Guenther
Kuelson, 22; Heinrich Ludwig, 25; Bernard
Reyak, 21; Rolf Wizuy, 23, and Stengel. In
the week that followed all admitted their
guilt.

The Nazis said the slain man had revealed
to his American captors facts about the con-
struction and operation of the submarine on
which he had served. They arraigned him in
a kangaroo court in the shower room and
decided upon his punishment.

Tried by an Army court-martial, the seven
killers were condemned to die in the same
manner in which they had murdered
Drechsler. Early in the morning on Saturday,
August 25, 1945, just as the sun started to
rise, they were led to the gallows at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. It was this country’s larg-
est mass execution of prisoners of war.

Before they marched the last mile, they’ all
made their peace with the church which
Hitler mocked, and they thanked officials of
the disciplinary barracks for the comfort of
Roman Catholic priests:in their last hours.

Eprtor’s Note: The name Hans Weigner

is fictitious, the Army ‘having withheld his.

real identity.

New Year

(Continued from page 25)

crimes, ranging from tire thefts to murder,

but had cleared himself each time.

At the request of Captain Reynolds, scien-
tific sleuths extracted the bullets from the
victim. They were taken to the department’s
crime detection laboratory.

There a technician fired shots into a barrel
of sawdust from the two revolvers which had
been found hidden beneath the bar near the
sprawled body of the murdered man. The
lead pellets were then placed under a micro-
scope for comparison with the fatal bul-
lets. n

“Neither of these guns was used in the
homicide,” the investigator reported to Cap-
tain Reynolds. “However, our analysis of
the residue of powder in the barrels of the
weapons shows that both were discharged
within the space of five hours prior to the
killing.” ;

“Then,” commented Reynolds, “there was
another shooting somewhere. And it’s al-
most certain there’s a tieup between the two.”

He picked up a telephone, a direct wire con-
necting the Town Hall station with the tele-
type operator in the radio room at police
headquarters, the nerve center of the city’s
39 precinct houses.

“Transmit this message at once,” he in-
structed. “‘To all stations: Inform Captain
Reynolds, Town Hall, at once of any shoot-
ings in your district during the past 24
hours.’ ”

. Four answers were received—a_ truck
driver, celebrating the arrival of the New

‘Year, had been jailed for firing two shotgun

blasts into a garage door; a housewife, angry
when her husband staggered home intoxi-
cated, had wounded him in the left arm; a
storekeeper had shot off one of his toes while
cleaning an automatic, and a youth had been
picked up for testing his .22-caliber rifle, a
Christmas gift, in a schoolyard.

“No connections here,” commented Rey-
nolds, “Evidently no report was made on
the shooting in which these two revolvers

figured.”

The captain ordered detectives to canvass
barrooms in the hunt for witnesses to the
Dooman slaying.

“A murder in a tavern will be big news
in all North Side saloons,” he explained. “It
will be the main topic of conversation for a
couple of days. Our runaway witnesses will
be bursting to tell their stories. It’s only
human nature to hanker for the center of
the stage, especially if they have a few
drinks to dull their caution.”

Seven customers, located on information

provided by the tavern owner and bartender, .

were brought before Captain Reynolds. They
all insisted that they did not know Dooman
and had not seen the killer.

“When those shots rang out,” ‘explained

one of them, a taxi driver, “I heard a woman
scream and a man shout, ‘Look out or you'll
get plugged!’ I didn’t bother to look around.
1 didn’t even snatch up my change from a $5
bill that was on the bar. I just sprinted
forthe door. Everybody else did, too. I al-
most got my clothes ripped off in the struggle
to = through the doorway.

“Some of the people loitered outside for
a moment, but all evaporated when one fel-
low remarked that he was taking a fast

wder because the man who did the shoot-
ing might emerge and make it very unhealthy
thereabouts.”

And that, in the’main, was the theme of
the statements of all seven. Not one of
them provided any information that could
be regarded as of value in the investigation.

THE CANVASS OF neighborhood drink-
ing places, ordered by Captain Reynolds,
brought results the next afternoon. A bar-
tender in a North Halsted Street tavern
related to inquiring detectives that shortly
after the killing an excited stranger burst
into his saloon and ordered a double Scotch.

“I need this bad,” he explained, his hand
shaking as he lifted the glass to his lips. “I
just saw a man murdered in cold blood.”

The customer, gray-haired and _bespec-
tacled, described the slaying in detail.

“He told me he ducked out of Johnson’s
ahead of the killers and he was in his own car
by the time they reached their buggy—a
fancy LaSalle with whitewall tires and lots
of chrome trim,” the bartender recalled.

“He said he followed their automobile to
the Outer Drive, and South to about Oak
Street, where they swung onto Michigan Ave-
nue. All the time he was two or three blocks
behind with his headlights out. He didn’t
want them to suspect that they were being
shadowed, see? :

“Well, anyhow, this fellow told me that
at Oak Street a police squad ,took after the
LaSalle. The witness thought the cops had
been given the license number over the radio.
He turned back—he figured the cops had
things under control and he didn’t want to
get mixed up in a mess.” ,

The bartender had no idea of the identity
of the citizen who had pursued the slayers.

“Never saw him before and never saw him
again,” he said. “But the old guy certainly
had guts if he was telling the truth.”

And he had told the truth. For a checkup
revealed that a squad of park district police,
a force which patrols the boulevards and the
wide drives of the lakefront, had followed the
slayers ten or 15 minutes after Dooman
was executed.

‘But the bluecoats then had no idea that a
murder had been committed and pursued the
LaSalle coupe only because the driver was
exceeding the speed limit.

“When we started after them,” related the
park squad chauffeur, “they had a four block
lead and were.traveling like the wind. At
Ohio Street they turned west. When we got
to the corner we could see them swing north
into Clark Street.

“We gave up the chase then, figuring there

"MURDER RIDES THE BLIZZARD"

What had happened to Enid Marriott? In the midst of an unseasonable
blizzard, at 9:47 that Sunday night of November 16, she stepped off the
train at Wiggins, Colo.—and mysteriously vanished! The fate of the young,
attractive teacher was obscured by the swirling snow. But then, weeks later,
her body was dragged through a hole in the ice that covered an irrigation
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in June 1947 other suspects were implicated in the Russelsheim
killings and the Judge Advocate had photographs of the men
concerned sent to Washington with a request that the survivors

sunshine we reached Graberstrasse at the
bottom where the same houses looked out on
the scene, almost unchanged since 1945, with
the wall still remaining alongside the railway.

We had little difficulty in establishing the
precise spot where the bodies had been buried
in the town cemetery, but had to be diplomatic
when enquiring for the grave locations of the
five men found guilty and executed. When we
found the well-tended family graves, the
inscriptions gave no clue to the uninitiated as
to how they met their end at the prison taken
over by the American forces at Bruchsal, a
town mid-way between Karlsruhe and Heidel-
berg. Not realising that this is now one of the
top security prisons in the Bundesrepublik, an
initial refusal by letter did not deter us from
boldly calling at the front door to state our
business. Overlooked by armed guards and
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by a number of fierce-looking guard dogs.
Once inside the prison we were met by a
charming fréulein who quite firmly explained
that no photographs could be permitted
within the walls but that there was no objec-
tion to us taking a shot of the exterior and that
she would advise the guards accordingly.

When we reached Darmstadt, where the
American presence is still very much in
evidence, we found the court-room used for
the trial still in use for the same purpose and
were kindly allowed to photograph it by Herr
Andel.

A short distance to the south lies Bensheim,
the location of the first American burials, but
on reaching the town and making enquiries
we found that the site of the temporary US
cemetery had long been returned to farmland,
United States policy being that none of their

Adams and Brown be asked if they could identify them as being
present in the crowd. Not surprisingly some three years after
the event, the response was negative.

fallen servicemen should lie permanently in

enemy soil. All American graves therefore
were removed from Germany after the wa)
and concentrated into cemeteries constructed
by the American Battle Monuments Commts-
sion in the Netherlands, Belgitum, Luxem-
bourg and France. The largest of these is at St
Avold in eastern Lorraine where a total of
10.489 graves of Second World War dead are
laid out in over a hundred acres of tmmact-
lately maintained grounds. Here we found the
last resting place of Norman Rogers, the pilot.
the navigator Haigus Tufenkjian, and_ the
radio operator Thomas Williams. However,
because the United States authorities gave the
next-of-kin the choice of burial in a military
cemetery overseas or repatriation to America,
the other three crewmen, Elmore Austin,
John Sekul and William Dumont, were re-
turned to their families in 1948.

after Dad’s cancer was diagnosed — he died that following
March 8, 1980. My father was a special person who never spoke
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The court met, pursuant to adjournzant, .at 10355 ofclock
Aeme, al of the personnel of the court, prosecution, and a
defense, who were present at the close of the previous
session in this case being presente a

All the accused, the reporter and intergreter were also 7
presente 7 | | . | |

President: It is the desire of this court to announce ~
sentences in open court. ‘We will do that only if the audience :
demonstrates ability to maintain complete silence, with .

no exclamations. of approval or disapprovale

This court desires to make certain comments. before announe- :

ing sentencese The evidence present to this court convinced _ :

it beyond any doubt that the Dachau Concentration Canp

and the by-camps ‘of Dachau subjected its immtes to Killings,

beatings, tortures ’ indignities and starvation to an extent

and toa degree that necessitetes the indictment of everyone, -
high and low, who had anything to do with the conduct.and the.
operation of the caap. This court reiterates that although |

appointed by a conquering nations 2s a military government —

court ina conquered land, it sits in judgement under inter- coer

national law and under such lavs of hunmnity of and customs

of Inman behaviour that is recognized comonly by civilized

- people. Many of ths acts comzitted at Camp Dachau had clearly ~

the sanction of the high officials of the then government of
the German Reich and of ths defacto laws and customs of the

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then German ‘zoverment itself. It is the view of this court.

that when a sovereign state sets itself up above reasonably oe tae

recognized and constituted international law or is Will to
transcend readily recognizable civilized customs of human

and decent treatment of persons the individuals offedting —

such policies ‘of their state must be held responsible for 3]
- their part in the violation of international law and the

customs and lars of humanity. The accused and counsel wi .
stand. The accused will present themselves individually in

the order in which they are mubered before the bene):

“Martin Gottfried Weiss} the court in closed session,

at least two thirds of the members present at the time the

 gote was taken, concurring, sentences you! to deattily
hanging at such time and place as higher authority may .
“directs ue roe a

Friédrich ¥OLKeTE —_ , the court in closed s ession, se:

at least tio thirds of the members present at the Le the
vote was taken, concurring y sentences you tocath by

hanging as such time ad place as higher anne may”

‘direct.

Voser Waroliny the court in closed scseieny i at ‘Least
two thirds of the members present at the time the vote |
was taken, concurring, sentences = to death by hanging
at such time and place as higher authority may directs

Franz Xaver Trenkle ~ the court in closed session, at’

“east two thirds of the menbers present at the time the

vote was taken, concurring, sentences you to death by .

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hanging at such, time and place as higher authority 1 may direct.
Engelbert Epenis Niedermeyer~ the court in closed session,
at least two thirds of the mmbers present at the tima the.

vote was taken, concurring, sentences you to death by |

haratne at, such’time aad place as higher authority may directs

4 Joséf Seuss - the court in closed.session, at least two"

thirds of the menbers present at the time the vote was »

- taken, concurring, sentences you ‘gol@eathby hanging at, 7

such time end'place as higher authority nay directs )

Téonhard Anselm Eichberger —~ the court in closed session, a

at least two thirds of the members present at the time the

vote was taken, concurring, sentences you (to deathyby hang~-

ing at such time end place as higher athority may direct.

Wilhelu Wagner - the court in closed session, at least -

two thirds of the menbers present at the time the wots
was taken, conewsring » sentences you to ae hanging
at such time and place as higher, authority may direct. |
Johann Rick ~ the court in closed session, at- least » i
two thirds of the menbers present at the time the vote
wag taken, concurring, sentences yougiil death is hanging |

at such time and place ¢s higher authority may direct. _

Doctor Fritz Hinteraeyer ~ the court in closed session, at’ |

least two thirds of the members present at tho time the vote te
was taken, concurring, seribentes you to déath by hanging | ?
at such time and place as higher authority may direct.

pace Wilhelm Witteler - the court Ain closed session, at .

least two thirds of the members present at the time the vote

(sentences)

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8 MARTIAL JUSTICE

to execute a number of inmates of the institution who were con-
demned to die. Many problems confronted the officials of the USDB
when they were first notified that they must hang some of their in-

mates,

First, the gallows could not.be constructed oytdoors,.due: to-the
inclement weather—rain, snow, etc. Second, they must be con- _
structed in s some ‘place where’ they ‘would not attract too much at-
tention of the _inmates, ‘thereby causing neryousness ‘and, talk in
the institution, Third, the gallows should be prefabricated so ) that

a hated

they could be assembled and taken down’ again rapid]

Lt. Colonel Raymond Orr, Quartermaster officer of the USDB,
was given the mission of surveying the situation and devising the
gallows to be constructed. With the assistance of some civilian en-
gineer employees, the solution was found to be to use an old ele-
yator shaft in the Salyage. Warehause. within the walls of. the” in-.

stitution.

ore.

Two floors and a basement are necessary for the functioning. of-
the gallows. On the first floor level, a portable floor is the trap-
door, trimmed in black, with a black circle in the center indicating
the position 1 where the « condemned man is tq.stand. On the second
floor of the shaft i js a cross:-beam where the rope is made secure:

The trapdoor is operated by manipulating a large brake- like
handle. Pushing the handle releases the belt that lets the trap fall.
The condemned man falls from the first floor level into the basement
below, slightly more than his own height. Medical officers in the
basement then examine the body at frequent intervals to determine

when death is absolute.

During each execution, Lt. Colonel Orr, with three enlisted men
as assistants, are continually on hand to supervise the operation
of the trapdoor and to re-tie a new noose in the rope at the end
of each execution.

After the executions have been completed, the false floor that is.

placed on the first floor level i is ; removed i in three sections, the beam
onthe second floor ° is ‘remoyed, “and ‘then. the elevator. shaft so.
uniquely used reverts to its original role as a cargo elevator in the,
Salvage Warehouse. No one would suspect that it could be : converted |

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At midnight, July 10, the gallows received their first real test.

One by one, Walter Beyer, Berthold Seidel, Hans Demme, Willi
Scholz, and Hans Schomer were led from their cells and

across the prison yard to the salvage warehouse, where with-

- in the prescribed formality of such an occasion, even to the

legendary black hood for the victim, each-man was hanged.
A team of doctors waited in the basement for the five Ger-
mans, who, each in his turn, came plummeting down and at

the appropriate moment was pronounced dead. As each execu-

tion was successfully completed, the body was wrapped in an
army blanket and carefully placed off to the side. The whole
operation took almost four hours, a good deal longer than
had been expected, but then everybody involved was new at
this sort of thing.

At midnight, July 14, Erich Gauss made the identical trip,
followed approximately 45 minutes later by his accomplice
Rudolf Straub. The procedure was basically a reenactment
of the scene that had transpired a few nights earlier, only

this time it was carried out more smoothly and - ‘Was propor-
tionately more expeditious.

Sull in death row were seven young German submariners:

Helmut Fischer, 22; Fritz Franke, 21; Guenther Kuelsen, 22:
Heinrich Ludwig, 25; Bernhard Reval: 21; Otto Stengel, 26;

and Rolf Wizuy, 23. When July 15 dawned, the German pris-
oner-of-war population at the disciplinary barracks had
slipped from 120 to 113; the sentences of the last seven still
remained unconfirmed. The old adage, “no news is good news,”
made its way arnong the seven, but the enthusiasm with which
it was said had flagged considerably in the last few days as
they had watched their comrades depart. The hope that had
replaced their initial bitterness at the sentence was not extin-
guished, but it gave way steadily to frustration and vituper-
ation rising out of their helpless situation and their over-
whelming desire to live.

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crime, court martial, sentencing, and review were waiting
for the action of the President who was their last source of
appeal. Among the papers was a 22-page document entitled
simply “Opinion of the Board of Review”; its first page ef-
fectively synopsized their crime and the action of the military
court and the last sentence contained the substance of the one
fragile shred of hope that all seven still clung to even though
they had no way to gauge its strength.

Accused were tried upon the following Charge and Specification:
Cuarce: Violation of the 92nd Article of War.
SreciFication: In that Prisoner of War Helmut Fischer, Prisoner
of War Fritz Franke, Prisoner of War Guenther Kuelsen, . Pris-
* Oner of War Heinrich Ludwig, Prisoner of War Bernhard Reyak,
Prisoner of War Otto Stengel, and Prisoner of War Rolf Wizuy,
all of Prisoner of War Processing Station, Angel Island, Cali-
fornia, acting jointly and in pursuance of a common intent, did,
at Prisoner of War Camp, Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona, on
or abéut March 12, 1944, with malice aforethought, willfully,
deliberately, feloniously, unlawfully, and with premeditation
kill one Prisoner of War Werner Drechsler, a human being, by
strangulation... |

Each pleaded not guilty to and was found guilty of the Charge and
its Specification. Each was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until
dead. The reviewing authority approved the sentence as to each and
forwarded the record of trial for action under Article of War 48 with
a recommendation that the sentence of each accused be commuted to
life imprisonment.

The root of the frustration of the seven men, however, went
even deeper. It was incomprehensible to them that they were
tried at all by court martial. In their minds they had not com-
mitted a crime. Rather, they had done their patriotic duty to
Germany. Their fellow prisoner of war, Werner Drechsler, they
alleged, was a traitor to Germany; he had betrayed his country
and had suffered the just consequences of his treachery. Germany

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it was their duty to destroy this man before he could do any fur-
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The U.S. army obviously did not view the matter with the
same eyes. Under the authority of the Articles of War and with:
in the rules laid down by the Geneva Convention, they saw it
only as a crime of murder that clearly warranted a just resolu-
tion within the laws of the land. |

In any case, these questions had already been resolved, at
least in the minds of the prosecuting authorities, as the present
state of the seven men amply illustrated. What was of supreme
importance now was the final decision to confirm or commute
theirsentence, the ultimate answer as to whether they would live
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he could eat with them. In the afternoon the men went back
to writing letters and just talking. In a way, it seemed al-
most like an ordinary day in the basement of the castle.

Finally, the chaplain went back to Fischer to try again. They
talked for a little while, but as it dragged on, the chaplain be-
came irritated.

“Are you going to take all that bitterness with you into
eternity?” he asked.

“I guess so. Why not?”

“At midnight you’re going to face God. Don’t you know
that? And whether you think it’s just or unjust, your life
here is going to be over. Whatever’s happened here isn’t
going to matter anymore. It’s just going to be between you
and Him. You’ve got to make your own choice about
your eternal life and you’ve got to make it here, today.”

_ The chaplain sat back and breathed heavily. He had not in-
tended to get so carried away, but he had said what he, wanted
to say. ;

Fischer remained silent, staring at the chaplain. The.
other prisoners were listening, but none of them said any-
thing, either.

Finally, Chaplain Towle broke the silence. “I don’t mean
to give you a sermon, but I meant every word | said. |!
think it’s terribly important. And | think you should, too.”
The chaplain started to get up, but Fischer put out his
hand, motioning him to stay.

“I think maybe you’re right,” Fischer said.

The chaplain spent the rest of the afternoon talking to
cach of the other prisoners, helping some of them with
their letters home. The others, following Fischer’s lead,
were much more amenable now to the chaplain’s talk about
religion, and all talked freely about it. Fritz Franke was
still the most silent of all and Otto Stengel the most verbal,
but they all in their own way emitted the same feclings of
deep frustration and resignation. The men were told that
dinner would be beef pot pie, but that they could have

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something else if they wished—the Army obviously not want-
ing to break with the tradition of the occasion by not offer-
ing one of the last amenities afforded to condemned men.
Bernhard Reyak and Rolf Wizuy said they didn’t care, but
the others opted for Southern fried chicken, a dish they had
never had before becoming prisoners of war but had learned
to like over the last two years.

In the evening, the seven men were allowed to put their Ger-
man uniforms on, and then many of them went back to writ-
ing letters. At ten o’clock, Chaplain Towle told them that he
would have to leave because he had been ordered to report to
Colonel Eley’s office.

When Chaplain Towle arrived in the commandant’s office,
a number of other officers were already there along with the
newspaper and radio reporters who had been invited by the
Fort Leavenworth Public Information Office to witness the ex-
ecutions. It was dreadfully quiet in the room, the chaplain
thought. Colonel Eley briefed all of them on the procedure that
would be followed, where they would stand, and so forth. The
reporters surprisingly had very few questions. Each had been
given a folder that contained personal data on each of the con-
demned, a copy of the orders that had been confirmed by the
President, the news release on the operation and construction of
the gallows, and a menu of the food served in the disciplinary
barracks that day.

Back in the basement of the castle as it neared midnight,
Guenther Kuelsen was the only prisoner still writing a let-
ter. It was his third of the day and it was very short.

In prison

August 24, 1945

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the death sentence. Helmut Fischer had heard the words be-
fore, and he stared straight ahead as the sharp, clear voice
of Colonel Eley sliced through the silence. \When he finished,
he looked at Fischer and asked, “Do you have a last state-
ment you wish to make?”

“No. | would only like to thank the chaplain.” He looked
over at the chaplain for a fleeting moment and then turned
back to Colonel Eley.

Colonel Eley said, “May God have mercy on your soul,”
and he and the two other officers stepped to the side. Fischer
was Ied onto the platform several feet above ground level
and shown the black circle on which he was to stand. He
turned to face the audience but stared straight ahead toward
the large doorway he had come in a few minutes earlier.
Three enlisted men moved onto the platform quickly. One
knelt down and began tying a rope around Fischer’s ankles,
another gently pulled his arms behind his back: and began
to tic them. The third man, a sergeant, stood by holding a
black hood. When Fischer’s hands and feet were securely
bound, the sergeant stepped forward. Fischer’s eyes, which
had seen a scant twenty-two years of life, darted quickly
around the room before the black hood shut everything
from view. The sergeant reached up and pulled the noose
down and, after placing it around Fischer’s neck, tightened
the large knot. Fischer stood rigidly at attention, not a
movement, not even a quiver in his military bearing.

The sergeant stepped from the platform and approached
Colonel Eley. The room was absolutely silent; all eyes were on
the hooded, bound figure who stood alone now on the black
circle. The sergeant stood before Colonel Eley and gave a suff
salute, which the colonel returned. Then, without a word, the
colonel turned to the sergeant standing by the large lever, rais-
ed his arm straight out to the side, only his index finger extend-
ed, and then let it fall smartly to his side. The sergeant plunged
the lever forward and the sharp grating noise as the trap door

bolt sprang open tore through everyone in the room like an
electric shock. Fischer’s rigid body hurtled downward. Almost
immediately the rope suddenly became taut and seemed actual -
ly to jump back upwards. For a moment there wasn’t
another sound in the room. Chaplain Towle stared at the
taut rope, now swaying gently from side to side. The awful
silence was broken by the shuffling of feet and the clearing
of throats, but no words were spoken.

Chaplain Towle suddenly turned toward the entrance and
began walking quickly toward it. As he neared it, he began
to run—down the ramp and around the building and down
the slight incline at the back. He entered the only door to
the elevator shaft and went inside. Three doctors and an-
other officer were standing there, looking up emotionlessly
at the body twitching and jumping in convulsion above
them. Chaplain Towle looked at the body and then quickly
at the officers. One of the doctors, with a reassuring but
stupid smile, said, “Don’t worry, father; he’s unconscious.”

The chaplain did not say anything but quickly grabbed
the step ladder in front of the body and climbed up it. He
took a pocket knife out and cut a long slit across the front
of the black hood and then fumbled in his pocket for the
oils to anoint Fischer. When he finished, one of the doctors
mounted the ladder with his stethoscope in hand, but the
chaplain did not wait for the final pronouncement and went
back out the way he came in. He knew Helmut Fischer was
dead. When he atrived back at the front of the building,

the guard was already formed to march back to the castle
and get Fritz Franke. He joined them, and they began the

long trek across the yard.

Fritz Franke was ready when he heard the footsteps ap-
proaching. He threw his narrow shoulders back in what
appeared to be an uncomfortable position and stood staring
straight at the door through which the guard detail would
enter. He said a concise good-bye to each of his comrades

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you. I see you in my thoughts, and I know you are remaining
strong. Don’t take it so hard. One can’t tie any bonds with the
powers of fate. It has to be like this. Once again, best, best wishes.
As always,

Your Guenther

After the briefing, the chaplain returned to the basement
of the castle to wait with the men. A few minutes before mid-
night, the hollow echo of footsteps could be heard approach-
ing the corridor, and Chaplain Towle felt a terrible lump
growing in his throat. The men were silent, they were all
standing, peering out from their cells at the door. Chaplain
Towle was standing in the corridor next to Fischer’s cell.

The door was opened, and a lieutenant led the way into
the corridor. Behind him were a sergeant, six guards with
rifles, and two guards with keys. The lieutenant said crisply,
“Helmut Fischer,” and one of the guards with keys moved
quickly over to unlock the cell door. Fischer was allowed
to walk down the row of cells and say good-bye to his
comrades. It was a similar scene to the one enacted three
weeks earlier when Edgar Menschner departed, only this
time there was no gaiety. Fischer shook hands with each
man and when he reached Stengel’s cell, Stengel reached
out and clutched him by the arm and said simply, “Com-
rade.” Fischer nodded his head, a faint smile on his lips and
repeated the word.

Fischer stopped at Wizuy’s cell and said, “\We die as sol-
diers, Rolf.”

As Fischer turned to walk back down the corridor he
looked over his shoulder and said. “Don’t forget, friend.”
Wizuy did not answer but stared after Fischer, who took
his place between the guards, three on each side, one man
with keys in front, and the other at the rear. The lieutenant
and the sergeant marched the troop out of the corridor,
and the door was shut and locked behind them. The chap-
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another barred door and out into the rotunda of the castle.
The footsteps clattered loudly, and Fischer looked over at
the chaplain and saw that he was shaking. “You’re nervous.
I’m the one who should be nervous.” he said with a faint
smile.

“l am, I know.”

The door to the main entrance was opened and the marching
men continued out of the rotunda and then out of the building.
Outside Fischer looked around him and then up at the sky; it
was the first time he had been outdoors since his arrival at
Fort Leavenworth about eight months earlier.

It was an extremely hot night. The moon, bright in the
sky, illuminated much of the prison yard.

The men marched along the brick walkway and then turned
toward the salvage warehouse. The distance from the castle
to the building that housed the gallows was about 250 yards.
Light poured out of the large entranceway and down the wood-
en ramp that led to it; the entrance was normally used by trucks.
They marched up the ramp and into the warehouse; it was
very bright inside.

Colonel Eley had everyone called to attention and then read
side of him, and they stood directly in front of the gallows.
Fischer with an emotionless expression on his face could see
the platform and the noose hanging quite still above it as
he approached the colonel. Off to the side was a sergeant
standing next to a large brakelike lever that rose out of the
floor, and Fischer knew that he was the actual executioner.
The group stopped a few feet before Colonel Eley. Along
one wall of the building there stood a number of army
officers who had been appointed witnesses to the executions.
Against the opposite wall were the news reporters, silently
watching every movement in the scene unfolding before them.
Near Colonel Eley were also a number of enlisted men,

who had various assignments to carry out in the operation.
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and shook hands with all of them. Franke marched stiffly
and when he was outside in the yard barely even looked
around him.

When he stood before Colonel Eley and listened to the
execution orders being read, he stared directly into the
colonel’s eyes. The corner of his mouth was slightly curled
in an almost impish expression; and for all his twenty-one
years he looked more like a school boy being reprimanded
than a soldier about to be executed for murder. The colonel
asked him if he had a last statement, and Franke replied
curtly, “No.” Then he turned slightly toward the chaplain,
and there was a momentary trace of a smile before he walk-
ed up and took his place on the gallows. After he had been
bound and the hood and noose had been placed on him,
Colonel Eley conducted the same ritual, and Chaplain Towle
hurried out and around the building to anoint the second
of the seven men. e

When he entered the elevator shaft, the first thing to catch
his eye was not the hanging body of Fritz Franke but the
bare feet of Helmut Fischer sticking out of an Army blanket
‘n the corner of the room. Then he tended to the body of
Fritz Franke.

The reporters were allowed to make the trip back to get
Guenther Kuelsen, and they walked with the chaplain be-
hind the guard detail. In death row they stood at a discreet
distance as Kuelsen made his way down the row of cells
saying good-bye and watched as Rolf Wizuy’s arm came
out between the bars of the last cell to pat his friend on the
back as he was leaving.

Kuelsen followed the same path as Fischer and Franke
across the prison yard, occasionally reaching up to brush
the strawlike blond hair from his eyes. The reporters follow-
ed in a disorganized troop, looking like a band of curious
onlookers hurrying after a funeral procession.

The only statement Guenther Kuelsen had to make was

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to thank the chaplain for his help over the past few months.
“I did appreciate it,” he added just before turning to march
to the gallows. He stood straight and militarily correct,
and like the others before him, he did not falter once. Just
before the hood was placed on his head he tried one last
time to shake the hair from his eyes with a snap of his head,
but it fell right back down. Shortly after one o’clock in the
morning he plummeted into the basement of the salvage
warehouse.

The reporters did not go back for Heinrich Ludwig. They
stayed in the warehouse talking to each other and to some of the
army officers. The initial shock had worn off somewhat, but the
gruesome drama that was still far from over was enough
to stilt their conversation considerably.

The four ‘remaining men in death row talked very little
while they were waiting, even Otto Stengel was at a loss for
words. They all felt the men who had gone before them
were actually the lucky ones because for them it was all
over. They did not have to wait, to think about what was
happening while they were waiting. Ludwig seemed almost
pleased when the guards finally arrived to take him. As he
walked with the chaplain, he talked quite a bit, so much
so that Chaplain Towle was somewhat taken back because
Ludwig had been one of the most detached of the seven
throughout their acquaintance at Fort Leavenworth. When
Ludwig faced Colonel Eley, he had only a dull, mute ex-
pression on his face and his shoulders sagged slightly.
His last statement was brief, “My only thanks are for the
presence of the chaplains.” He would not see his twenty-sixth
birthday, and as he stood on the black circle with the two

enlisted men tying his hands and feet, he still looked much
younger than twenty-five. At 1:30 a.m. the trapdoor sprang

open, and the sudden jolt at the end of the seven-foot fall
broke Heinrich Ludwig’s neck in one clean fracture.
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out of the blankets as he arrived to anoint Ludwig. He had
to wait for a minute or two because the body was jerking
so violently that he couldn’t get up on the ladder. “Can’t
you cover up their feet?” he asked one of the medical officers.
But he was told that the blankets were not big enough and
that the army, with military preciseness, had provided them
with only seven blankets.

There seemed to be a deep fear behind the eyes of Bern-
hard Reyak when the guard arrived for him. Chaplain
Towle noticed that Reyak’s chunky hands were trembling
—but his full face was strong and emotionless. At twenty-one,
his short stocky body was in excellent physical condition
despite his long ordeal as a prisoner of war, and he walked
resolutely to his death, talking occasionally to the chaplain
as they went, but appeared deeply absorbed in his own
thoughts.

When the colonel asked him for his last words, Reyak did not
answer. The colonel repeated the question and Reyak, his mind
apparently returning to the reality of the moment, abruptly an-
swered, “No.” The black hood scarcely fit over his head and
some of his features could faintly be discerned underneath it.
He stood at attention until the trap door sprung out from
under him. At two o’clock in the morning he was pro-
nounced dead. :

Otto Stengel and Rolf Wizuy were the only ones left when the
guard detail returned to death row. Stengel was standing at the
door of his cell when the group arrived. He shook hands with
~ Wizuy and thensuddenly turned to the lieutenant, “I want to take
the picture of my wife and children with me. J want it buried with
‘me.” The lieutenant hesitated for a moment, and Chaplain
Towle said, “I’ll get it for you,” went into the cell after it and
placed it in Stengel’s shirt pocket. Outside, Stengel was almost
his normal self. He looked at the mall and remarked to the
chaplain, “Nice flowers, aren’t they? It’s been a long time since
I’ve seen flowers.” He. talked almost incessantly as they walked
and even told the chaplain he liked the last meal but that the

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portion of fried chicken had been too skimpy. As they entered
the brightly lit warehouse, however, he became deathly silent
and stood before Colonel Eley at rigid attention. To the tradi-
tional question, he said that he did want to make a statement.
“I am fortunate that | have known the chaplain. And IJ think
the colonel was very correct in handling us and we received ex-
cellent treatment while here.”

Chaplain Towle was startled by the statement and tried in his
mind to make it jell with the bitter feelings of Stengel only the
night before. He could not understand Stengel’s sudden compas-
sion, but then he remembered that he had had difficulty under-

‘standing the moods and thoughts of Stengel all along. Stengel

turned and walked almost jauntily to the gallows, but when he
looked out at all of the people staring up at him, he snapped to
attention.

His days of news-gathering were over. At the age of twenty-
six, the oldest of the seven men went to his death with his fam-
ily’s picture in his pocket. He hung in the basement for only five
minutes before he was pronounced dead; his was the quickest
death of all seven.

Rolf Wizuy was sitting on his bunk staring idly at the
floor when they came for him. He looked up but did not
rise. Chaplain Towle noticed immediately that Wizuy was
trembling; the boy’s whole body seemed to be shaking. The
chaplain stepped into the cell as if to help him get up, but
Wizuy quickly got up under his own power. “I’m all right,”
he said as he started out of the cell. Then he returned to the
Chaplain and said, “There’s nobody left to say good-bye
to,” and shook his head.

Chaplain Towle trailed behind slightly, and as he reached the
door from the corridor, he turned back and looked at the empty
cells. The seven doors were still open; there were no inhabitants
left in the death row. He thought briefly of the men sitting around
the table in the corridor talking with him, and then as he hur-
ried to catch up with Rolf Wizuy, the whole hollow, sick-
ening feeling that it was over forever descended on him,

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completely and dreadfully, and he deeply hoped he would
never see that corridor again.

Wizuy walked between the guards with the same coltish un-
steadiness that he had shown when he stormed down the aisle
of his barracks to meet Helmut Fischer just after he had learned
of Werner Drechsler’s arrival at the camp in Papago Park.
His eyes nervously flitted about the prison yard, and he was
mumbling a prayer under his breath. When he reached the
ramp, he stumbled momentarily, but he caught himself, and
then, very erectly, he marched in to face Colonel Eley. His
last statement was also only to thank Chaplain Towle. He was
still mumbling the prayer under the black hood when the noise
of the trap door cut off his words. At the age of twenty-three,
he was the last member of the group to die in the last mass

execution in the United States.
Chaplain Towle went down to anoint him, and then stayed

until Wizuy was officially pronounced dead. It took eighteen
minutes for this finally to come about. The chaplain. watched
the grim procedure as the doctors went up and down the step
ladder checking to see if death had taken place. When the three
doctors all agreed that he was dead, Wizuy was lowered and
the noose taken from his neck. The black hood was stripped
off and the bonds on his feet and hands were cut, and his shoes
were removed. An enlisted man then wrapped the body in a
blanket and placed it next to the other six. Chaplain Towle
looked again at the fourteen feet now sticking out, shook his
head, and then quickly left the building. It was 2:48 in the
morning; the entire operation had taken only three hours.

Chaplain Towle declined a ride back to his quarters, electing
to walk by himself. He was exhausted and drained, but he knew
he would never go to sleep that night. When he did get home, he
sat in a chair and stared out the window until the sun finally
came up.

That afternoon, August 25, 1945, the seven men were buried’

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disciplinary barracks. Chaplain Towle officiated at the funeral
services and the burial, and Colonel Eley and a number of other.
officers attended.

~ A week after the executions, an-army newspaper, the Fort
Leavenworth News, carried the skeletal story of the hang-
ings of the seven German prisoners of war.

Seven German prisoners of war were hanged early last Saturday
morning at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in the greatest
mass hanging yet held at the Ft. Leavenworth institution.
~ The seven men were condemned to death for the murder of a
fellow prisoner, Werner Drechsler, at a prisoner of war camp in
Papago Park, Phoenix, Ariz. They received their sentence after a
court martial held at Florence, Ariz., on Aug. 16, 1944.2. <:

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were received at the USDB last Jan. 29.
The trap was sprung on the first man at 12:10 and the last man

went to his death at 2:48 a.m. A new system for mass hangings
has been devised at the institution which saved more than an hour
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GERMANS: WWII Prisoners of Silence

Continued from E1
_in upstate New York.
By the end of the war, aided by
prison tailors who made them ci-
vilian clothes and artists who pro-

vided them with forged documents,

Germans were escaping the camps
at the rate of 100 a month, often
melting into American society.

US. intelligence officers worked
hard to recruit. “snitches” among
the newly arrived prisoners, and
they put unsuspecting inmates in
with them in bugged two-man
cells.

The information they gathered
proved invaluable to the Allied war
effort. One snitch, Johannes
Kunze, passed on details of the
camouflaging of Hamburg intended
to mislead British bomber pilots—
the roof of the train station had
been painted to resemble a high-
way, the lake had been covered
over—and others identified Nazi
camp ringleaders and shared se-
crets about German U-boat strate-

BY. :

At 10 p.m. on Nov. 4, 1943, one of
the German prisoners at Camp
Gruber in Tankowa, Okla., Walter
Beyer, a 30-year-old first sergeant
captured in North Africa, ordered
his company to assemble in the
mess hall. Johannes Kunze was one
of the last to enter. White-faced
and perspiring, he took a seat at a
table by the door. Beyer held up

sstwo notes in identical handwrit-
=ing—one unsigned, containing a
s20rief description of Hamburg’s
~-camouflaging, the other a letter,
“signed by Kunze, to his wife in

Leipzig.

“Comrades,” scan Beyer, whose
wife and 2-year-son, Edgar, lived
in Hamburg. “I am sorry and it
hurts me in my soul to be forced to
tell you some sad news, and the
case is so grave that I am not ina
position to pass judgment - myself.
Bad as it may seem, we have a
traitor in our midst.”

Beyer had hardly finished before
someone shouted, “That’s him!
Don’t let him get out!” and a score
of men pounced on Kunze, who
struggled wildly to escape the fists
and feet of his tormentors. He died
a short while later of a fractured
skull and cerebral hemorrhaging.
Beyer, court testimony later dis-
closed, did not participate in the
beating.

During the next five months,
three other informers were mur-
dered in unrelated incidents at
POW camps in Florence, Ariz.,
Camp Chaffee, Ark., and Aiken,
S.C.

The killings led to lengthy in-
vestigations—one of the suspects,
Otto Stengel, confessed only after
being forced to wear a gas mask
stuffed with onions and garlic—
and eventually 14 Germans were
sent off to Ft. Leavenworth to be
hanged after being convicted in
four separate courts-martial.

: Ee contended that he had

acted as would have any con-
scientious soldier.

“I am no murderer,” the grocer,

Sgt. Erich Gauss, 32, told the court.

“T aerety fought for the honor of
my fatherland and for respect as a
soldier, and I believe that every
decent German soldier would do
likewise... .”

The Germans’ defense was based
on the argument that their victims
were traitors and prisoners of war
were obligated to: prevent treason
against their homeland. To defend
Beyer and the four others accused
of killing Kunze, the government
assigned, part time, Lt. Col. Alfred

sandblaster at the Army Depot in
Sacramento.

He has collected 4,000 docu-
ments, many of them under the
Freedom of Information Act, and
has struggled, to put together 159
pages of a book. Evening after
evening he sits at his computer,
sifting through testimony and de-
classified Army memos, wondering
if he has overlooked some clue that
would prove the injustice of the
Germans’ deaths. Friends say to

ay
‘I can still remember the moment mother found out my
father was dead. | was 5 years old. She was cooking
beans in the back yard when it came, a simple, open
post card. She read it and started to shake. She let
out a wail that | will never forget.’

EDGAR BEYER
Son of executed POW Walter Beyer

__

Petsch, who described himself as a
country lawyer and farmer and
who told a review board that he
had “practically no experience in
matters of this sort.” The prosecu-
tor was one of the Army’s most
respected lawyers, Lt. Col. Leon
Jaworski, the eventual Watergate
special prosecutor.

Ken Knox, whose father was a
decorated aviator in Korea and
who himself served in peacetime
Korea and warring Vietnam, is
retired from the military now after
a 22-year career and works as a

him, “What are you doing with
your Germans today?” but, he says,
they aren’t really interested in
hearing.

“I can’t explain why this thing
has become so important to me, I
really can’t,” Knox says, “but it’s
been like an ulcer. I keep thinking
of the families-in Germany who’ve
been told their father or grandfa-
ther died as a criminal, when this
wasn’t the case at all. We'd consid-

er Americans who did what they

did heroes.”
The Germans lingered on Death

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t

Row in Ft. Leavenworth for a year.
During that time, 15 of the 90,000

- Americans being held prisoner-on

German soil were also sentenced to
death, and Washington and Berlin
began negotiating through Swiss
intermediaries on a prisoner ex-
change. Both sides agreed not to
execute anyone until the negotia-
tions were complete.

“No death sentence imposed on
German prisofiers of war in this
country: will bé@ carried out,” said a
classified message from the assist-
ant chief of staff to Ft. Leaven-
worth authorities on April 28, 1945,
“. . . until further order from the
personnel division.” ©

Nine days later, the war in
Europe ended with the German
surrender. The 15 Americans sen-
tenced to death were returned to
the Allied command, and President
Harry S. Truman signed the Ger-
mans’ death warrants, despite the
recommendation of a review board
that the sentences be commuted to
life imprisonment.

Just past midnight, July 10, the
first batch of five Germans prison-
ers, all former members of Rom-
mel’s famed Afrika Korps, were
taken from their cells after a meal
of stew, steamed rice and cake.

It was 300 yards from Ft. Leav-
enworth’s solitary-confinement
wing, known as the Castle, to the
warehouse gallows, and in bright
moonlight, accompanied by a
Catholic priest and an Episcopalian
chaplain, the prisoners crossed the
courtyard Sgt. Ken Knox would
spend so many hours looking at
years later. At their request, all
wore their military uniforms. Sgt.
Walter Beyer was the first to
approach the American soldiers

we

who waited by the noose.

“The prisoner appeared none too
robust and his cheeks were
drawn,” William H. Radford re-
ported the next day in the Kansas
City Star. “A black stubble, match-
ing his hair, indicated that he had
not shaved for at least 12 hours.
His eyes were those of a trapped
beast. They moved nervously from
right to left. But he never turned
his head or moved his chin from its

: jutting position. - .

“A noncommissioned officer
standing beside him removed Be-
yer’s cap and placed a black hood
over his head. There was a brittle
command, ‘Right face, forward
march,’ and the Nazi pivoted on his
right heel in rhythm with the
bodyguard of soldiers that brought
him into the building and stepped
off the remaining 30 feet to the
gallows. His bearing was military
to the last.”

ee wife knew something
was very wrong early that
spring of 1945 because her hus-
band’s letters stopped. But it was a
year before she learned that he
was dead and several more before
she learned the circumstances of
his death. By then she could not
afford a trip to the United States to
claim the body.

“I can still remember the mo-
ment Mother found out my father
was dead,” said Beyer’s only child,
Edgar, 49, the assistant manager of
a Hamburg bank. “I was 5 years
old. She was cooking beans in the
back yard when it came, a simple,
open postcard. She read it and
started to shake. She let out a wail
that I will never forget. It must

Please see GERMANS, E5



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cere nD ee po oSttiw.s

Rudolf Heinvich Suttropl the court in closed sessicn, ab

least two thirds of the members present at the time the vote :

was taken, concurring, sentences you to a@éath By hanging at |
such time and place as higher authority may directe
Wilhelm Tempel - the court in closed session, at least

two thirds of the members present at the time the vote

was taken, concurring, sentences you to death by hanging ‘at : ce

such time and place as‘ higher authority may directe ~~ |
Hugo Alfred Erwin Lausterer ~ the court in closed session,

at least two thirds of the members present at the time the —

vote was taken, concurring, sentences you to imprisonment for .

a term of ten years comnencing 13 December 195 at such place
as may be designated by competent military authority. —

Fritz Me K. Becher - the court in closed session, at

| least two thirds of the members present at the time the

vote was taken, concurring, sentences you to death by hang~
ing at such time and place as higher authority may directs.
Alfred Kramer ~ the court in closed sasctcn, at least | |
two thirds of the members chesent at the time the vote
was taken, concurring, sentences you to death’by hanging
at such time and place as higher athority may direct. |
| Sylvester Fillebosck)~ the conrt in closed session, at
least two thirds of the members present at the time the vote
was taken, concurring, sentences you to death by haging .

at such time amd place as higher authority may direct. -

(sentences)

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Least two thirds of the merers present at the time the vote eee

was taken, concurring, sentences you (to eenttif>y aca as
such time md place as higher authority may direct.
Albin Gretsch - the court in closed session, at least

two thirds of the members present at the time the vote

_ Was taken, concurring, sentences you to imprisonment for

a term of ten years commencing 13 Decenber 1945 at such
place as may\be designated by competent military authority.

Jokers Viktor Kirsch’ - the court in closed session, at

leart two thirds of the members present at the tins the vote : Se die

‘as taken, concurring, sentences you %o death by hanging at —

such time and place as higher authority may direct. |
Enil Erwin Mahl -. the court in closed session, at least

two thirds of the members present at the time the vote |

aas taken, concurring, sentences you to death by hanging

at such time and place as higher authority may directs‘

Wal ter Adolf langleist/ - the court in closed session, ab:

least two thirds of the members prasent at the tine the vote

wes taken, concurring, sentences you to ceath by hanging at

such time and-place as higher authority may directe-——-. >

| Johann Schoepp - the court in closed session, at least |

tivo thirds of the members present at the time the vote

was taken, concurring, sentences you to imprisonnent for a |

term of ten years cammencing 13 December 195 at such place

43 may be designated by competent military authority

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Racial Composition of Executed Soldiers/England*

Murder Rape Murder & Rape Total
Black 5 62.5% 6 85.7% 14 25% | 12 63%
White 2.25 % 0 3 75% 5 26%
Other 1 12.5% 1 14.3% 0 2 10%
(minority
Latino?)
Total 8 100% 7 100% 4 100% 19 99%

*In the last column Total percentage does not equal 100% due
to rounding.


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286911
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14 Dec 1943
8 Jan 1945
8 Jan 1945

7 April 1945

FRANCE

MURDER N = 20

CM ETO 3932 Kluxdale 288505 31 Oct 1944
" " 5765 Mack 288771 15 Feb 1945
22. 2" " 4292 Hendricks 288129 24 Nov 1944
23. +" " 4294 Davis 283439 27 Dec 1944
24. 2" " 5137 Baldwin 287413 17 Jan 1945
25. 2+" " 9305 Johnson 288384 26 June 1945
26. =" " 5451 Twigs 291296 22 Jan 1945
27. 2" " 9291 Clay 286393/343 4 June 1945
28. +" " 8691 Heard 287819 21 May 1945
29. +" " 7253 Hopper 288114 11 Apr 1945
30;°° ™ " 11269 Gordon 286910 10 July 1945
31. =" " 7871 Green 287605 15 May 1945
32. 2" " 14053 Wray 296038 20 Aug 1945
33. 2+" " 9422 Norris 289745 31 May 1945
34, " 11178 Ortiz 289785 21 June 1945
35, 2" " 9294 McCarter 288535 28 May 1945
36. +" " 10740 Rollins 300615 31 May 1945
37.2" " 12850 Philpot 298666 10 Sept 1945
38. +" " 13379 Robison 303097 28 Sept 1945
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Name

TAYLOR, John W.
THOMAS, Madison
TILL, Louis

TWIGGS, James W.

VALENTINE, Leo

WATERS, John H.
WATSON, Frank Jr.
WATSON, Ray

WATSON, Joseph
WHITE, Armstead
WHITE, David
WHITEFIELD, Clarence
WILLIAMS, Ellsworth
WILLIAMS, John
WILLIAMS, Olin W.
WILSON, J. P.
WIMBERLY, Willie J.
WRAY, Robert

YANCY, Waiters

Serial Number

37485128
38265363
36392273
38265086

32954278

32337934
34793522
33139251
39610125
34401104
34400884
34672443
34200976
32794118
34649494
32484756
36392154
34461589

37499079

Name

KENDRICK, James E.
KLUXDAL, Paul M.

LEATHERBERRY, J. C.
LUCAS, William N.

MACK, John M.

MACK, William
MAHONEY, Joseph J.
MARINO, Blake W.
MARTINEZ, Aniceto
MAXEY, Curtis L.
McCARTER, William J.
McGHEE, Shelton Sr.
McMURRAY, Fred A.
MIRANDA, Alex F.

NELSON, Henry W.
NEWMAN, Oscar N.
NORRIS, Clete 0.

ORTIZ, Victor

PARKER, Woodrow
PEARSON, Robert L.
PENNYFEATHER, William
PHILPOT, Henry C.
PITTMAN, Willie A.
PHYGATE, Benjamin

ROBINSON, Charles M.
ROLLINS, Alvin R.

SANDERS, James B.
SCHMIEDEL, Werner E.
SCOTT, Richard B.
SKINNER, Robert L.
SMALLS, Abraham
SMITH, Charles H.
SMITH, George E., Jr.
SMITH, John C.
SMITH, Willie
SPEARS, Charles E.
SPENCER, Elwood J.
SPINKS, Mansfield
STROUD, Harvey

Serial Number

14026995
36395076

34472451
36639075

34042053
32620461
12008332
38011593
38168482
34554198
34675988
34529025
38184335
39297382

35726029
35226382
37082314

30405077

34561139
38326741
32801627
39080069
34400976
33741021

38164425
34716953

34124233
7041115

-38040012

35802328
34512812
36337437
33288266
33214953
34565556
32337619
33739343
36793241
38235131

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Newman, Oscar N.

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Wilson, J.P.

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Farrell, Arthur J.
Holden, Mervin
Spencer, Elwood J.

Pearson, Robert L.

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Jones, Cubia

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Yancy, Walters
Guerra, Augustine M.
Clark, Ernest Lee

Williams, Olin, WwW.

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98.

99.

100.

¥ 101.

102.

103.

104.
105.

106.

Harrison, Wm. Jr. W
[enlisted @ Ft.

- Thomas, Ky]

Bailey, Milbert B
Williams, John B
Jones, James L. B
Parker, Woodrow B

Bennerman, Sidney Jr. B
Mariano, Blake W. NA

Donnelly, Robert L.

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates
Watson, Ray

Spears, Charles E.

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates
Smith Charles, H.
Makey, (?) Curtis L.

Kendrick, James E.?

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates
Burns. Lee A.

Crews, Otis B.?

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates
Grant, General L.
‘McMurray, Fred A.

Till, Louis

4-19-45BAC
4-19-45EAC
4-19-45EAC
10-15-45EAC
10-15-45EAC
10-10-45EAC

5-31-44C
5-31-45E

differ]
8-29-44EC

4-18-44C
4-19-44E.

differ]
9-6-43EC
11-16-44¢

717-430
11-24-44E

differ]
3-27-4A5C

3=Z24745C
2-21-45E

differ]
3-27-4A5EC
7-2-45EC

f=2=45EC

Y

Y

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NAME

107.
108.

109.

RACE

Mock, John H.
Nelson, Henry W.

Jones, John T.

110.Jeffries, Charles H.

Lil.
ie ae
113.
114.
115.
Lis
117.
118.
119.

120%

121.

122.
1233
124.
125%

126.

127.

128.

Jones, Kinney
McGhee, Shelton, Sr.
Taylor, John W.

Swalls, Abraham

Spinks, Mansfield

Ervin, Charlie Jr.
Stroud, Harvey
White, David

White, Armstead
Pittman, Willie A.
Jones, Edwin P.
Schnieder, Warner(?)
Peoples, James B.
White, Lloyd b. Jt.
Thomas, Cornelius

Brown, Arthur T.

DOE
3-20-45EC
7-5-45EC
7-5-45EC
7-5-45EC
3-20-45EC
5-4-45EC
3-20-45EC

3-27-45EC

10-19-45EC

£0+19=45EC

8-30-43C
8-30-43C
8-30-43C
8-30-43C
1-5-44EC
6-11-45¢
9-2-44EC
10-2-44EC
8-1-45EC

9-2-44C
10-2-44E

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]

Gibson, Andrew.
{NOTE: see above]
Green, Leroy E.

[NOTE: see above]

9-2-44C
10-2-44E

9-2-44C
~10-2-44E

E A Cc P
Y oN Y
Y oN Y
Y oN Y
Y oN 4
Y oN 4
Y oN Y
Y oN Y
Y oN Y
Y N 4
Y N° Y
N N Y
N N Y
N N 4
N N Y
Y N Y
NN Y
Y N Y
Y oN Y
Y oN Y
Y oN Y
Y oN 4

b 4 N Y

Table II

Executions by Year

tne teens Senem Stent Games cant Senne Hate KemEe tanEe KOnee ROEEH PORE GanGE AeRE Aone Henge ennee enmee tanen Sane OnINS fauny SaRae Mann Hannd Home HME MOIR Saban Hein SER onthe On Ohete One FORES Haat HONE Hones mnMnG Genes bond GanMe Henne Beane Raeny Shane

Year. N Percentage
1942 v4 Lew
13437

1 +4 gee ps BA
19449 4? 74. eae A
1945* 88 60.0%
19-46 1 a a A

— total—sti—<isé‘—‘iSO*‘“‘“‘ié‘*é‘ésCSCOC™*;*C*~™”

=, During the examination af the various Army recerds fer
this preaject, it was discovered that seven of the executions had
inconsistent execution dates. Until we learn otherwise, the
earliest date is recorded as the correct date. One of the
inconsistencies invelved 13944 vs. 1943; it was recarded far
1943.

°, See fn 2. for an explanation. Five of the inconsistencies
involved 1945 vs. 1944. We record these as 1944 executions.

4, The last incensistency involved 1346 vs. 1945. We
recorded 1945.

2
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(NATO 213)
967 véEY Jones

44. 267488
(NATO 1070)

A 45. 267651
#46. 267651
#47. 267651
#48. 268280

49. 269746
(NATO 3940)

50. 270825"

51. 270659
(NATO 218)

52. 272321
(A-1672)

53. ~273929
54. 276262

55. 277371
(A-1780)

56. 2811235

57. 282187
(A-1897)

58. 283439

59. 284636
(MTO 6637)

60. 285325
61. 285969
62. 285969
63. 286064

64. 286135

VEIN 247
Jones, Edwin P.

bo). 9 Y
Boswell, Dan Y/ /V? 2¢ T/5

44
Thomas X4A/U7 3§

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Gill XLVI BE
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Davis, Lee R. xL/V: 26) G.P.

Maxey, Curtis L. “/Z

4S
Stevenson, Clinton YZV‘2¢'7

Kendrick, James E. “%¢Z

Hawthorne, Samuel //Z

47
Reid, Herbert XZ Vi) 21!'4

Harrison, William, Jr. /Z

Baker, Henry UZ T/5

Gibson, Charles D. lol, S¥-45°

Crabtree, Harold /CL Sgt

Davis, William E./7/Z - PFC

Schnieder, Werner w/l

Downes, William Cc.
Sanders, James B. T/5
Anderson, Roy W. UCL
Farrell, Arthur J. /Z

Bailey, Milbert /

USA

P/ITO

ETO

ETO

(A-73)

25. 261479
(A-1385)

26. 262462
(NATO 2022)

27. 262475
28. 262475
x 29. 264081

30. 264563
(A-1410)

31. 264698
(NATO 2880)

ke 32: "264864

3396S Go
&
34. 265499
38. 265499
" ~26564 €
(MTO)

Ko 40 ne5,-266723

41. 267110
(NATO 1672)

42. 267173
(A-1517)

43. 267198

Peoples, James B. Uf
Donnelly, Robert L. UZ

Brinson, Eliga /L

Smith, Willie YZ

Richie

White, Lloyd L. Jr. YZ
Watson, Ray “2

Thomas, Cornelius
McGarry, Leroy

(NOT ON ANY PREVIOUS LIST)
Brown, Arthur T. “Z

Gibson, Andrew YZ

Green, Leroy E. Uf

Horn, Charles A. YZ

Washington, Eugene a. YC

weitbern , evdron X41 279
Burns, Lee A. (ZZ

#2
Jones, CurnL. yh//: 1S3

Spears, Charles E. “ZL

Ferandez, Avelino //

Smith, Charles H. VL

Z

P/ITO

P/ITO

i.

MTO

P/ITO

NAME

cee

34

35.
36.
37.

=
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39.

i” 38

40.

41.

42.

43.
44.
45.

46.

47.

48.
49.
20.

Dk «

Gibson, Charles D.

(NOTE: CM #'s same;

. Cobb, David

Smith, Harold A.
Waters, John

Leatherberry, J.C.

Harris, Wiley, Jr.
Pygate, Benjamin

Kluxdale, Paul M.

[NOTE: CM #'s same;

Johnson, Willie

[NOTE: CM #'s same;
Twiggs, James W.
Clay, Matthew, Jr.
Heard, Haze

Hopper, Benjamin F.

Gordon, Tom

[NOTE: CM #'s same:
Green, George, Jr.
Smith, George E.
Wray, Robert

Ortiz, Victor

RACE DOE

J=9- 4 5C
9-24-45E

dates differ]

B 3-12-43EAC
W 6-25-43EAC
W 2-10-44BaAC
B 3-16-44EAC

5-30-44EAC

B | 5-26-44EAC
B 11-28-44EAC
Ww 8-31-44¢

| 10-31-44BA

dates differ]

B 6-26-45AC
6-26-44E

dates differ]

B 1-22-45ERAC
B 6-4-45RAC
B 5-21-A5EAC
B 4-11-45EAC
B 6-10-45¢
7-10-45EA

dates differ]

B 5-15-45EAC
W . 5-8-45EAC
B 8-20-45EAC
B 6-21-45EAC

(3

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L exeewted U.S. Soldievs | ww |

COURT RECORD

NAME R* DOE” E> = A* c>  P*
1. Mickles,Carlon | 4-22-A71C | Y N | Y
2. Abney,William 12-1-47¢C Y N Y
3. Norman, James 4-25-AT7C A 4 N Y
4, Martinez, Manuel 4-23-48C ¥ N Y
5. Armistead, Stratman 12-17-48C Y N Y
6. O'Brien, Bernard J. 7~31-54C N N b 4
7. Riggins, James L. aH i—S5 N N Y
8. Beverly, Chastine 3=1=55C N N Y
9. Suttles, Louis M , 3-1-55C N N Y
10. Brinson, Eliga B 8-11-44AC N Y y E
11. Smith, Willie B 8-11-44AC N Y  Y E
12. Norris, Clete O. B 5-31-45EAC Y Y Y F
13. Beven, Harry R. 9-26-44EC Y N Y
14. Curry, William D. 4-20-45FC Y N.Y
15. Slovik, Eddie D. W 1-31-45EAC YY YF
16. Rowe, James L1l¥6=42C Y N Y
10-17-42E~

[CM #'s same; execution dates differ]
17. Sykes, Jerry 1-19-43EC Y N Y

\
18. Line, Francis A. 3-26-43C a 4 N Y
unkown E

19. Knapp, George 8S. 3-19-43EFC Y N Y
20. Bohn, Walter J. 8-6-43C Y N 7

7-?-43E

[NOTE: CM 3's same; dates differ]

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Military Executions in World War II (By Ct-M Number)
Ct-M Number Name Grade Theater
Ls 222480 Smith “4
x a 223574 Rowe, James USA
+ 3- 224549 Sykes, Jerry SSgt USA
#e*- 227335 Line, Francis A. USA
% 5. 227365 Knapp, George S. USA
x &- 531757 Bohn, Walter J. USA
HK 7- 232790 Brandon, Levi USA
8. 237819 Heard, Haze YZ PFC ETO
we 9. we243674 Bevepyf (xr), Harry R. USA
10. 250981 Bell, Thomas GZ ns, ETO
11. 252242, Reichel, Edward J. L:53 USA
12. +253195) Davidson, Robert L: G7 USA
13. 255335 Beshense [: 73
14. ~255335 List Lids
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15. 255438 Hurse, Fred L:/07 = USA
ywié6. | 257550 O’Connor, John R. XXXVI! 5/63 USA
17. 258068 Cobb, David %¢/2 ETO
18. 258069 Waters; John (/Z ETO
19. 258070 Smith, Harold A. 44 ETO
20. 258072 Davis, Lee A. YL ETO
K 21. “258845 Davis, Sylvesta USA
xX 22. 258883 Williams, Charles B. USA
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24. 261174 Leonski, Edward J. UZ P/ITO

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FREITAG, : jal dome te

(us. v8 Heinrich 3 SOGER A: ‘21) ‘Tried 26. Yay a

~ JaBGER,. Heinrich. ~ 28 Sonthes:
KUENNEMALN , Robert. Ze years. ayes ars”
SCHL ‘Herman 2h yous , 2 years:

1251 (US vs vithels sarestoH) Tried sats a7

28 months — Ea 29 Sept 2a
m7 39 Sept. 47, z
29 Sept. anc

‘ase Hoe _Le=

rom ANGEIOE, ‘4qhelm “Death zs ee ‘Death — Me
ie Felix BAUER). ees e ieee ee eS PE ene ee

“Case Noe 12-3193B & Soni, & 12-1462. & ; 12-2701, & 2000-12-63 -

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Bote eAUS vs Georg Baany o, al) Tried 20 Oct = cet a oot st eS

7
ang UM, Rcored 3 “2 years. ree ¥s “28 ‘June. 48 88g
BAUMANN , Heinrich vs Death free: Death = we 24 June 48
TAGE “Frang 10 years. = ..5 years 9A June 48
, ENDRES, Norbert Teathe ife es. of June 48
~ GUNDELACH , Oswald Death. . Life =: —.. 24 June AB Aa
EMVER, albert.’ Dust ee Death apni wate tee Api ves :
HaNS, Kurt <<" Doaths . 1, Death =. ee, 24 June 48~ eee
SELIMUTE, Karl 3 years % years: - mz y OA Sune, 48. od i
_BELLMUTH, Otto . " Death ve Uife. 3s aes 2A June AB :
INGEBRaND, /Andreas — Death» ~~ Death Sees; 94 Sune 4B. 7 a
24 yond. 48 |

ee “Biehaed Death Bes Death aos : ;

Caso Gace Noi on 12-8208

CONRAD, Oswald eet S 20 years, . 20 pers: be oo ie ‘Oct ‘a7
: | os "29 Oct 47

DREGER, Kurt

HAUENSCHILD, Harry =- 20 years - © years: ‘
‘18 Oct 47 —

f MUELLSR, Brich  - 20 years . 20 years.
SCEROTDER, Karke, Life er ~ Lifes. sp 18 Oct 47. f 3
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Meee Ae ey ‘
ss dh Rally MOP CINE AB LIRR. hic

Lite Seas t, Mle ce ere kar
BELDMEIER, Yejdemar_Lifé. Life iso. Ss 20 Oct 47: =* Sean
) oe 18. O0b A785 ie

“OF DEATH. SENTINCES es

) ried 22 Jan At ie eae : = oe te : rie e

“Case Nos 12-2971 =

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_Sase oy O0dBuche 0142.20 (oss v8 Fetedrich _bawess) tried. 0. ‘Oct a7 ee a: oe
+i vigts eee ig

DmOMER, ‘Fricdrioh* = 10° youre. i Disspproved 8 dor. 43 ies? Sh

7 Caso Toe (od-Buchenvald=28 (uss vs Johann ‘singe ried 1 Yow 47 Spee a ee
ae SINGER, Johann ae acquitted BPS, eee Ue ow eras, Bere eas

“Caso — 000-Buchénwalé25 (us v8 suet arse Tried 39 sept ar

OF

. 4 years a years” “48 Mar Cy a eee. as ae

He

“Case Noe 0o¢-Duchenwald-26 (as vs 5 Paul wpa) riod 27 Oct 47 a, eS:

34
SIP ESe

ee ore, cangust

WELLER, Poul “15 years a “is yeare oer 2 War, 43° es

‘Caso Nox_000-Buchenval4-81 0s 3 vs nd c Fiber) Tried 21 Oct EVE

eee FISO=ER, budwig 3 “acquitted 4, ee oe ies Pes ee ;

“Coss Mos 000-Bushenval 4.36 tus vs Klaus Ferdinand svar) Tried 4 Nov 47
| % ‘HUES; Kaus ne ik _sogult ted Sake oe oe : ie Beodetan et peck r rhe if oe AS

‘Case Ys cotta (ws vs Heinrich a) ‘Tried 3 Nov ATs ee

x
4

es ZWICK, Hoinrich Death” goers Tsapproved : 18 Nay. 4a eae Whe eee

“Caso oy. (o0-Buchsnvald 40 (083 xs adolf wwe) Tried 20 Nov a7

2 Mar 48 ae eee
’ ee ; tS See
rigs = . “Case Woy (Oop Bucheawel 4 (os vs Josef. sont Trted 1s oe aq

poe “ite © 25 May 291

- WORTEE, “Adolf. ee Es a years 4 years.

SOR, “Joset Di exproved
Case Nos 000-Puchenwala42 (us » vs Otto > Keats) tried 20 Oct Als

25 Mar 48.

a3 os eS,

“KRAUSE, Otto - soe io years. Z 10, ‘years -

»

Gao Nos” (000-Buchenwaian49 ler vs ‘Ferdinand plat Tried 21 Nov 47

/ ; ee gg ' x *~

Tan, Tordtnand acon thea ee pare ne ee ae : te! CO a i

‘Gase Noe coa-Buchenvald 50 (ws § vs 5 Heme trod SERGE at 1). Tried 3 3 Doe 42 ae

~~
Pie rege Vea

BERGER. Werner ae a “lte- eR ‘Lite ay a 26 Tone 48° Boe or as oe car SD 3
o vial Prodietein ken cece : Sf eh ages 5 eee a ee eee
BERGT, Helmuth © acquitted Eee ret ee hal Pea ye jy Bee ela aes :
= ree Friedrich Ghee es seek e Game me ;
30% BRESSER, Josof’.3i0., 15 years _- 15 years _ 26 June 48 ©
_ DIPPRICH, Horst... Life“. = Life~ 26 June 48 4
HILBERGER, Wiegand 20 years= = 20 years’ «> ‘ 26 June 48. © ag
MOSCKEL, Horbort 20 yéars’ = 20 years ~. 26 June 48. 3

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a Wee C250 Yo, “12-3045 ws. vs otto ormann ston) Tried 16 Mayr a7

— sto17, Otto Hermann Death Bae Death uae tae 26 Oct 47 uv Yov an

Dy Foor nptes ieee yee Phe

“HINDERER, Wilhelm hequitted «a ee oot : ea Hho © be

| HOFRAN, “Alfred” Sn years. 5 years. ree 19 Mar 48 : : es
“anaroas ; z eee eae ah Yas Se of eat as se Lee

Bee 2 uifs, 2 Be Tite 1) 26 Bob 48.

i WOLKE, Johannes... ~~ 20 y-ars sd years 14 “oT 43

KUNI ROWS‘, gifone 2 7 years ue oe years” ae oa 16. Mar 48. _ : rece. :

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so = ace Noe poo Bushenwald=2 sy vs “atte im HINDER RER et a1) Tried 27 ang a7

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280 os -090-Bachenwalé3 “(us vs 5 Senet Fmil J- aad Tried 3 ov 47 | a ot

SaCKOBS, mst Tmil - 1s ye ars’. aS 15 years. ee oC 3B DP 48 . ws ook i eo:

“ Gase Moe Qod-Puchenwal 4 (US vs alfred sndress HOTRY: x) ‘tried 17. Sept. Alo ag

= Case Noe op0-Sushenwaléns ws vs Josef een) ried 15 Sent “42

MUELLER, ‘Joset en Deaths tas Life : ee 16 Or 48 Mepis Bs Re ae
=e y 3 ye ten =: My
» .Gase Hoi 0p0-Buch cavale (os v8 Karl Briich WEYRAUOH). tried 27 Oct 47° 2

sa a

“WERRAUOY, Karl Erich 10 3 years — Z years ae ret 37 Tee 48.

es

Case Nos 000 Bushe onvald7 (os pate ing BLUME) Tried OA Ocb AT Te ee Lee

€ a : P PRE |
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mM 4pF AB é a ties

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SLMS, eins Death és ; iy 6 years

apcbaae

Caso. No, honsvonenwslt | (us: vs Vic ‘tor “‘BaNTSUE: <27NKO ) Tried 16 Oct 47.‘ be

seh sma

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“Case Yo, “o00-Bushe seat Rep tvs ve elnrich STOR ried ‘3A Oct 47.

3

BUUCK, “Reinrich © ve Death Py. Death. es 23 ar Bo

rip senpcggeiant® ee er a

C40 Fos: Oo0-Puchenv) é-11 (us vs Tenaz, SEITZ 3 = “trted 6 Nov Az”

‘ £ rif

10 years 240 Years?’ *. 4 44. Apr. 48

‘fase “los 00-SuchenvalA- 13 (US vs_alfons cUNIONSET) Tried 28 Oct 47

ere pins et te EY PRG Shs

cass Kos coo-Buchenvali-14 (US vs “Max Paul nil “voosE) Tricd- 7 Oct ay ?
Voom, Max Paul. ‘Seti A “ye: “Ts 4 years | 23 Mar 48 eet

fase Nos ‘c00-Buchenwia} 4-17 7 (us vs" adam sSUHDRAND) riod 13. Ook a7

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8 “Yife. " 20 years FS ee 2 Feb re ee ee
Death © fare “hife. oa aN OO Feb 48. es

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“somurD, Sobastian Life. 20 yoors \ 18 Mey 48+ aoe

ah Caso Noy. 000-Flossen nbutend “(ws ve Gore DEoHEA) Briel 12 June gir -
ee <a yikes Bk bo Epic. ay ae: iF
| “DEONER, “Gore” : ae : hequitted : fi AS gh Cae eae : S ee ee

enteh cpa)? tried 43 Sane te

a Case Nos ‘oo-Floseenbure {US vs

ipoca ae cone onzel re ‘Death 5 Doath 42 Fe 0 ‘Feb 48 : ROG

fed 2 oct a

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oe Caso Wor 000-Fiassexburedt (os vs a Helm muro tried : 31 Lost a ee

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saItasoz, ‘Helmt 18. yours 15 years aes 22 ‘Mar 48 oes

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Case Mos ‘oo0-Flosecrbure-7 ira’ vs idol

fe ‘SCE ULMEISTER, Pudolf “péatur pe Pisapproved “43. “OF 48 : se Vi 2 ae
: : Gate ow 000 Fiossenbure-s (us vs _Sosef caer artet | 13 ost a ere .

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BRUNER, ‘Josot roe? Death : Death.

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han % Case Nos ‘000-FlossesturA-10 (ws 3 ve. ax _ar thor Yeu

“areasiatD, Max 7 Death or Life” roa 38 Mar 40 SL ee

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us ys sae coL aN) Tried | 29 ‘oot 40:

dase Nos “000-Fo seer

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- COLDH.A, Botoh * Death oe Death ot eke 28. Mar 48 : oye
t 2 oompusT) Preied 13 Tor a7 :

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HE ee. Case Nos 000.Flo ssenbur erst (us vs Fur

cor, furt 7 ~Aoquitted . hess Bi GOs St pois, Fee ee = oe i 5
x > a 4 f a ¥ ts eS: re “ ; 7 =
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aes S Case To, | 000 Plo sserbure-16 ‘(ws vs ‘Julius

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“Case No

2000-60-21 (uss vs Karl ADAMT et a) tried Bu Oct 46 at:

aDaMI, ‘Karl. oe
BalTES, Adolf

Gase ire Q00-50-222 (us vs Joann BaR

&. Panthe ,

6 months ©.

BaYR, Franz if § months
‘BOEWSCE, ‘Josof e years -
DEPNER, Andreas 6 months ©

KaRPE, Goorg . 30 months

: SCEERMAUL, Anton 6 months |
SCHOLZ, Alfrod 22 et Bs

BaRZEN, Sant
BaUER, Georg.

BIELZ, Johann
HERBERT, Josef.
LaUTER, Franz ~

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18 months

- 18 months a

18 months

18 months.

18 months

RECHNER, Paul Hermann: acquitted |

SERMISCE, Serbort

18 months

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Case No» 000--50-2-3 “(us vs Ernst ARTBUROER et

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18 months Hc 20, May, 22s
18 months  -# May 47°.
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3 years .2-.. 21. 4Apr 47 —
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& Jon 8: 21 Apr. ie

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530 May aye oe
20 May 47 —-

al). tried 21 Oct a6

aRZBE ERGER, Ernst
BINDER, Martin
DaNDL, Jakob A
GaRLaTTI, Franz

. GIERLING, Johann

JaHN, Otto
KELLER, Franz -
OBMANN ; Wilhelm

Case Nos 000..50—-2~4 (US 5 vs Times BRUECKER Ee

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3 years
3 years
44 years

_ 3 years
4 years

5 years

— 3 years |
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3 years .
o. years

4% years
3 years.

4 years

5 years.
3 years

‘& :

23 apr Aq

23 apr 4?
23 apr 47
23 sor 47

23 Apr 47+

“23 ar 47- Se

23 Apr 47.”

at) Tried 24 Oct 46”

BRUECKER, cHeaes
BURGHARD, Erwin ~

‘ DIETIMaY=R, Michael

HELLER, Josef
EOLLT. ICHER, Josef
JELSEL, J sosct
Stofan

MO RIOCK LGA Ernst. -

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18 months

15 months —

2 years
2 years
2 years .
18 months
18 months

18 nontha

18 months

Disapproved -
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SCHOEPP, Johann 10 years 5 years |. 2% Jan 4 Sera
SCHOETTL, Vingonz Death ~ Death ese 5 apr 46 28 “May 46
SCEULZ, Otto, — _ Death - ' 20 years “6 “apr, 46. pe ee ee
SEUSS, Josef =~ , Death  Deat hit 6 apr 46 28 May 46
“SUTTROP, Rudolf Death Death oa 1.5 apr 46 Vig 28. May, 26
TEMPEL, Wilhelm Death . Dest histee's- 5 5 apr 46 29 May, 46
TRENKLE, Franz Death Death *= 5 apr 46 28: May 46_-
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: Case Nos one Ws" vs fostse 100) tried 19 May 47 3 ee
BOT Gvceaness ‘dite. “Life oe 6 Fob. Oe a ke
: Berman Moll #8 A eee anr ess ae a e, Bile Came, Steer
Case os eaten tee fear v3 ‘Arnold couse ie 22 sor 47 #6
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2 Gace Nos ooo-Yestnanset-S (us vs Kart oT TO) ried 13 Nar ‘a7 ae \ =
orm, “kart! (Death : Death 8 Bet, A714 Nov 47°
: ‘Case toe “oogevanthansen-$ (ss arid Bduard cunt tried 4 Apr AD
: “CURTEN, mera sak Life” < : Disapproved , 8 ee “AB: pri rae :

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cavrmD, Watholn ts 20 years ‘10 years, 6 May 48 } *
: a 000-3 thonsea=12 (US vs re Kor} Kant Tried i spr 47,
ENA, Karl 28 = Life = “Seoused extradited, to the Poles i ‘Sontonee not —

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_SQESLLNER, brits : 20 years: vet 20 years 30. Jan 48 :
Caag Soq_ooo-Ynthauese (us ve Rudolf Lam) tried 28 ay 47 :
Lal, Rudolf ‘ : <2, Life Life: RA hae 48, aes, hee <a

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: BECKER, Otto — by OL mcnthe! 21 oaths te OO May “7
PRAN ZEN, Glaus -°.* ,.: S'years “{* 3 yeare *2%:; 20 May 47
HOEHNE, "Rudolf Mex 5 years - 4 years - = Q1 May 47
LANG, Mois ath op Oe years 2 years. °+ - . 20 May 47
LaNZI., Michael {°° 3 years. ~~ .3 years~ “© ~~ 20 May 47

“/PFLAM, Nickolaus' 1% years 13 years. - = (20 May 47 es 3 sag

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DORNHSKTER, Willi .< 30 months “- 25 ey 5 3°88 May 47
’ EUBs, Paul. 2 pie aie 2 years >. a. 2 years 3.8 23. May: 42 a 8. ead
HEINTZ, Johann 4-2 years” 2 years ~~ 23 May 47 ees eee
LANG, Andreas” =~. - 2 years” 2years - , 23 May 47, 4
STaRGARDP, Max . ° 2 years wae. yeare [773.23 May 47
UNGER hee fe wi 18 months 18 Ronths ;
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Case. Nos ‘000-80-2-7 (us vs | Bat olf DIEPE et a1) Brie’ 29 Oct 46

_DIPPE, Rudolf _ ey 5 years. pee 8 years BAky 216 June 47.
DRECHSEL, Angust acquitted _ eo a ek rae
GOETZ, Georg ” BS years +> 5 years = fe . 16 Sune Av mes
GROSSMAN, Roland - a < acquitted nag Ree Fes ee ¢ ty
HOLIER, irnst Pe Aiea years tive 2 yeare 5 / | 16 Sane 47. : ee

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BEYER, Hans Fritz 18 months — 18 Crane ee 26 ae 47

BRUEN, Richard... 18 months {18 months: —S_, 26 -May ae Ee aie
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“GRISSE, albert’ 18 months 18 months 26 May 47 eG

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Caso Nos 000-50-2-10 (US vs “Wilhelm BUEELZR et al) Tried 30 Oct 46
BUEHLER, Wilhelm 18 months 18 onthe “16 June 47 .
GEREARDT, Robort 18 months ~-18 months 16 June 47
‘GREINER, Jos&f _18 months 18 months — 16 June 47
HaUSWIRTH, Otto 18 months —18 months - -16 June 47
~ KIRSCHBAUM, Wendel 18 months 18 months “16 June 47
KORFY, alfred Rudolf 18 months Di seporoved 16 June 47 ‘
UNTERP sINENS ER, Hugo - 18 months Dis approved 16 June 47°
Sao Hos -000- 50-2- 11 (US _vs Josef borBrose et 21) Tried 31 Oct 46
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COMEKOTO Josof 62 yeare on 2 2 years — 10 Wane “An =
HiLTER, ~ 22 years 25 years =-10' June 47 =
JaUCcH, "Michaol Acquitted WR atta Ben
Kat Zia, 2 years : years 10 June 47
KOBED, fosar 3 years - 3 years 10 June 47
TEOM.SETH, Joscf " acquitted a ' if vt
Bete ha} Franz Erich 2 YoEs. 2 years 20. cone ie?
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= Gase How 006+-50-:2-12 (us ' vs Wicarece MUELLER et a1) Tried 6 Nov 46
MUELLER, ares” 20 months eer OO pane ‘10 “June 47 o
MUELLER, Otto Karl; 2 years 2 years ~.10.June 47
PulZ5aR, Reinhold ~2 years: *2 years_ ..2 10 June 47 —
-PITERMANN, 2 years 2 years. : AE 10. June 1
_ ROMER, Wilhelm ACGuLtbed <2 8 Shee fe epee E E
 ROTTIMATER, ‘Ludwig 22 years 14 years * + 10 June 47
SCHROSFL, Hormann 13 years ~ 13 years i £210 June 4?
SCHUSTEITER, Franz 1s years - eS voor 10 June 4?

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Caso No. 000-50-2-10 (US vs Wilhelm BUEHLER et al) Tried 30 Oct 46

16 June 47 7 ~

BUEHLER, Wilhelm 18 monthe 18 months

GERHaRDT, Robert 18 months ~-:.18 months 16 June 47

GREINER, Jos&f 18 months 18 months - 16 June 47
_HaUswIRTE, Otto : 18 months ~-18 months - 16 June 47
~ KIRSCHB.UM, Wendel  .18 months 18 months 16 June 47
-KORFF, alfred Rudolf 18 months Di eaporoved 16 June 47
; UNTEHP aINPYER, Hugo “18 nonths seperoyved "16 June 47,

Sase. oe “000-502 i (uss vs Tosef GoxB¥om0 et a1) Tried 31 Oct 46
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GOMBKOTO, Josef. : oo ycare’ : 22. years” 10 aie. 49
HiLTER, Anton ' 24 years a5 years 10 June 47
JaUCH, Michael Acqui tied
- KaTZIsN, Georg 2 yours. ee years 10 June 47
KOBED, Josef 3 years , 3 years 10 June 47
TEOMASETH, Joscef ~ “acquitted
ZGK, Franz ‘Erich B-yedts eT years 10 supe 27
; eGaso Hoy 000-50.3.12 (us | vs andreas MUSLEER et al) Tried 6 Nov 46
MUELLER, “ndroeas Sas: 20 months ise 29 nonths 10 hina A?
* “MTELLER, Otto Karl. “2 years “2 years — ~ 10 June 47.
PAtZsr, Reinhold =2 years. 22 years_ _~ 10 June 47
POTERMaNN, George 2 years” 2 years ALAR 47
ROHMSR, Wilhelm ~Acguitted a. Sea a Ss oo a aon
ROTTMaTER ‘Ludwig ae yeurs ~ As years 10 June 47
SCEROSFL, Hermann git years © 1s years e510 June 47
| SCHUSTSITER, ‘Franz 14 years y yeare 10 June 47

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NaUBERSIP, “Gustav... (.2 years.
~ OBE ERYEIER, Wilhelm  ° 2 years
’ PINZEL, Kart. ‘ 21 months
5.FTTLE, Jacob /2 years ~
SCFNUR, Friodrich acquitted
; SCETAPZ, Stefan .3 years ~
“SELZSR, Walter. = go°2 yours

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FICRIaN, Georg 18 months
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HUETINER, Robert 2 years

Spas ‘Johann’ 18 months
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Caso Yo. 000.60-2-15 (US vs Johann RELLER ‘et a) Bried 14 Nov 4g

HELLER, Jchann albin

HERTHA, Willy ;
HUEN, iathine
ISERLIS, Boris
KaRLSTETTR, Goorg
KUENZL, Senor

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JOCHIMSEN, Heinrich 2 years. 2 years. 17 July 47 | : :
PalM, Hoinrich eet, 2 years — 2 years - 17 July 47. © ° iho, ’
PRESS, Oskar . 18 months |. 18 months ~ 17 July 47. .
REINER, Josof -18 months 18 months . 17 July 47. :
RICHTER, Heinrich 18 months 18 months - 17 July 47.
SCHMELZ, Karl 2 years 2 Toure 17 July ue
Sase g_ Noe 000.-50-:2-20 (uss vs Johann 3 AUMOARINER et at) Tried 20 ov 48 te ee
BAUNGARTHNR, “Johann’ metic | BaF Sis i SR 9h Re nS Se sees 6 as ;
aUB.a0H, Michael 2 years: 2 years’ .. 12 June 47 © ee ee ae
FPULFER, Adam 2h years 2k years,.=..~. °.12 June 47 5 ere
Sou. Franz ob yeare -° 2} years gf, 12 June 47. a ya
FROER., Kurt Max 2years .. 2 years.’.-~+ 12 June 47 - ee
RavDaN, Karl 2 years °” 2 yeurs +33’ 12 June 47 - : aie
TONWASTR, Frang . 2 years 2years . 12. June, 47 } e af on
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rs ioe Noe 900. 50e2-21 {U8 vs Ernst Qotsbias § SISENE ARDT et al) Priod 21 ‘Noy 46. ae
BISENEARD?, arial : oe 2" years, Ye. 2 years. a: 42 guly GON Pe eS S|
Gotthilt: Tagore a : ia dee areata 4

HOS BLL, Josof » : acquitted Le ae was cae ie ee :
YaBSER, Friedrich A. 2 YOat Sin 1 2 Years ei es 2 July 47. DE Pe ee Ras
KUMKaR, ‘Wilhelm ve iS years .t3.2 years 224". "2 July.47 Spee ceed per Se 4
SP 126] a “Hans. ._- 2 years>: Qyeare ©. 2 duly AD ie ee eet eed
THESS, Philipp — Ra DO ¥ Car Sass, Q2years .., eduly AD in Pees ci Ht
VaLeRImN, Josof 21 months 3 21 months poe 2 July 46, ~ in m

Case ‘Now 090502222 (us vs Ernst ANGERER et. 1) Tried 3 Uee 46 f :

* QiGHAER, Ernst 25 years . 25 years... 28,0ct a7 Pas va ae
FROENPEEL, Boney Death «+: Death *7- = 28 Oct 47. 14 Nov 47 _.. oe
HIPP, Mois “Death os ay. Death 1% 28 Oct 47-14 Nov 47

“Caso Hoy Oo0ac0.0-28 (us. vs “alex PIORKO WSKI et at) Tried 17 Jan 47
DETERS, ‘Hoing, a oa 615" years” es 5 years “is eat 5 Tor 49 ie : Hes
P 1ORKO: dSKIS Alex - Death pode Death eae 5 Jan 48 Be “ seg
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N 3 Case Noe (00-60-2-24 (os. vs “alois yiPeLvOHS) Tried 5 Dec ‘46 3
; WPLINGER, “atots a ‘Life ote ites 3 Oct 47
Bea aber Tog 000-5925 us vs anton “WEBER ‘ot al) Tried 11 Dec 46
sn eee mies ‘
= WEBER, “anton eee ‘18 years ue a years. 6 Oct. 47 oh ae ‘
WOLF, Josef» ee : 20. Jost S . 20 years” ‘ 8 Oct ay ;
“Caso tos 000.350.2228 (us vs “Bret August SEEDS et 3) “Tried 5 Deo 48

BEERENS. “Ernst august = years é ioe 2 years rene: 2 suly AT ee ha
BLECHSCHMID?, Albert, 2 yeargs > = 2.year sas 2 July ALE eae Sth tee ree
BOSCH, Josef -Byears, 2 years” 2 July.47.27"

GaLL, Martin «=. « (2 years. ‘2 years | 2 July. 47° 2%,
@RaSSIE, stefan ‘i -Syears 3 years 2July 47- .
HACK, Johann’ mee) 2 years: - 2 years 2 July 47 ©.
HINZE, Rudolf. — eae 2k years © 25 years - 2 July 47
EUHN, "Joseph eo 2 years © 2 years.24.%. 2 July 47
JELINEK, Jacob — _ gk years 2b years Pay DB OAy, ae

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‘Caso Nos 000-50-2-27 (Us vs Brwin EENNEOKE et al) Tried 9 Dec 46

’ HENNECKS, Hrvin Pp - goguitted poe |
KIEFER, Adolf. -. acquitted gore Mhemine oak net < oy Lp ae oe fe

" KLINKENE?, prea ~  “Aequitted - bats ote: Sal Stes ae |
LaEMMLE, Friedrich 20 months 20 months 16 July 47 i
LaPOS, Josef “+ “@ye:rs - 2 years 16 July 47 .

LEIGHT, Otto — ae ' 2 years 2 years - 16 July 47
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, Case No. 000--50-2-51 (US vs Ferdinand GREINER et al) Tried LS Jan a7

GREINER, Fordinands
| KELLERMANN, Adolf
ES: Daniel

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30 months

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cca Tee 0006-60-62 (as vs rt Bernbard ‘SOFLORTER et al) ried pea Jan 47

 SCHIORTER, anton ie SS 20 months “- 20 nonths 26 Dee’ a7
~  §ITEDER, Hans . Aeguitted ‘ /
STRAUSS, Kurtin 20 months 2 months 26 Dec AT 9
WINTER, ‘Berman fest es ES ox: he : 3
s ‘Case Nog 000-50..2--53 {us vs Botttric 4 adam WINTER) Tried 20 Jan 47—
“WINTER, Gottfriod | eS: 20 years = 20 years. 24 Sent Aq os
ase Non 00-50-2.55 (us vs Stefan KOCH et a) Tried 21 Jen axe es

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- atg uitted 5. we

KOCH, “Stefah | oe Te

_ KUREN=R, Karl caigist “Acguitted =
_ KURZ, Johann - acquitted ~——.

LOBERMaYER, Fraoee

MaRXS, “Til Ne craitted

< Mast, Erast | ue

fase Hos ‘000-50-2-57 (us | vs

tT

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Fritz HESKE at a1) Tried 10 Feb 4

“HUSKE, Frits ee Me aitted
PELLER?, wonenn ae RATE

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we ~Sas0 os 000-50-2-58 (5 y ys

nes i

8 years 3 “Feb 48

_aDOLF, Soham ie a “acquil tt ed,

Case Tog 000-50-2-59 (08 3 ¥s

Johann aD0LF) Tied 25 Feb 47

Meg hs

Otte. 5 RRLOSS) Triaa 9 sor AD

EERRLOSS, Otto Aequitted

Fi oe ; Ri ee

“Case Noe ‘00b.-£0.2.60 (os. vs ress Peter Aiton ERNST ze al) Tried 11 Mar 47

ERNST, Joseph Poter 10 years
“anton a ies he
. Cadets ent sae 20 years

ee “ Gasc Mo, 000-50 2-61 u

a6 yuere 11 Oct. 47
10 years 11 Oct 47

vs Hermann Josef CaLENBERG “et a1) Tried ? Slay ATS

satay 2 CaLENBERG, areand 3 youre oS years 2 29 Dec 47°
“ ‘HOSCEXS, Richard —. So years? 3 years \ 29 Dec 47
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- Gase ios oon 80-288 (us vs “osksr 00s) ariet 5 vay 4 1 gee Ea ek?
EYNS, Jon Set oe 4 waare a 2 crs 4 Sao ss “19 ‘scot a7 ba zs oe
ENOCHS, phere eee vers ayears’ 39 Sept AT ess
“Gase Nos 000.80-22847 “(us vs Michael] GREIL et 21) Bried. 9 May * a .
“GEST Michael” Speech ‘years See ‘years Dee “a0 Oct a7 .
HaIst, Chris ction “op eeD FOSTS wri 5 years . 30. OC%. Fhe
> FaNSCE ENT, Hermann © ~ @ years, years BO Oct ALS 3
HOLDESBaUM, Karl. 3 years - al years 90 Oct 47 =
"  gakUSCE, Bruno ee aD Se years. 2h years 30 Oct 47. L
- Gaso Hos oc 56-2-88 ws ve 5 Karl USDMTERONE, _xarl) Tried 16 May &
Be ne : an % eae epee vei ae HOY Be < f
UOMTRRORTE, Karl Death ‘ite . = : oo 18 Jen 46 a oe
3 Gasc Nos 000-60-206 (us vs Fronz gulf FOB. et ai) ried g July 4?
 PROESCHL, Franz Oh yeare 2 Be years, - 28 oct an
- Rudolf ‘ me ? ee # ae "ey ey $
FRaDILEX, : Britz ee, 3 years 3 years “28 oct pr, . Bas
2 Case Yo, Gob 562.87 (us vs Wikolans. pro et 21) rhe 26 May 4 “
| SDE, wikoiaue. . | 5 years en 6 rere 237 Feb A .
- KIRPFER, Karl Pts O- Y COLTS S yer. 8 23>. 27 Feb 48. ¢
‘LENGFSLDER, Max eer Years fe 6 years. oF - £27 Feb AG re feat
‘MUELLER, Josot . Sent 3 ye2rs <: g’years — oe oe Fed 48 Jee ?
aa ; kare occas. eS. boty x 8 yoore, wes pee : ae 7
. ‘ % oy ; f 4
Case Wo On 000. oon 6-288 “(us vs “star 3inE pees 27 Ma ay 42 =
EIFLER, Osta r Sige aequitted. Re ase Beh Be SAS
g Case Noe goo. 50a 2289 (US. vs vajhelo 5 SNELER ot 2) ried 30 july 4
“FERC, “ Gnristion nae: ‘years Sa E years meth Sa = Jan 48 ete z oe aes: 2 5
NSTZEER, Wilhelm mae ae LO heat “10 Jost Se 40 Jan 48 _ a 5 Ee See eee rr a
Case Yo, 00 60-280. (US Ys Wileslaus TIS at. al) tried 18 June AT
3 vas Nikolas’, Death... Seat ete 2 Gat Ad le Nov 47.543
-ERECH |S Stofan Co Death a : Death eA : fe Oct AT j gee Ea ae
Caso Mos “000.60-2.91 (us us. Leonhard vera) sried 29 May A
rad yEYRR, Leonhard SeaLife. io Life = 8 Spr 28 -
‘. ae “Gass Nos 000-502-982 (OS ‘vs Mi wikoleus yore) aeied n Sune gd y: Srey, ,
MUTE . y Nikolaus | ee : 3 years: Be 13 years fons : ee ; Oe hy ,
Gase Fon ‘pons (US_y vs  Iohamies SCH. “ried 29 June 47,
soalRER, Johannes eee years. a : a3 years. eS a 4 Fe eb. 48 i
on ae A
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wit 7 § 3
Nee ae ry A DE ccolost

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GOTSCH, Jose? ay By years. a, 3 years p ae

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Poee: No. 000--80-2--62 (us vs Vi ut PIECHER et tal) tried 6 Mor AT ees

FISCHE R, “WALA. i Death? Ue Death oe 6 Sept 49 2 ag | Set AT {eee
SENTWER’ Xurt po Lory 2 ye ars ee seers. : Le pepe Sept Ex Feces LPN rete '
JORRWITZ, Josef: °h Late! | ere he Sept 47 ey a
LIPPMNN, ether: © “acouttted 5 ee ge PEASE eer Fe Leth
SCEREYRR, Martin — ge moath | “Death ey “6 Sept ane 32 Soo" KES Gee ;

‘Case Hoe (000-60-2-68 (05 y v8  Iudwie DaUTSOH et ta) Trea 3 Feb 47

DEUTSCH, Ledwis’ te 5 years pis, 5 years. . eg =: Jan 48 a8 ee ei os ?
: Ps ** - z 3

STROESSENEEUT=ER, e 10 ysstsy i 10 years es cei eee 48
Herbert . Shy ay . re BERT,

Caso Nos 000-502 64 us vs | Matthias e PEELVYER) Tried. 5 eb at.

x te >» a ! r >
goa tlhe SRS
si (a Sacha etenbeabitee Mebane ag bo 8

: Caso Noe 000.-50-2-65 (3 » ¥8 5 Seore Deena) tried a Feb a7

DEFFNER, Georg a ot 3 years” oe os years oe 23 Jan 48. ; i ie : we

‘80 Hos 000..60.2-66 (05 » vs 5 Osore. BEER et + at) Tried 26 Fab 47 : We Sea

*

“SuER, aeons 5 a ee 10 years. i) years. ee 3 ; 26 ‘Dec 47 aS ee a:

FUSTERMANN, Magnus. Life. °:° 220 “years= US 6 ath ; by ate
SCHASSBERGER, ike ee Life a er oges, 30 years. ees a Rien, & ose

ARES, A a : z 3 of +s oe : 3 Stee ? ea * 3 a ‘ . ee ¥ 3 ee iS a -- Be Ag < Le eas std ;

ie ‘WO. (000-50-2.67 (03. va dear ‘STILLER et at) Tried 24 ae AQ.

408GG; Oswald 7. = 2 ycars E ; 2 BAe oy ar. 48 5 Seis ey es
REUTER, Ernst i... 3 yearejx = 3 yesrsh 4: OQ, OT, 2B ye MI Ae Cera a 9 Bake eee
STILLER, Edgar =? yeara: ~~ 5 years =... 20 4pr 4B Ay Re ae SO ae,

. Witt, Heinrich an i years. . 5 yearsi> = 22 20 ~pr 48 Boar See ‘ote aero

Ciao Ne: 000-6028 (us. ig aie RINTERVAYER et al) Tried 5 Mar 47

he , an“ 48 ie Ae Ss Oe

HINTERMAYER Josef. 14 months 14 months Pin Nang ® ee bg gor ek Boe FAS Piece
HORSLEN, Otto o ah years, 3k years We

Beinrich : Se, #iph :

LEN2ZKOWSEI, Bruno . ob yeers 2} years 7

RaUSCH,; Karl: 2h years ~ 24 years at f

ROETEE, Eepmann 7 ae 3 2 EEA. Rea 2 years. Fah se Rone ?,

. + %. 3 . > wos

Ca.80 No. 000-.50-.2-69 (us v8 conker vBLOT0EFaR) ‘tried 3 Mar a7

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oe RE eee Fane, ¢

UELTZHONFTER, = . ite sie Life Bre 17 Jaly at ee
ivi ine, ne ae =~ ; ey

: Caso No, 000-60-2-70_ (os vs Mathias Josef Peter cREBER et a) Tried 3 Mar £ Z. i

KREBER, Mathias . ll years aba ae years A : 26 Jan. 28

Josef = 4s: ‘
XULLIK, Johann)... 5 years ; 6 years regs 26 Jan 48

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Caso Not: 000-8052-78 (us. vs Hans WUELFERT ot al) ‘Trea 17 Mar 47, oe. |
| HUBER, Bernhard : 2 years =o 2 satan Pal Got 42
& E }UELLER , august 10 years *% 10 years ,3: 21 er ace > a
ieee wo: Friedrich <2y I eee tae SRS REA fey sn tes ap :
Bene “SCHIBSSEL, Georg "4: acquittedsses cae site eae om ee
Pee WUELFEAT, Hans 5 years, a years’, 22 Oct 47°
. i a Set ae ne ; jae, Pees
Caso Noi 000-2278 (US vs Josef DEINER) Tried 6 Mar 49: nee
een DEINER, “Josof Death Death 28 oct. 47 i Nov, 47
Buea et Sy, Odes wo, 000--50-2.74 (US vs Josef HABUSSLER et al) Tried 10 Mar 47
“HARUSSLE mR, Josef 3 years 3 he 26 Jan 43°
PICHNSR, Rudolf ee Yearsr.- 2 years” 26 Jan 48
WICH,” Otto. Karl 7 years 8 years 26, Jan 48 : ;
Case Ne: 00050-2275 (Us. vs august Richard ENS at =) ‘ried a8 apr 4a
Be, BECKER, Vilhelm Karl Aogquitted | bag at ce ‘ ae :
EIGN, anton 5 years ri 5 years. “28 Oct 47 ny veges
~ RUENKS,’ august . . Death - Death 28 Oct. AP %: 4 Nov 47 ar
Ai chard . : A aes ; ae
rg ; kite *
Case Nos 000-50=2-76 (os v8 Franz BRUNOLD et aay riod 14 Mar 47
BRUNOLD, Prong? ee 5 years 25 years ; wots Jan 48 : ae
BUENGER, Rudolf - 8 years 8 years 7 Jan 48 :
neta “albort- a yooRs, 10 CATR 7. Jan 48>
tase Hoe 1000-60-2-77 (Us vs kart Konrad stinvizs) tried 17 Mar 47
STISNWEIS, “Xurt "a yenre - | Meapproved 5 Feb 43
Konrad At fea att a ont
Bags No; 00-50-2478 (0S 3 vs. 1 Josef ¢ aaa trtoa 28 Mar’ 47.
YEUNAR, Josef, gies Death ~ Death. 28 ug 47 26 Sept 47_
Case Ko, 000-50-2-79 (US vs Eneelbert SOFLKW) Tried 13 May 47°
SOBLKEN, gecko) ess Life Life. ‘ 19 aug a7
= ‘Caso Mow 000-50-2-80 (us. vs Heinrich RIX) ried 9 May. a2 ae te 2 Fee
4 TRIXL, “Holnrich | 30 years years: 19. og. 47 ;
‘Case No, 000-50-2..81 (US vs Wilhelm QENVACHT) Tried 6 May “7 Ree oe
ORNNACHT, Wilhelm acquitted § 4 wea 4
Case 1 No, 900. 50=2-82 (us vs ~Ponates HOBSSL) Bred | a sor 47 ; 2 ey
Ee. Dena was . ; acquitted BO lien
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. Qase ‘os 000--50--5-20 (us ¥ vs. Martin BIERSCE ot al) Tried 25 Sept at Se oe

BUERGER, Ernst . Life |
FULSCES, Heinrich... Death
KORSITZK1, Ronde ** _ Death
SEIDL,. Macedo =~ Death. =
“TEITEARG “Albert, Death 77

oes Ne 060-50-5-21 US vs_ Josef. KaPTWER et al) Tricd 9 * cent 47

Lite

6 years.’

Death |

een. Deathos

Death.

“ba May 48.

24 May 48

24 May 438
~ 24 May 48.
24 May. sb

~

BRANDT, O1f 7 3 years
GERPIC, Emil - - acquitted |
YaTTNER, Josef. - acquitted

KLEINGUNTHER, Otto Death -

LOTHAaLLER, Johann -. acquitted

MaLLESCHITS, Stofan 10 ye cars
WOHLRAB, ‘Christian ” “<- Death:

ieee ncumeaet “6 Se ERS
7 aes

Saso aa. 000--50--5-22 (Us vs Petr BA«ERENS et al) Brio 24 Oct 47

Byeeres

10 sean
Doat h-

15 Nay 48°.

6 ee 6 Ne

15 May 48

(16 May 49 Tee

aNTIS, Soeor! 5 yoars. 5 yoars.
BaERENS, Potor, po ee LIS eee Life-

BLOH, Jqnsof 30 years. .- 3 years

DIENER, adam 8 acquitted

GIESSRIGL, “Karl Lifes 3° Life

GRETSCH, Johann eS Aequitted..

SEEL, Filipp = ' 25 years > 3 woned
3 KIRSCHBICHLER, Ernst 10 yoars 10 yoars

MUESH, Rudolf... 25 yoars 25 years

PUSITS, Michaol.- .. 20 years 20 years

REINSDORFF, Morncr Le Lifo

Caso Hos 900-50-5-23 (us vs Frang #ORLER ot 2) riod 21 aug 47

$y. ea

16 May 48
15 May 48
18 ee 48

ie, May 28

18 1209 Oe

15 May 48. >
15 May 43.
~ 15 May 48

16 May. 48

BUETCEN, Pains : 3 yoars.
FLAUCHER, Quirin. . Death
HELLER, Michache 2 Doath =
KOFLER, Franz - Doash —
LEN Nant “Stofan © —S- Acquitted
ETRaT, Gustay, Death. -
REUTER, Arno. Albert 2 years
THIELMaNN, Bnil ‘Life

Scare.

Death
2$h
Death

Death
2 years
Life

24 May 48 |

24 May 46

24 May 48
4 May 48.

24 May 48.

24 May 46
24 May 48

sauz 47

Case. Moa! 000-50--8-24 (us vs Josef BakTL et al) riod 5

BARTL, Josef 3 years
- BECK, ‘Philipp. 5 years
BL OME, “Walter <.-’ 19 years
BOBROWSKI,. Max 3 years
DOERFLER, Oscar . 3 years
LORENZ, Ernst Lifes
OHNMACHT, Eduard -/10 years
VOLGGER, Konrad 10 years
ZIRNER, Jchann* = 3 years

ZILEGER, Herman 15 years

3 years
5 years

10 years...

3 years

3 years

25 years
10 years
10 years
3 years
15 years

50

16 af A8
16 Apr 48

16 spr. 48

16 apr 48

16 «pr 48 .

16 apr 48
16 =pr 48
16 «pr 48

16 apr 48°

16 apr 48


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Caso Nos 000-5058 (US vs Wi]1i sUERSWALD et

AUERSUaLD $324
TREYSOLDT, Hans
FUSTEN, Korman
FEESS, Otto

_ KCLBE, Karl

KUEEN, Werner »

SCHILLER, win

Death
15 ye ars
Death
Life

5 years
Life

10 years

Death

15 years
Life

160 years
5 years

3 years

10 years

15 May 4
15 May 48
15 May 48
15 May 48
15 May 48
15 May 48
15 May 48

Caso Bo, 000.50-549 (US ve Josef LUKaN) Tried

FRINDT, Matthias _
‘LUKAS,

"Josef ES

Death -
20 years

Death
PERLE

ete  Sase Mod 000-50-5-10 (us vs Gonre Bate

28 aug 47

2 Mar 48
2 Mar 48

fefed 3 July 47

BoE, “Georg
HEINZ, Kasoar
‘LaTSEL, Josef
OBE ERMBIER, Alois
PPAFFENBERGER,
Christoph |
REICHERT, Ernst
ROEDER, Rudolf
STUMP F, Heinrich
TaESSER, ——

3 years
Acquitted
Life _
10 years

10 years

Life

é

acquitted

20 years

3 years

3 years

10 years

‘10 years

10 years

10 years

3 ye or &

et 21)

12 years

15 May 48

17 May 48
15 May 48
15 May 48

‘17 May 48 :

15 May 48
15 May 48

a

Pr Case ‘Wo. 000-.50-5—12 (US vs Andreas BaTTERMANN et al) Tried 1 July 47

2. PT FRMANN, Andreas

PIT2NER, ‘Albert
EaUSKNECHT, Gert
JaIT, Michacl —
“EIEINGRT , Otto --
MORR, Adolf

3 years
10 years
3 years
10 years

Rudolf Gustay..Death -

2 years

2 years —

3 years
5 years
3 yw ars
10 years
Death

2 years

‘e. years

2 Mar 48
2 Mar 48
2 Mar 48
2 Mar 48
2 Mar 48
2Mar 48 ,
2 Mar 48

Case No, 000.50.5-12 (US vs Hans GIOVANAZI et al) Tried 11 ave 47

GlOVaNAZZI, Hans
NUSZKOWSKI, Richard

.. PaNHaNS, Alois

‘SOEAEFER, Robert

~ SCHMITZ, The...

“Florian
2, Heinrich

SDUE??,
“WAGNER

‘WEFSRS, Robert |

‘WINDER. Loopold

2%

eas
bind

Death
10 years
20 years
5 years
Deuth
20 years
Life

“ Acquitted

10 years

yey

Ba Ree ee aad

Life”
3 years

“ 10 years

5 years
Death
5 years

- Life

3 years

24 May 48
24 May 48

24 May 48
-24 May 48

24 May 48
24. May 48
24 May 48

24 May 48


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Case Woe 000-505-138 (US vs Johann YaIDER et al) Tried 12 Sent ee
HalDER. Johanna tose Tiree nee Life / 15 May 48
dIRSCH, Rudolph’ - (10 years eat AA) years 15 May 48
ISKRa, ‘Mathous acquitted sat . ee
KISCH, Joscf.. —* = ‘De: ata = ges Death? : 15 May 48
FULTGL, “Herbert “Lifes Life.“ -\3 c= -15 May 48
STEINMETZ, Martin» 7 years - S years ~ - 15 May 48
STOECKEL, ‘Daniel 7 years 2 years H,. 15, May, 48.35
USC aREVIESCH, Stefan 7 years 2 years - 15 May 48
a 2380 Hoe 000--50-5-14 (us vs Eduard DLOUHY et al) Tried 23 July 47
HOLE "Bduard: 2B years 8 years — ae ms 13 dor 48
_MIROFF, Fritz ~-.<° Death , Death | ; 13 for 48°
RICEEN, Paula oy 2 Lifeson: Lifaieo: eae 13 apr 48)
STUMPUL, Karl; *:- 2b years 2% years 13 fpr 48 .
yo tye ilheln RES athe 3 years arg ee 1S pr 48°34
Case “BS.” 000-50-5- 15 Ws vs Paul FENITER et a1) Tried 22 July 47
FENNER, Paul * "© Lite = a Life 0 15 Mar a
Ora, Revo Se 10 years. ah years etd 1D Mar 48
“Cass lid $000-50-5-17 (us s vs Waldemar BARN: BR et al) Tried 9 Sent 47
BanNER, Ualdenar’ : ‘1s years. 2 15 verre Z : 7 May 48.
FIRSCHING, Franz - 3 years. —s_- 3: years’ " 2 May 48.
GINTERS, Inde © 2 years eM years-<-25, - 7 Muy 48
HOCEWITZ, Wilhelm 5S years --* $3 years “7 May 48
SUB, Tail - spo eet Acquitted : eg: :
RUBER, Yiktor..t:8-s 8 years =. 8 years. . _ 7 May 48
SOENS; Jaqob2a2)-4* 5 years* = 6 years 7 May 48.
UEBENER, Visits eon yore, ~ 3 years 7 May 48
‘Case Noe 000-50-5-16 us vs Theo Otto BEEN ZaRDT et al) Tried 25 aug 47
BERNHARD, “Too aN, 10 years” ° 10 years cr 24 apr 49
Ot toms Fg ; Be ee eee
DOMIS, Johann. * ~ e years 3 years 24 spr 48
JUNG, Hans Clomens’* *S years =s ‘55 years. 24 aor 43
KUZEN, Karl’... 3 years 3 years 24 -pr 48
LUETSCHER, Heinrich 3 years 3 years. - PA apr 48
PI JRUCEER, Reinhard... Death .. Death © 24 spr 43
. parte Xaver. *: v Life ns Life | 24 Spr 48
WaStSR, Fritz 5 years 5 yearg , 24 apr 48
WLOT ZX Ta, Ewald. a Death 22 -*>° Death 24 apr 48
4 Cer eaeeapnet sete, © pepe :
Caso No. 000-50.5.19. (US vs Sduard KLERN@R et al) Tried 26 Nov 47
KLERVER, Bduard 5 years 5 years 17 Mar 48
SCHULZ, Kaz ee : .5 years 5 years 17 Mar 45
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Caso Noi 000-50-5el (US vs

BERGERHOFF, Hans. Death “ 10 years 15 nee 48
DUDZINSKI, Richard . Death. 9 years. 15 May 48
FELSGH, Friodrich So -YAfe eyes. 20 years’ 2s 15. May 48°
FINK, Ottmar - 20 years) 10 years 15 May 45 —
: GEYER, Max acquitted © saa age ge, nee petri Me
LEIBAUER, O%to Death  . 20 years - 15. May, 46.-
NESSL, Erwin 10 years 3 years 15 May <8
RICHTER, alfred “Life Disapproved 15. May 48
SCEOWPPERLE, Karl. Death Death = ".* 15 May 48 me
SP IELHOFER, Josef: Life — 2 years» 15 May 48
STRENG, Karl Death Death - 15 May 48
ZINK, Otto 10 year's 4 years ~ 15 May 48 ~ 2
AG Noe 000-50-5-2 (US vs “Brnst Walter DURa) Tried 23 June 47
DURA, rirhet Walter. acquitted ys ne eae :
HOLLRISGL, alois Deth . - Derthiaen 2, 15,.Feb 48. 43
KRONER, ~ Johann oF. 20 years = 20 years:: : 13 Feb 48 ’
: KUENERT, Alfred. $ years: ; =. 3 years: = 13. Feb. 48 As
NITSCEKE, Fritz 20 years 20 years $2 7713 Feb 48.0. 273
SCEMUPZLER, Kurt. . Death = Death fo." 7 a? #213, Meb 485
SCHR«ADER, Otto _- = Sl months. 31 months 13 Feb 48 -.
STIER, Tedvig. Death sr2 2 = Death i Feb a z
Case Noe (000--50-2-3 (Us + vs Brick SCUSTRAUF et a) Tried oA June 297%
GRILL, ‘Widboim 2 Death “ Dea this © eer es “V7 Tune. 43 ee >
HARTUNG, Herbert P Death sacs Life #ch «230817 June 48 Se:
ERISIG, wlfons dugo .Life,.. -- .Life,: e iz: June 48
JUNGJOHMNN, Willi Death*= =. Life 47 June 48
SCZUBTTAUY, Erick Life... Life. 17 June 48
TaNDLER, os 7 Death pms Death sie 17 June. 48
Case Nos 000-505 (us. ys Kesar cost et ‘ai) fried 29 July 47 3
GOETZ, 'ieeoay Life Life 5 ies 48 r
GUENTHER, Fritz. Karl 25° years 25 years. 5 May 48°
KXOP ISCHER, Otto ’ Life Life - 5 May 48 ‘
LEHRBaCH™R, Gustav 20 years: 20 years: “" § May 48_ :
gegbtrrs | Brat ae Life Life - | " 5 May 48
ase Mo 000-60.5.5-(U5 vs Will ay BEER et a Tried 28 July 4 a a
so “MIDT, Brung Bere Recrs | . 3 Je x
fERWER, Willy - 10 yars=~ °10 years. Peete “2d Mar 48
Case No, 000-50-5-6 (US vs Hans Joachim GRIGER et al) Tricd 5 ang 472 ~ e:
BINZENB.CH, Paul. _% years 3 years 1 May 48
DEISTLER, Paul 3 years :* "3 years: 1 May 48
EULER, Emil ~ 10 years 10 years “1. May. 48
BIGER,. Hans Joachim 2 years 20 years ~] May 48 .-
GRUTZI, Max . 10 years —s-:10- years Sk MAY, 38
FOBILKS, Lothar 15 years 15 years ‘2 May 48.
KRuMER, Max ~~ 20 years 20 years 1 May 48 -.
KRaUSS, Stefan’ acquitted Se
MEIER, Mathacus 20 yours. 2 years 1 May 48 ;
SCIIFFTER, Otto acquitted . See :
WIENER, albert ZS years: 2yrs9 mos 3% May 28
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past. The lanes on each side of the mall are bordered by other
prison buildings, two to three stories high. Behind them stand
the huge granite walls, which range in certain places up to a

height of 41 feet. The walls enclose a total area of twelve and

one-half acres and are also the result of prison labor, a monu-
ment perhaps to the confinement at “hard labor” of the past.

Colonel Orr walked the length of the mall and entered the
back door of the administration building. The building itself is
part of the front wall of the prison; a sally port running through
the center of the building is in fact the main entrance to the dis-
ciplinary barracks. Large iron gates at each end of the sally
port, which are operated independently and are never opened
simultaneously, separate the prison from the outside world.

Upstairs, the colonel first went to his office to get a pad of paper
and a pencil and then reported to the commandant.

“You were looking for me, sir?” Colonel Orr said as he
stepped into the commandant’s office. -

“Yes, Ray,” Colonel Eley said and motioned for Colonel
Orr to sit down.

The commandant opened a manila folder, took a thick stack
of papers from it, and handed them to Colonel Orr. The top
sheet was the directive from the office of the Secretary of War in
Washington.

“You don’t have to read them now. Generally, you already
know what they’re about—the Germans we’ ve got in the base-
ment of the castle.” :

Colonel Orr put the papers in his lap and looked across the
desk at Colonel Eley. .

“You’re going to have to build a’ special set of gallows,”
Colonel Eley continued. He paused to see if the statement had
carried any impact, but the impassive expression on Colonel
Orr’s face had not changed. “Word came through today from
Washington that we’re going to have to hang some of them.
The President signed the orders two days ago.”

Colonel Orr nodded but remained silent. He was indeed
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aware of the fifteen German prisoners of war who sat idly in

the dark corridors of the castle’s basement. Between the fife

teen, they accounted for four separate murders. All fifteen

had been tried by courts martial, convicted, and sentenced
to death. In two of the cases, the sentence had been con--
firmed by the President over a year earlier, but the execu-

tion of the sentences had been postponed several times by
high authorities in Washington for reasons Colonel Orr
was not privy to and could only conjecture about. One of
the cases involved five prisoners of war—Walter Beyer, Bert-
hold Seidel, Hans Demme, Willi Scholz,.and Hans Schomer
— all of whom were convicted of the “willful, deliberate, feloni-
ous, unlawful and premeditated murder of Johannes Kunze,
a fellow prisoner of war, at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma.” The
other case involved only two prisoners of war— Erich Gauss
and Rudolf Straub —who were convicted of the murder by stran-
gulation of German Prisoner of War Horst Guenther at
Branch Camp Aiken, South Carolina. The directive from
the Secretary of War’s office in Washington, which now rest-
ed in Colonel Orr’s lap, set forth the order to carry out the
sentences in these two cases—death by hanging.

The other two cases still floated in the limbolike halls of
Washington. One case, however, would be resolved in the
next few days when President Harry S Truman would com-
mute the death sentence of Edgar Menschner for beating to
death German Prisoner of War Han Geller in the POW camp
at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. Menschner would be removed
from his moribund cell in the castle’s basement and, in effect,
given back his life to begin serving a twenty-year sentence at
Fort Leavenworth. The remaining seven Germans on death
row were still waiting to sce if the President of the United
States would commute their sentence for the murder of POW
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nels to the office of the Provost Marshal General, the army
branch responsible for all prisoners of war. The Provost
Marshal General, Major General Archer L. Lerch, then for-
wardcd a transmittal sheet to the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1,
with specific reference to the Beyer and Gauss cases, point-
ing out that the negotiations for the exchange of the con-
demned Germans for allegedly condemned Americans had
failed by reason of the Allied military victory over Germany.
In the Provost Marshal General’s transmittal letter, it was
recommended that the restrictions imposed by the Assistant
Chief of Staff, G-1, against the execution of the individuals
in the Beyer and Gauss cases and against the presentation to
the President for confirmation of any unconfirmed death sen-
tences of German prisoners be rescinded and that instructions
be given to the Provost Marshal General to cause the death
sentences of the Beyer and Gauss defendants to be executed.

Apparently the “humanitarian considerations” which had
prompted the War Department earlier to postpone the -execu-
tions applied only to the American prisoners of war in ques-
tion. Now that they were safely recovered, there appeared to
be no reason to hold off the executions in the United States.
The days of bargaining were over, and it was certainly not
anyone’s fault that the exchange had not transpired before
Germany fell. On the other hand, it was the fate of the fifteen
unfortunate Germans that was to be determined because the
negotiations were slower than the Allied war effort.

The Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, returned the transmittal
letter, routing it through the office of the Chief of Staff; with
the direction that those prohibitions against the executions be
removed and that necessary action be taken to carry out
the confirmed death sentences on or after July 1, 1945, and
~ to cause the death sentences imposed upon certain other Ger-
man prisoners of war to be presented to the President for
review and confirmation and, if confirmed, also to be carried
out.

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else at Fort Leavenworth of the decision that had been reach-
ed in Washington. Even the commandant of the disciplinary
barracks, Colonel William S. Eley, did not learn of it —
early July, and then only when the orders from the War
Department unostentatiously appeared on his desk one ee
ing directing him to carry out the sentences of ‘the five de-
fendants in the Beyer case. The fifteen prisoners in death row
were not to know until one day before the execution date.

On July 3, while preparations for the building of the
gallows were already underway at Fort Leavenworth, the
unconfirmed death sentences of Edgar Menschner and Helmut
Fischer, Fritz Franke, Guenther Kuelsen, Heinrich Ludwig,
Bernhard Reyak, Otto Stengel, and Rolf Wizuy were sent to
the White House for final presidential review. President Tru-
man was personally to consider the cases after they wefe

formally reviewed and presented to him by members of his

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April, 18,, 1995

Dr. J. Robert Lilly

The College of Law

Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6103

Dear Dr. Lilly:

The roster of those interred in Plot E of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery

is enclosed. All were executed for such heinous crimes as rape and murder.

They have all paid for their crimes and should be allowed to rest in peace.

Although publicity cannot hurt them, it may well hurt surviving members of
their families. I do not know the dates of their executions.

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The survivors. Hartmann bungled his
attempt to finish off the airmen with
shots to their heads. Sergeant Brown /eft
and Sergeant Adams centre were subse-
quently captured and sent to a prisoner-
of-war camp where they secretly agreed
not to speak of the killings to spare the
anguish of their buddies’ families if they
discovered the brutal way they had been
killed. Staff Sergeant Brininstool right,
who had been split from the others in
Munster because of his wound, had no
idea what had befallen the others until
after the war. It was he who sent us
pictures of all the crew (except the last-
minute replacement, Tufenkjian) which
were specially taken in England in civilian
clothes to provide the Resistance with a
photograph to complement any forged
papers they might need in order to
escape to England if shot down.

After their capture Sergeant Brown,
together with Adams, was transferred to
Stalag Luft IV on September 12 where they
remained for the next six months. The
Germans did not realise that they were
survivors of what was to become known in
post-war years as the Riusselsheim Death
March, and they were treated like ordinary
prisoners, receiving medical attention for
their wounds. In February 1945 the prisoners
were marched back towards the Elbe river to
avoid capture by the advancing Russians and
they were finally liberated by a unit of the
British Army at the beginning of May 1945.
Brown and Adams returned to the United
States the following month.

When Russelsheim was captured by the
US Third Army in March 1945, French and
Polish forced labourers spoke of an incident
involving some Allied airmen the previous
August but, in the confused situation of the
period, apart from noting the brief details,
nothing further was done until Germany
surrendered. In May, Major Luke P. Rogers
was assigned to the Twelfth Army Group as
a war crimes investigator and he arrived in
Wiesbaden to begin a preliminary examina-
tion of the many reported incidents in Army
Group records. The Risselsheim file,
although it consisted only of the Third Army
report and a brief newspaper clipping from
the Daily Express, neither of which men-
tioned any names, caught his eye and he
singled it out for early attention. Accom-
panied by Lieutenant Ephraim London and

The historian. The Editor, retracing the
route of the notorious Death March,
pauses for thought on the #orner of
Taunusstrasse.

The investigation. When Russelsheim was captured, the US Third Army noted reports
that some Allied airmen were said to have been killed in the town and the alleged
incident became one of the first war crimes to be investigated when the war was over.
Here Captain William R. Vance, the Assistant Trial Judge Advocate of the US 12th
Army Group, examines a piece of concrete used against the airmen.


Sh ehd,

HY eM
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In June 1985, exactly forty years after the Commission’s
investigation, we made our own poignant tour of Russelsheim.
At the bottom of Taunusstrasse (seen on the left) we found

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that, although the pavement in Grabenstrasse had been

narrowed, the wall against which the Americans were beaten

was still standing.

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Reaching the railway, the final act was about to begin.
Crouching beside the wall which separated Grabenstrasse from
railway property, the Americans (the townspeople thought that
they were Canadians, shot down earlier that morning) were set

Agent Brenan: What happened next?
Brown: After a while the crowd seemed to
disperse and the next thing I knew several
persons were pulling a small hay wagon by
hand. I managed to see them pick up and
throw William Dumont’s body into the
wagon and then they pulled the wagon
over and picked up William Adams and
threw him into the wagon. I was the next
one to be picked up and thrown into the
wagon. Each of the other men were picked
up and thrown in on us as we were being
pulled down the street. I could not tell who
was pulling the wagon, but I know they
pulled it for 15 to 20 minutes before they
stopped. Things were much quieter but I
could hear two or three voices. I know the
co-pilot, John Sekul, was still alive be-
cause I was having difficulty breathing as
we moved along in the wagon and I
whispered to him to move over a little bit
and he did. The wagon stopped and I
could hear voices again and I attempted to
peep out, being careful not to move. I saw
some person, whom I can’t describe, with
a club in his hand, come over to the wagon
— apparently to finish us off. Sekul’s hand
was on my shoulder and I could feel him
wince as this person beat him on the head,
I felt his hand slide from my shoulder as he
died. Thomas Williams was also next to
me and I heard him make a sound as he
was finished off. I thought that all of the
crew had been killed by this time. I could
see that the flight officer, name unknown,
had his brains beaten out and the pilot,
Rogers, had his head beaten in on one side
by what must have been a 2X4. I waited
for what must have been 10 or 15 minutes,
until it seemed that all the people had left.
When it was completely quiet I started
stirring around to get out of the wagon. It
was then that I learned that William
Adams was also still alive. As we got out
of the wagon I could see that we were in a
graveyard surrounded by a stone wal:
approximately six feet high and that there
was what appeared to be a chapel in the

middle of this graveyard. As we left the
wagon we ran for this chapel. We stayed in
the chapel for a few minutes and I pulled
off my heated flying suit which I had been
wearing all the time. We left the chapel
and proceeded in a westerly direction. We
hid in the woods in the daytime and
travelled at night, after leaving this chapel.
We were captured four days later, on the
Ist of September 1944, by a civilian
policeman and he told us that we were
near the Rhine River, but I don’t believe it
was the Rhine.

Brenan: Do you remember anything else

about the graveyard?

Brown: No, but I am certain that it could be

identified in this town.

Brenan: Could you identify or describe any

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about with a vengeance. Friedrich Wust leaned over the wall
from the railway side and aimed hammer blows at their heads
while August Wolf and Karl Fugmann battered them with
bricks. Hartmann joined in with a club.

of the civilians vou saw beat you or any of
the other crew members?

Brown: No, it was impossible for me to tell

what they looked like. All I know is that
there were from 250 to 300 people shout-
ing and beating us.

Brenan: \s there anything else you can tell us

about the killing of these men?

Brown: Well, I knew that the pilot, Norman

J. Rogers, did not have his dog tags on
because I didn’t have mine on and we had
talked about it when we were first cap-
tured. I was worried about what might
happen to me and I mentioned it to Pilot
Rogers.

Brenan: Is there any other information you

can give us?

Brown: No, I believe that is all.

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The chapel in the Waldfriedhof cemetery on Hasslocher Strasse where Sidney Brown
and William Adams took shelter after they escaped from the cart.

in a remote corner of the town cemetery, Captain William Vance inspects the common grave pointed out by Tec 5 Sigi Strauss.

an interpreter, Major Roberts set out for
Risselsheim early in June.

‘Our first stop in Risselsheim was at the
Geman police station’, wrote Major Rogers
in 1947. ‘The police chief, whose name was
Wagner, told us that he had been appointed
by the American Military Government after
the occupation of Riisselsheim. He said that
he wasn’t living there at the time that the
flyers were murdered but he knew about the
case and had prepared a list of the perpe-
trators which he had gathered from the town
gossip. He handed me a list of twenty-one
names. As I examined it, I noticed the
German word “fort” in parenthesis after
several names. I asked the interpreter what
that meant and he said that it meant “fled”. I
then asked the police chief where the other
people were and he said they were there in
Risselsheim. This news was almost too good
to be true.

‘The police chief told us that the Burger-
meister knew much more about the case and
had been living in Riisselsheim when the
murders occurred. So we decided to pay him
a visit. We questioned him for several hours
and for the first time got the full story. And a
brutal and shocking story it was. The Burger-
meister claimed that he was not an eye-
witness to the murder but had heard all
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his ID tag. The sixth victim was Haigus Tufenkjian.


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Plot E, Row 44, Grave 17.

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Following their temporary interment at Bensheim, the six American airmen were
subsequently transferred to the US military cemetery at St Avold in eastern France
until the wishes of the next of kin had been established (in 1948). Three families
decided to have the remains left in French soil, to lie in the new permanent cemetery
which was to be constructed at St Avold by the American Battle Monuments
Commission. There in the breathtaking Lorraine Cemetery we paid our last respects
to Lieutenant Rogers (/eft) whose widow we knew had been tragically upset to learn
of her husband's death only through newspaper reports.

It was obvious when we arrived at the spot
where the B-24 had crashed near Hannover
that Mr Wilhelm Beckersjtirgen and his wife
had no idea of the traumatic events which
later befell the crew of the bomber which
crashed on their farm. They told us that we
were the first foreign visitors who had ever
inquired about the crash, which leads us to
believe that this is the first time the actual
crash site of Wham Bam has been pinpointed.
Although 15 at the time, Herr Beckersjtirgen

clearly recalled the aircraft spreading itself

across Hiittruperstrasse, two engines ending
up in the farmyard itself. There was no visible
sign of aircraft remains on the surface but our
assistant editor soon ferreted around and
uncovered several buried fragments and .50
calibre rounds.

At nearby Greven, we found that the
building where the crew were taken was in fact
the old town hall which had only recently
been pulled down to develop a pedestrian

shopping area.

Having obtained a transcript of the trial
from the Judge Advocate General's records

filed in America, when we reached Riissels-

heim we were able to retrace exactly the route
taken by the Wham Bam crew. . . from the
station past the Opel works to the Frankfurter
Strasse. . . along past the Park Hotel and the
former tobacconist shop where the trouble

first began, to the Taunusstrasse. By the time

they reached this corner, the Americans must
have been under little illusion that their lives
were seriously in danger as they stumbled
down towards the railway line. In bright

The cross marking the grave (No. 16) of
Haigus Tufenkjian in Row 48 of Plot E.

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protesting that ‘I saw a fellow Engel throw rocks at them.| did worker Johann Opper. ‘If the military won't give me another
nothing! Nothing!’ he cried as the hood was placed over his __ trial, could | be tried by the church’, he protested. He died his
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Philip Gutlich (/eft), another farmer, was more forthright in his last words to the 30
American soldiers present. ‘Il only did one thing [hit an airman with a club] and only
because the American stuck out his tongue at me.’ At these words Master Sergeant
Wood launched him into oblivion.

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Major Clarence L. Yancey of the USA War Crimes Office replied
to Mr Williams on November 9, the eve of the day that the
executions were due to be carried out in Bruchsal Prison, the
death sentences on Hartgen, Wust, Gutlich, Opper and Seipel
having been reviewed and approved by the European Theater
Judge Advocate. ‘I have your letter of October 2, 1945,
addressed to Major General Edward F. Witsell, Acting The
Adjutant General, with reference to the carrying out of the
executions of certain German civilians found guilty of the
beating and killing of American airmen at Risselsheim,
Germany,’ wrote Major Yancey. ‘The reason for the delay in
carrying out the decree of the court, is that the perpetrators of

this crime are being continually questioned as to their know-
ledge and identity of other individuals who may have commit-
ted certain other crimes and mistreatment to American military
personnel. If the decree of the court were carried out, these
investigations would have to be closed and thereby other
parties might escape, and not be identified and brought before
a court of justice. As soon as all investigations are completed,
the decree of the court will be carried out. | appreciate your
interest in this matter and | assure you that | too, am interested
in meting out swift justice to guilty parties who have brutaly
beaten and in many instances killed American military person-
nel.’

The gallows had been set up within the outer wall and
witnesses drawn up facing the scaffold. It was a cold November
day and it was raining. Newsmen and still and cine photo-

graphers were on hand to record the scene as Master Sergeant
John C. Wood, the US military executioner, prepared to carry
out the sentences.

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ad tLOWn about Trty Mites Prom) Kusselshein
called Dienheim and he was subsequently
tried at the Dachau War Crimes Court but.
although sentenced to death. the file indi-
cates that he was released on March |, 1948.

Although the basic facts of the ‘Rtisselshetm
Death March’ have been well publicised
before, we believe that this ts the first time that
the complete sequence of events has been
retraced. In our research we visited all the
salient locations: from the old USAAF base at
North Pickenham to the crash site near
Greven,; along the route taken by the airmen
in’ Rtisselsheim and thence to the cemeter\
(where also those Germans executed by the
Americans are now buried); to the temporary
gravesite at Bensheim, to the permanent US
cemetery at St Avold; from the court-house at
Darmstadt to the execution prison at Bruch-
sal.

Besides Sidney Brown and William
Adams, Forrest Brininstool survived the war
having been separated from the others to have
his injuries treated shortly after the crash.
Athough he obviously could not throw any
light on what happened in Rtisselsheim, he
The last to die was Hartgen escorted to the scaffold by a Catholic priest. Before he = gave us considerable help and was able to
mounted the steps he kissed a silver crucifix: ‘God forgive you because you don’t = furnish us with ‘escape’ pictures of the other
know what you’re doing’, he is reported as saying. members of the crew.

A theatrical finale for Hartgen as the photographer’s flashgun creates an almost Valkyrian end to the last act.

There was one last sequel. Major Rogers
had established that there were three or four
German soldiers present in the crowd who
‘had taken part in the proceedings and, a few
days after the trial was over, one of the = “may
witnesses revealed the name of one of them: :
Franz Umstatter. The witness stated that
Umstatter had been one of the more brutal
elements in the crowd, and other witnesses
were found who corroborated the story, even
so far as to testify that he had kicked the
Americans so hard he had broken the heel of
his boot. Major Rogers tracked him down to

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The bodies of those executed were
handed back to their families and all are
now buried in the same woodland set-
ting where their victims were first dis-
covered. This is Hartgen’s grave, the
inscription simply stating: ‘Hier ruhen
Jos. Hartgen 1904-1945.’


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it was formally designated the United States Disciplinary Bar-
racks by act of Congress in 1915. As a prison, however, it
dates back to 1874, when it was established as the first strictly
military prison in the United States. Until that time, military
prisoners were confined either to state penitentiaries or to the

4 stockades on military posts. The USDB was essentially the re-
sult of efforts by Major Thomas F. Barr, and its purpose was
to alleviate the condition and humanize the treatment of prison-
ers in those days, doing away with such practices as flogging,
branding, tattooing, shackling with ball and chain, and other
assorted punishments.

Through the years, jurisdiction over the USDB has passed

~ back and forth several times between the War Department and
the Justice Department, which used it as a federal penitentiary.
But since November 6, 1940, it has been entirely under the
‘control of the Department of the Army.

World War II brought to the disciplinary barracks the larg-
est aggregate of inmates in its history. By the summer of 1945,
with the war in Europe over and the war in the Pacific swiftly
drawing to an end, the disciplinary barracks was virtually
overflowing its capacity. The large-scale population of the pris-
on, problems created by the war, and the fragmented transi-
tion back to a peacetime existence combined to pose a variety
of unique, often unprecedented situations for the administra-
tors of the disciplinary barracks. Colonel William'S. Eley,
who had taken over as the prison commandant in October,
1943, almost daily confronted tasks and decisions that no com-
mandant before him had been forced to face.

Each morning, Colonel Eley arrived at his office in the prison’s
administration building and, as a matter of course, first went
through the mail that had been screened and personally directed
to him. On an oppressively hot Kansas morning in early July,
1945, a directive from the office of the Secretary of War made
him stop and sit back for a moment, even though Colonel Eley
had become accustomed to the unusual. Almost at once, how-

Fort Leavenworth 3

ever, he walked into the outer office with the paper still in his
hand and told one of the sergeants to send for Lieutenant Col-
onel Raymond Orr, the USDB quartermaster officer.

A few moments later, the sergeant appeared in the door-
way to Colonel Eley’s office. “Excuse me, sir. Colonel Orr’s
signed out for central detention. Do you want me to try and get x

\,

Five stories high, it has eight separate wings, e€ h
empties into a large rotunda. The Sige aehaoesta ae com-
pleted in 1921, was constructed for the part by prisoners
with rock they had quarried themselves. Inside, it is a metal-
lically clean, cold, and hollow dormitory. Each wing 1s cut off
from the rotunda by a heavily barred sliding door that eflective-
ly isolates the wing from all other parts of the building. The
largest wings each contain five tiers of cells and together house
all of the inmates, with the exception of trustee prisoners, who
are permitted to live in other, less secure buildings, and those
others who are on death row or in solitary and are confined to
the basement level of the castle. Qxs* 3

When Colonel Orr received the message from the comman-
dant, he concluded his business and walked across the rotunda
toward the large door that barred off the main entrance hall.
A sergeant at a desk on the outside pushéd a button and the
huge door slid open, barely paused as the colonel stepped
through, and then slid shut again.

The colonel picked up a pencil from the sergeant’s desk,
signed out on the roster, and then walked briskly into the pris-
on yard—actually a well-gardened mall that stretches the
length of a city block, from the entrance of the central deten-
tion building all the way up to the rear of the administration
building. A few trustee prisoners working on the mall ap-
peared busier than they actually were as the colonel strode

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of war camp at Papago Park, near

Phoenix, Ariz., all was quiet—too
quiet. An M. P. on sentry duty outside
the heavily guarded enclosure became un-
easy.

“[ haven’t seen a single kraut in half
an hour,” he remarked to a comrade. “I
have a sneaking feeling that some devil-
ment is afoot.”

Though it was only 8 o’clock on a
pleasant March evening,‘the place looked
deserted, Over 1,000 of Hitler’s supermugs
were confined there, but no sign of life
could be seen on the walks or in the open
spaces between the 43 barracks in which
they were housed. Usually at that hour the
brightly lighted grounds were sprinkled
with groups of Nazis.

“IT may be an old lady,” decided the
M. P., “but I'm going to play safe.”

Laying aside his automatic rifle, he
picked up a telephone and reported the

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EVEN A NAZI'S “ARROGANT CUNNING ‘COULDN'T STUMP A LIE. DETECTOR

suspicious state of affairs to his command-
ing officer. A small detachment of Gls was
assigned to’ investigate.

Suspecting that some of the prisoners
might have escaped, the Yanks started
from one barracks to another calling. the
roll in each. All the Germans were ac-
counted for except one—Werner Drechs-
ler, mechanikerobergefreiter of the cap-
tured U-boat Csygan, who had_ been
brought to the camp only four hours ~
fore.

A thorough search of the compound was
ordered, and before long a shout from a
soldier announced that he had found
Drechsler. The seaman who had fought
under the infamous swastika was dead,
hanging by a rope from a ceiling pipe in
the prisoners’ shower room.

‘Just couldn’t take it,” sneered an
Afmerican, unmoved. “He killed himself.”

A military policeman stood on a chair
and examined the rope by which Drechsler
was suspended.

“Somebody tried to make it look like
suicide,” he announced. “But it isn ’t—it’s
a case of murder!”

INSIDE DETECTIVE

, January, 1946

and |
August 25,

DEVELOPER OF THE POLYGRAPH—as the lie de-
tector is properly termed—Leonarde Keeler forced a
reluctant German war prisoner to reveal his secret.

IN THE DIAGRAM AT THE LEFT the encircled
numbers designate sections of the POW camp, those in
squares the different barracks. By a process of elim-
ination Keeler succeeded in locating the section (ar-
row) and barracks of one of the seven killers, and
finally he discovered the identity of the man himself.

The detective in khaki explained that
the threadlike fibers of the rope told the
real story.

One half of the eight-foot line stretched
from the purplish, swollen neck of the
victim to the pipe. The remainder of the
rope passed over the pipe and was fastened
to a wall valve three feet away.

“What happened is as plain as the nose
on Durante’s face,”” said the Army Sher-
lock. “The noose was put around his neck
and he was jerked off the floor. The end
of the line, which was pulled by the killer
or killers, slid across the pipe causing
those fibers of the rope which pressed
against the pipe to be flattened, so that now
they are directed upward.

“Tf he had hanged himself, the fibers
of that section of the rope would be in
their natural position—pointing outward,
like the fibers on other parts of the rope.”

“Nice of the nasty Nazis,” commented a
Yank. “If they just keep on hanging each
other, they’ll save us a lot of trouble.”

But that was not the attitude taken by
Army officials. The slaying was a crime—
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In addition, I would like to express my appreciation to the
following organizations: the Department of the Army, especial-
ly the office of the Deputy Undersecretary of the Army, the of-
fice of the Judge Advocate General, the Public Information
Office (Washington), the Fort Leavenworth Public Information
Office, and the Army Intelligence Command at Fort Holabird,
Maryland; the Department of the Navy, especially the Maga-
zine and Book Branch of the Office of Information, and the
Office of Naval Intelligence; the National Archives; and the
‘WAST Records Center in’ Berlin. There were many other
persons, offices and record depositories, in various govern-
mental departments and agencies whose cooperation pro-
vided a distinct contribution to my efforts and to whom I also
express my thanks, although they are too numerous to men-
tion here by name.

A printed acknowledgment is only a token of the appreci-
ation I have for the many people who have helped in all
phases of putting this book together.

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Fort Leavenworth

ag United States Disciplinary Barracks sits high
on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River at the north end of
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The surrounding hills, gently
sloping, heavily wooded, and rich in vegetation, contrast
sharply with the stark austerity of the prison compound. The
prison is not as massive as the neighboring federal penitentiary
in the city of Leavenworth, but is big enough to accomodate
as many as 2,000 prisoners. It looks much like any other
major prison: heavy stone walls with gun towers and a central
detention building standing coldly within the walls, its great
barred windows unmistakably revealing its function. In only
two ways, perhaps, does the disciplinary barracks vary from
other prisons: its inmates, except in rare circumstances, come
from the ranks of the U.S. army and the U.S. air force and
its guards are soldiers, not civilians.
Within the initial-conscious military world, the prison is suc-
cinctly referred to as the USDB, a name it has carried since

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Major L. P. Rogers (right) with Corporal
Sigi Strauss, interpreter, in Russelsheim

of a report by a Third Army officer sug-
gesting that the case be investigated and
a story sent by a reporter to the London
Daily Express at the time the American
Army took Russelsheim. Neither report
contained any names of perpetrators or
details of the crime.

Early in June, therefore, accompanied
by Lieutenant Ephraim London of Sea
Cliff, New York, and my interpreter, Cor-
poral Sigi Strauss, I set out for the town
of Russelsheim.

‘Our first stop in Russelsheim was at the
German police station. The police chief,
whose name was Wagner, told us that he
had béen appointed by the American
Military Government after the occupa-
tion of Russelsheim. He said that he
wasn’t living there at the time that the
flyers were murdered but he knew about
the case and had prepared a list of the
perpetrators which he had gathered from
the town gossip. He handed me a list of
twenty-one names. As I examined it, I
noticed the German word “fort” in paren-
thesis after several names. I asked the
interpreter what that meant and he said

‘that it meant “fled.” I then asked the

police chief where the other people were
and he said they were there in Russel-

- sheim. This news was almost too good

to be true. We had expected to find that
all or most of the murderers had scat-
tered.

The police chief told us that the burge-
meister knew much more about the case
and had been living in Russelsheim when
the murder occurred.- We decided to pay
a visit on the burgemeister.

We had found the police chief very co-
operative. Whether this was because he
wanted to see the murderers punished or
merely to ingratiate himself with the
American authorities, I don’t know. This
was not the case,- however, with the
burgemeister, Dorfler by name. He in-
formed us that he had already given the
information about the case to two other
American officers and besides he had to
attend a burgemeisters’ meeting that day
at same other town. It didn’t take very
long to change the burgemeister’s mind.

‘I told him that he wasn’t going anywhere

that day, that we would require several
hours of his time and that I didn’t care
how many people he had given the in-

It was along this railroad wall on the
Grabenstrasse that the murders took place

formation to. We questioned him for
several hours and for the first time got
the full story. Anda brutal and shocking
story it was. The burgemeister claimed
that he was not an eyewitness to the
murder but had heard all about it on the
day it happened.

With the help of the list that we had
gotten from the police chief, this is the
story that the burgemeister told:

The bombing attack on the night of
August 25th had destroyed the rail line
through Russelsheim. The next morning
about 8 o’clock the crew of flyers came
along the main street of the town. (The
burgemeister thought the flyers were
Canadians as did the other people in
Russelsheim. We did not discover that
they were Americans until the bodies

was disinterred.) As the prisoners ap-

proached the Parc Hotel, three women
who ran:a tobacco shop next door, Kathe
Reinhardt, her sister, Margarete Witzler,
and the latter’s daughter, Lilo, began to
shout at them, crying, “These are the

terror flyers, beat them to death.” <A ~

crowd started to gather. . The crowd was
in an ugly mood as a result of the raid
the night before. The three women then
began to throw stones at the flyers. The
crowd began to increase in size.

At this point, Philip Gutlich, a tavern
keeper, struck one of the flyers with a
club. The two German soldiers guarding
them did nothing to protect their pris-

‘oners.

The flyers now started to run. One of
the prisoners had an injured leg and two
of the others were carrying him on their
backs.

Here the local Nazi Party leader, Josef
Hartgen, came on the scene. In true Nazi
fashion, he soon ‘made his presence felt.
He shouted to the crowd to beat the flyers

to death and fired a pistol in the air sev-

eral times to’ further incite them.

As the -hard-pressed flyers ran along
the main street, they came to a side street.
They turned into this in an attempt to get
away from their attackers. The crowd,
now like beasts, followed them. A short

way down this street, a farmer, Johannes .

Seipel, beat the prisoners with a club and
a factory worker, George Daum, beat
them with a shovel. All the while they
were being pelted by bricks and stones.

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Johann Opper, beat them so hard wit
broom that it broke in his hands.

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along which ran a stone wall about
feet high. The unfortunate prison
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took place here. Three factory work:
August Wolf, Karl Fugmann and Fre
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side of the railroad tracks. As the fly
crouched together against the wall

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struck them on the head with a hamn
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wagon and the wagon pushed to the
cemetery. ‘The bodies were left there}
the wagon. In the evening, Hartgen
to the cemetery and some more
were heard. The next morning, the
dered flyers were buried together it
common grave.

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burgemeister. Eyewitnesses told me
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ran with blood. One eyewitness said
the prisoners suffered like Christ in
march of death.

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i LANKED by two soldier guards, the former Nazi leader
of Russelsheim, Josef Hartgen, walks slowly to the plat-
form. Behind him and the guards walks the chaplain,
praying. Hartgen mounts the steps. The hood is placed
over his head and the noose adjusted around his neck. A
noncom springs the trap—the body drops through the
door and there is a snap as the rope becomes taut. _

In the same manner, four others, all residents of Rus-
selsheim, one after the other ascend the gallows steps and
the same grisly job.is repeated.

The scene is the 7th United States Army prison at
Bruchsal, Germany. The time is November, 1945. The
five German civilians who have just been hung are paying
for the crime of murder—the, murder of a crew of
American airmen at Russelsheim. Their trial at Darm-:
stadt in July, 1945, was the first mass war crimes trial in
Europe. Circumstances of war had delayed the hand of
retribution ‘in this case for the crime for which they paid
goes back almost a year before.

On the night of August 25th, 1944, ‘the RAF bombed the
Opel Works at Russelsheim. This plant was an important
target since it was one of the main sources of parts for
the German Air Force. The RAF attack that night was a

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eRusselsheim Case

very successful one, a large part of the plant being put out
of action. By a strange quirk of fate, however, this raid
set the stage for the tragic case we are relating.

Earlier that day, an American B-24 bomber, on a mission
over Northern Germany, was shot down near Hanover
and its crew of nine men captured. One of the crew was
too badly injured to travel but the other eight were
placed on a train for Oberursel, a special camp near
Frankfurt-am-Main, where all captured Allied - flyers
were sent for interrogation. The eight Americans rode
all that day and night and the next morning at 8.0’clock
were within twenty-five miles of their destination at
Oberursel when their train came to the town of Russel-
sheim. The RAF attack.of the night before had knocked
out the railroad tracks through Russelsheim, so the train
could go no further. The prisoners left the train and, in
the custody of two German soldiers, proceeded on foot
through Russelsheim. ‘They were being led to the other
end of the town in order to pick up another train at that
point. As the Americans came to the center of the town,
they were set upon by a mob and beaten to death in the
street.

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vestigate this crime, because the combat
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2U.S. Army War Crimes Branch was
‘fully organized. A report of the mur-
<3 was sent to Third Army Headquar-
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velfth Army Group Headquarters.

suthe matter rested until the early part
‘June. In the meantime, the Army War
.nes Branch, whose principal function
3 to investigate crimes against prison-
sof war, was being organized. I was
—igned as a war crimes investigator, to
“velfth Army Group and arrived at their
sidquarters at Wiesbaden at the end of
:y. In looking through the files, I
‘xed out the Russelsheim case for early
won, The Russelsheim file consisted

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known that the victims were Americans

to arrest the perpetrators still living in
Russelsheim. Fourteen of the twenty-

one persons named were still in Russel--

sheim. The next morning, therefore, I

ig made ‘arrangements with the Military

Government at Gross Gerau to have these
persons arrested.

Early the next morning they were
faken into custody by the Military Gov-
ernment police and placed in the: Darm-
stadt jail. As might be expected, this
mass arrest created a sensation in Russel-
sheim. We were told that there was an-
other perpetrator who hadn’t been ar-
rested, a Heinrich Barthel, who was seen
striking the flyers with a club. We im-
mediately arrested him.

The two leading perpetrators, Hartgen

and Wust, were still missing. Both of these.

nen had fled from Russelsheim some time
vefore the end of the war.

We could now go to work to gather evi-
jence for the trial. Lieutenant London
ind I went looking for eyewitnesses. The
names of some of these we obtained from
‘he police chief and burgemeister, and
vhen we found them they in turn led us to

f others. Many of these people were not

very willing to talk. We told them they
need have no fear of telling the truth
cut, on the other hand, if they Jied or
withheld information from us it would
jo hard with them,

We took written statements in German
‘rom these witnesses.

As we questioned these people, more
and more of the tragic details of this case
were revealed. When the mob first
rmed around the flyers and the cry was
aken up—Beat them to death!”—one of
{ the prisoners, who could speak Ger-
un, cried out, “We didn’t bomb Russel-

} nein.” Further along this same prisoner

ad cried out, “Don’t kill me—I have a

| site and two children.”

It became increasingly clear that the
‘wo sisters, Kathe Reinhardt and Mar-
carete Witzler, were the first ones to shout
ithe prisoners and to incite the crowd.
hey were also the first ones to use vio-
ence by throwing stones and, in the case
‘Kathe Reinhardt, by striking one of the
yers on the head with a large piece of
sate and knocking him down. One wit-
‘ess told us that these women had boasted
or days after the murder that if it hadn’t

Defendants in the Russelsheim massacre case are shown in dock at trial in

Darmstadt, Germany. This was the first mass war crimes trial held in Europe

been for them, the flyers would have pro-
ceeded unharmed.

It also became clear that Hartgen took
command after he came on the scene. He
immediately became the mob leader. One
witness told us that in the brutal finish at

the railroad wall, Hartgen went along ex-'

amining the bodies and would tell the
others, “Beat this one—he’s still alive.”

Everyone we spoke to in Russelsheim,
we questioned regarding the whereabouts
of Hartgen and Wust. We finally suc-
ceeded in discovering Wust’s where-
abouts. He had moved to a town called
Oppenheim. Lieutenant London went
there and arrested him. :

We now had all the perpetrators except
Hartgen and the three German soldiers,
whom nobody seemed to know by name.
No one we spoke to in Russelsheim could
give us any information regarding Hart-
gen. I then checked the list of arrests
made by the Army, a copy of which we
had at War Crimes Headquarters. I dis-
covered that the Counter-Intelligence
Corps had arrested Hartgen in May at
Memmingen because of his position in
the Nazi Party. The problem now was to
find his present whereabouts. The CIC
had arrested thousands of these Nazis and
in many cases they were subsequently
moved from one retention camp to an-
other. In the gigantic task of handling
these and millions of prisoners of war, it
was not a simple matter for the Army to
find one individual. We placed a special
request with Seventh Army Headquar-
ters to locate Hartgen.

After taking statements from a fair
number of eyewitnesses, we began our
interrogation of the perpetrators in the
Darmstadt jail. What a poor collection
they were—all typical small-town louts.
A few of them admitted playing a small
part in the murder. Most of them, how-
ever, claimed that they hadn’t done any-
thing but they saw this or that one doing
something. They didn’t hesitate to impli-
cate one another. After about two weeks
of steady interrogation, we had taken
statements from all of them.

The next job was the unpleasant one of
disinterring the bodies for evidence. Ac-
cordingly, we made arrangements with
the Graves Registration Group of the
Army. We had the police chief of Russel-

sheim supply us with six of the leading
Nazis in the town to do the digging. When
the grave was opened, we found for the
first time that the flyers were Americans.
The people of Russelsheim had thought
they were Canadians. We were also sur-

prised to find only six bodies whereas .

almost everybody had testified that there
were eight flyers in the group. We dug
in every direction around the grave but
could find no more bodies. :

Captain Berg, the pathologist, exam-
ined the bodies. While they were badly
decomposed, there was still evidence of
horrible skull and body injuries. In addi-
tion, most of them had been shot in the
head one or more times. Four of the six
bodies had dogtags on them. I made a
record of the names and serial numbers as
evidence for the trial and also to obtain
additional information about the crew
from Air Force Headquarters.

The bodies were brought by the Graves
Registration men to Bensheim for a more
thorough examination by the pathologist.
They were then buried in the American
cemetery there. .

It was now the end of June and the
case was rounding into shape for trial.
Colonel Leon Jaworsky of Houston,
Texas, one of the ace trial lawyers of the
Army, was assigned to prosecute the case.

It now remained to secure more testi-
mony of eyewitnesses to the murder. I
spent every day in Russelsheim question-
ing people. I was now working alone on
the investigation, Lieutenant London
having been transferred. After question-
ing everybody I could find who was
present at the murder, I then went along
the death route and questioned everybody
in the houses along the way. This latter
method achieved excellent results and
after about two weeks of this work, I ob-
tained three or four eyewitnesses against
each one of the defendants.

In the meantime, we had released six
of the witnesses from the Darmstadt jail.
There was no case against them and their
names had been included in the police
chief’s list because they were present in
the crowd. Some of them were good wit-
nesses for the trial. One of them, a
woman, testified to a particularly brutal
act that she witnessed. One of the flyers
was sitting on (Continued on page 72)

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-Pranz Boettger,. Peter, Betz, Anton Endres, : ‘Simon Kiern,: Michael Redwitz
‘Wilhelm: Welter, Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop, Wilhelm Tempel, Hugo Alfred i...
“Erwin? Lausterer,. FritaMeooh. Becher, Alfred Kramer, Sylvester Filles:
spoeck,. “Vinzenz Behoettl, Albin Gretsch, Johann Viktor Kirach, Hans ...:

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of DACHAU ‘and ‘LANDSBER Germany, between: about 1 Jan wary. 1942) and »

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aid; abet and, participate.

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: Bhinzelhelten: bass martin Gotti@ried Weiss, Friedrich Wilnelm
Ruppert, Josef Jarolin, Franz Xaver Trenkle, Engelbert Valenvin
Wéiicdermayer, Josef Seuss, Leonhard Anselm Eichberger, Wilhelm Wagner,

“Johann Kick, Dr. Fritz Hintermcyer, Dr. Wilhelm Witteler, Johann
 Qaptist Eichelsdorfer, Otto Forschner, Dr. Hans urt Hisels, Dr. a

.Kleus Karl Schilling, Christof Ludwig Knoll, Dr. Fridolin Karl Puhr,
- Franz Bottger, Peter Betz, Anton sndres, Simon Kiern, .iichael Redwitz,
“Wilhelm Welter, Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop, Wilhelm Tompel, Hugo Alfred
. Erwin Lausterer, Fritz u. kh. Becher, Alired Kramer, Sylvestor Fille- |
 bock, Vinzenz Schottl, Albin Gretsch, Johann Viktor Kirsch, Hans
© Aumeier, ‘Emil Erwin wah, Walter adolf Langleist, Johann Schépr, Arno
i. Lippmann, Hans Bayer, Fritz Degelow, Otto Moll, Otto Schulz und Fried-
» rich Wetzel in Verfolgung eines zee inschaftliohen Vorhabens handel- —_
~s ten, um die Taten, die hiernach behauptet werden, zu begehen und als »
; Mitglieder der Verwaltung des Fonzentrationsiagers Dachau und dazu
, &ehoeriger Aussenlager in oder in der Umgebung von Dachau und Lands-
berg, Deutschland, ungefahr zwiscnen ungefaéhr dem 1 Januar 1942 und
_ungefaéhr dem 29. April 1945, absichtlich, vorsatzlich und rechtswid- § ’

rig dabei geholfen, dari untersitzt und daran teilgenonmen haben,
| dase zivile Staatsangehoerige von Staaten, die sich zu dieser Zeit
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'.pamkeiten, Misshandlungen einschliesslich Toetungen, Prugelungen, Fol-
. terungen, Verhungerungen, tatlichen Ubergriffen und Erniedrigungen
\ ausgesetzt wurden, Dic genaucn Namen und dic Zahl dieser zivilen
. Staatsangehoerigen ist nicht bekannt, aver sie efoicht insgesamt vi-

» @le Tausende derjenigen, die sich zu dicser Zeit und an diesem Orte
. dm Gewahrsam des Deutschen Reiches befanden, das sie unter dem Recht- |
stitel kriegsfUhrender Uberwachung festhielt.) §

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- SECOND CHARGE: Violation of the Laws and Usages of War.

/rarticulars: In that. dWartin Gottfried Weiss, Friedrich Wilhelm |

+ Ruppert, Josef Jarolin, Franz Xaver Trenkle, Engelbert Valentin

' Nledermeyor, Josef Seuss, Leonhard 4nsclm Eichberger, Wilhelm Wagner,

;. Johann Kick, Dr. Fritz Hintermaycr, Dr. Wilhelm Witteler, Johann

, Baptist Eichelsdorfer, Otto Foerschner, Dr. Hans hurt Eisele, Dr.

» Klaus-Karl Schilling, Christof Ludwig Knoll, Dr. Fridolin Karl Puhr,
Franz Boettger, Peter Betz, Anton “ndres, Simon Kiern, Michael Red-
““witz, Wilhelm Welter, Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop, Wilhelm Tempel,-. Hugo
Alfred Erwin Lausterer, Fritz ii. K. Becher, Alfred Kramer, Sylvester >
)Filleboeck, Vinzenz Schocttl, Albin Gretsch, Johann Viktor Kirsch,

» Hans Aumeier, Emil Erwin mahl, Walter Adolf Langleist, Johann Schoepp. -
Arno Lippmann, Hans Bayer, Fritz Degelow, Otto Moll, Otto Schulz and
‘Friedrich Wetzel, /acting in pursuance of a common design to commit the
) acts hereinafter alleged, and as members of the staff of Dachau Con-.

- centration Camp, did, at or in the vicinity of .DACHAU, Germany, be- »
“tween about 1 January 1942 and about 29 april 1945, willfully, de- ae
* liberately and wrongfully encourage, aid, abet and participate inthe’)
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the then German Réich, who wero then and there surrendéred and-un-

4. armed prisoners .of war in the custody of the then German Reich, te.
“eruelties ana mistreatment, including killings, beatings, tortures,
i(/ptarvation, abuses and indignities, the exact names and numbers. of
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“helm Welter, Rudolf! He inrich Suttrop, Wilhelm Tempel, Hugo Alfved Ep.”
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i\Vanzeng Schost1l; &lbdin Gretsch, Johann Viktor Lirgseh,’ Hans Aumoier, |:
Bold Erwin Mahl, Walter AOOKt Ianzleist, (Johann “SchOpp, 4rno. Ron aaene

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(Continued from page 47) the sidewalk with
a piece of slate from a roof sticking in his
skull.

As the boy sat there in a daze, Johan-
nes Seipel came over and kicked him in
the face.

All this time, we kept checking with
Seventh Army Headquarters regarding
Hartgen. Finally, our perseverance was re-
warded. We were notified one day that
Hartgen had been located in one of the
Seventh Army enclosures. We requested
that he be transferred immediately to the
Wiesbaden jail. Colonel Jaworsky interro-
gated Hartgen after he arrved in Wiesbaden.
Hartgen refused to admit anything. He was
the toughest one of the accused. Colonel
Jaworsky questioned him all morning and
told him some of the evidence we had
against him. .

The Colonel Jeft some paper and a pencil
with him and told him to write the truth
about his part in the murder. We then went
to lunch.

When we came back to the jail about an
hour later, we found that Hart-
gen had slashed his wrists on the

The Russelsheim Case —

hardt, Margarete Witzler, Philip Gutlich,
Johann Opper and Johannes Seipel were
sentenced to death by hanging. George
Daum was sentenced for twenty-five years
at hard labor and Heinrich Barthel and
August Wolf to fifteen years at hard labor.
Karl Fugmann was acquitted.

About three weeks after the trial a
startling fact came to light. We discovered
that there were two survivors of the mur-
der! General Davidson received a letter
from two soldiers stationed at an air base
in Florida stating that they had read about
the trial in the newspaper. They revealed
that they had been members of the crew
and had escaped during the night from the
farm wagon in the Russelsheim cemetery.
They were recaptured a few days later and
placed in a prisoner of war camp. They
had been freed when American troops over-
ran this camp and a short time later re-
turned to the States.

There can be no question that these boys
told the story of the murder of their com-
rades to someone in authority before they

were key instigators of the murder a
were more guilty than some of the me:
condemned to death.

On November 10th, the five men wer
hanged in the Army prison at Bruchsal, nez:
Heidelberg.

Our story is not yet finished. Earlier:
mentioned the fact that there were three 0:
four German soldiers who took part in the
beating at the railroad wall, whom nobod:
in Russelsheim seemed to know by nam:
A few days after the trial was completed
one of the witnesses told me that he now
remembered the name of one of these sol-
diers. His name was Franz Umstatter ané
he was not well known in Russelsheim be-
cause he lived in a little settlement outside
the town. He was home on furlough at the
time of the murder. His family had since
moved to a town about thirty miles awa:
called Dienheim. A short time later, I wen:
to Dienheim and arrested Umstatter. He
proved to be the worst-looking criminal of
them all and was built like a gorilla. I had
the eyewitnesses look at Umstatter but none

of them remembered him except
the one who first told me abou:

side of the bed. He had written
on the paper, “I will not be a
traitor. Heil Germany!” He
signed this with his thumb print
in blood.

We immediately called a doc-
tor, who said that Hartgen was
in a very serious condition and
should be moved to a hospital.»
This was done and, with the aid
of blood plasma, Hartgen was all
right in about a week.

The trial was held on July 25th
in the old German Courthouse
in Darmstadt before a six-man
military commission headed by
Brigadier General Garrison Da-
vidson. The defendants were
represented by Lieutenant Colo-
nel Roger Titus of Boston and by
German lawyers of their own
choosing. ‘The courtroom was
open to everyone because the
Army wanted to show the Ger-"
mans that the defendants were
receiving a fair trial. The court-
room was packed every day of
the trial, many of the spectators
being residents of Russelsheim.
_ The .trial lasted six days.
Colonel Jaworsky presented
about forty eyewitnesses for the

“This will end those rumors about their being in love!”

him. This witness stood firm in
his testimony and _ said tha
Umstatter had been one of the
most brutal of the crowd. He
also said that as the bodies were
piled onto the farm wagon, Um-
statter had removed the shoes
from one of the victims saying
that dead men didn’t need shoes.
Since I couldn’t find anyone in
Russelsheim proper who could
identify Umstatter, I went to his
old neighborhood. I didn’t find
anyone here who witnessed the
murder but I very quickly found
a half-dozen witnesses who testi-
fied that’ on the morning of the
murder, they saw Umstatter
come back to his house and heard
him boast that he had beaten the
flyers so hard that he had broken
the heel of his boot. He was
carrying his boots in his hand
and announced that he had taken
.the brown shoes he was wearing
from one of the flyers.
Captain William R. Vance, who
had been the assistant prosecutor
in the Darmstadt Trial, prose-
cuted Umstatter at Dachau
‘earlier this year and he was
sentenced to death.

prosecution. The defense con-
sisted of claiming extenuating
circumstances for the accused inasmuch
as the murder took place a few hours after
the town was badly bombed. In some

cases, the accused also produced character

witnesses. Hartgen had the gall to ask

the local priest to testify as to his good

character but the priest refused, saying
that Hartgen was the biggest Nazi in Rus-
selsheim.
- During the trial, the commission visited
the scene of the murder in order to study
at first hand certain points of the testimony.
They went on foot over the entire death
route. a
_ In their summations, the German lawyers
resorted to the defense that is now the
usual thing at German war crimes trials,
that of blaming the crime on‘ someone
higher up. They put the blame variously
on Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler and several
others. It is not in the German nature to
accept individual responsibility for war
crimes. :

After the prosecution and defense rested,
the commission, having deliberated for
about eight hours, announced its verdict.

Josef Hartgen, Friedrich Wust, Kathe Rein-

left the European Theatre. Whatever hap-
pened to the report, no one knew. It was
almost impossible for us to believe that
anyhody could have survived that terrible
beating in Russelsheim, not to mention the
shooting. — fae
We immediately cabled the Office of the
Judge Advocate General in Washington, re-
questing that the two survivors be fully
interrogated regarding the murder. In due
time, the report was returned. Neither of
the two could give any names or believed
that they could identify anybody. After all,
it was then a year and a half after the crime.
The War Crimes Authorities decided there
was no point in bringing these survivors

back to Europe. I couldn’t help thinking .

what an advantage it would have been if
we had had these two survivors with us
when we began our investigation of the
case. .
The record of the trial was reviewed by
Seventh Army Authorities and General
Keyes, commanding general, commuted the
death sentence of the two women to thirty
years in prison. We couldn’t see the basis
for this decision inasmuch as the two women

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The Army War Crimes Group
now has the names of the other
three soldiers involved in the murder. If
they are still alive, they will some day
be found and punished.

This then is the true story of the Rus
selsheim case, when, for the first time, jus-
tice was visited upon the Germans for the
murder of American prisoners of war. This
type of war crime is particularly repre-
hensible to Americans because it is well
known that German prisoners of war in
this country were very well treated:

War is at best a grisly business but that
is no excuse for ignoring all the laws of
humanity. I found in Germany an intense
dislike toward flyers. This is because the
Air Force taught the Germans their stern-
est lesson and the one they will remember
longest. They speak often of the terrible
raids on Germany but few admit knowledge
of Warsaw, the towns of Northern France
or Coventry, and none I spoke to admitted
knowledge of Rotterdam.

If future wars come, it is probably to
much to expect that no cities will be hit, but
the work of Army War Crimes Group may

prevent at least the recurrence of a Russels- B

heim case.

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‘LANDSBERG, Germany, May
29.—(UP)—The twin black gal-
lows of Landsberg prison broke
the necks of the last 14 condemned
operators and guards of Dachu
concentration camp today. |

‘Fourteen were’ hafiged yester-,
day, including Dr. Hans Schilling,
74, Nazi scientist who murdered:
hundreds in what he described as
research to find a malaria vaé-
cine.

'The 28th and last man to die
was one-legged. Leonhard Eich-
berger, carried up the gallows
steps by American military police.
Some Die Defiantly.

“Some of the condemned men
‘ lied defiantly; most of them pro-
tésted their innocence. Only one,
Christoff Knoll, erstwhile Com-
munist and Dachau inmate before
he staried to assist the Nazis with
their murders, thanked the Amer-

icans: for treating hin ‘well.

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tions, by the-Allies in Europe,

“were carried out near the window

ofthe jail cell in which Adolph’
Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” in

1023,
0. Nazis Convicted.

.“The whole dock of 40 defend-
anid who were brought to trial,
last December for murdering 300,. |
000 Allied nationals and political
prisoners at Dachau was con-
wactgd.

‘Having spent: ‘their last hours
singing to cheer. each other, the!

condemned men«were led to the '

gallows and up the steps. Master
Segt..John Woods of San Antonio, '
Tex., the Army’s official hangman |
in’ ‘the European Theater and a
veteran of more than 200 execu-
tions, and his_ German, assistant,
Johann Reichart of Munich, ma-
nelivered them dround™ imfil they
were squarely in the center of
the traps. _

“Black: caps were pulled. over
the head of each man. Woods and
Réichart pulled ths levers.
Farewell Shouted.. =”

“Martin Gottfried, the Dachats
cormmandant and the sixth man
to. die today, shouted - ‘“Deutsch-
land lebe wohl (Farewell to Ger+
many)” just before the trap ‘was
sprung.

Wilhelm Wagner, who ran the
Dachau laundry, stood at atten-
tion and barked: “I die for Ger-
many. I’ hope God will. forgive
you. I hope when ‘your time |
capes you will die as bravely as!

«Fritz Becker’s last words were!
“Tam dying innocently for my
fatherland.” Arnot Lippman car-
ried a bouquet ‘of spring flowers
tothe gallows. Wilhelm Temple
clutched a bunch of- violets.

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DEPUTY JUDGE ADVOCATE'S OFFICE
7708 WAR CRIMES GROUP
EUROPEAN COMMAND

12 June 19h7 ©
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UNITED STATES
v8 | | |
| 7 ) Case No. 000-50-2=23
Alex Bernhard PIORKOWSKI, . |
Heinz Georg Alfred DETERS,
both German nationals
| REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1, TRIAL DATA: >
Tried at Dachau, Germany
Dates 6-17 January 19h7-
General Military Government ‘Court
ACCUSED © eS DATA SENTENCE
PIORKOWSKI, Alex Bernhard Age )2 Death by hanging

SS Camp Commandant
Ranks; Lieutenant
Colonel

DSTMERS, Heinz Georg Alfred | Age 27
| SS Camp Adjutant
Ranks Lieutenant

FIRST CHARGE: Violation of the.
Iaws and Usages of War

PARTICUIARS: In that Alex Bernhard PIORKOWSKLI
PICGRKOWSKI, Heinz Georg Alfred DETMERS
DSTHERS, acting in pursuance of a Z |

common design to commt the acts

hereinafter alleged, and as individu-

als aiding in the operation of the.

Dachau Concentration Camp and camps

subsidiary thereto, did, at or in

the vicinity of DACHAU and LANDSBERG,
Germany, between about 1 January

19),2 and about 29 April 1915, willfully,
deliberately, and wrongfully encourage, .
aid, abet and participate in the. !
subjection of civilian nationals.

of nations then at war with the then
German Reich to cruelties and mis-.
treatment, including killings,
beatings, tortures, starvation,

abuses and indignities, the exact

names and numbers of such civilian
nationals being unknomn but aggre=

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and there in the custody of the
German Reich in exercise of belligerent
control. |

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PIORKOWSKI, Heins Georg Alfred DETMERS NG Qa

DETHERS, acting in pursuance of a

common design to commit the acta

hereinafter alleged, and as individue

ale aiding in the operation of the

Dachau Concentration Camp and camps

subsidiary thereto, did, at or in ©

the vicinity of DACHAU and LANDSBERG,

Germany, between about 1 January | ,

192 and about 29 April 195,

willfully, deliberately and wrong-

fully enoourage, aid, abet and

participate in the subjection of

members of the armed forces of

nations then at war with the then

German Reich, who were then and there

surrendered and unarmed prisoners of

war in the custody of the then German

Reich, to cruelties and mistreatment,

including killings, beatings, tortures, |

starvation, abuses and indignities,

the exact names and numbers of such

prisoners of war being unimom, but

aggregating many hundreds.

2. RECOMMENDATIONS: That the findings and the sentences be approved,

3- EVIDENCE:

For the Prosecution. The prosecution's case was based on oral sworn

testimony of thirtyfour witnesses and 6 Exhibits as hereinafter indicated.
Exhibit P-1 is a certified copy of the charges, particulars, findings and
sentences in the Parent Dachau Concentration Camp case (U.S. vs Weiss etal.,
000-50-2, March 196, hereinafter referred to as the "Parent Case"; R 66).
Exhibit P-2, consists of the original records kept at Camp Dachau showing the
status of the prisoners such as death, transfers and new arrivals (R 299)
Exhibits P-3 and kh, are sketches of the cold water eepowtasite (R 363).
Exhibit P-5 is the official death book of Camp Dachau (R 392). Exhibit PS is
an inmate's card from the original card files of Camp Dachau (R 393).

It was showm that accused PIORKOWSKI was SS camp commander and accused
DETMERS was SS camp adjutant at Camp Dachau for considerable periods of time
between the dates alleged,

For the Defense. The defense's case was based on oral sworn testimony

of eleven witnesses and 21 exhibits as hereinafter indicated, Exhibit D-1, a

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On the morning of March 13, 1944, someone haphazardly made up Werner
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denied knowledge of what had happened during the night.

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The large bloodstain, two fect in diameter, in front of Drechsler’s cot testifies
to the violence of the fight on the night of March 12, 1944.

U.S. Army photo.

Exterior view of the shower room of Compound 4 at Papago Park—the exe-
cution chamber for Werner Drechsler. Between one and two hundred pris-
oners filed past the windows on the night of March 12, 1944, to view the
hanging body.

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revealed, and all the fragments of information that hi
gathered from previous interrogations finally fell intc
Murza labored on, reconstructing the events and the p
answer to the relentless probing of Colonel Churc
scented success. Murza described how he had returne
barracks with Siegfried Elser to change his shoes wh
changed clothes.

“And then what happened?”

“The others came out of their barracks.”

“All of these people that you’ve mentioned?”

“Yes, all came out. I don’t know whether Bleise ¢
because he worked as a salesman in the canteen
should have been in the canteen at that time.”

“Did you see Guenther Bleise later?”

“No, I didn’t see Bleise any more that day.”

“Were all of the men you mentioned before in th
group there?”

“All the men of the second group returned too. Seve
joined us whose names I don’t know. But I know tha
Weimer was one of them.”

“And what other ones joined that you knew?”

“Several men, they were the same men who had
Hox’s office but I don’t know their names.”

“And then where did you go?”

“We went to the 5th Company. The entire gro
there.”

“And where did you go?”

“We went to the last barracks of the 5th Company

“Was that the barracks that Drechsler was in?”

aes.”

“Then what did you do?”

“We went inside the barracks.”

“All of these men went inside the barracks?”

Murza shook his head slowly. “About half of the r
inside the barracks and got Drechsler.”

U.S. Army photo courtesy Fort Leav- ‘

enworth Public Information Office.

Kichard P. Messill

The United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is
dominated by an eight-wing “castle,” the basement of which was the last home
of the condemned German prisoners. The old salvage warehouse, which
served as the execution chamber, is the building with the white rook in the
lower left corner.

The “seven” were buried at this wooded, out-of-the-way site at Fort Leaven-
worth, The simple headstones bear only their names, ranks, and dates of birth

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258 MARITAL JUSSICE

legal staff. And Harry Truman was an incredibly busy man
in the carly days of July, 1945; he was still fighting the war
in the Pacific and working at the.peace arrangements of the
Potsdam Conference, not to mention pondering such titanic
questions as the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.

The war in Europe had been over for almost two months,
but the fervor of anti-German feeling had not slackened among
the gencral population of the United States. The horrors of
Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Belden-Belsen were now .
common knowledge; and the ghastly pictures of emaciated,
half-dead prisoners who had somchow survived to be liberated
by the American army and of those not so fortunate whose
bodies were found stacked in huge piles like so much firewood
illustrated the grotesque nightmare of the German treatment of
Jews, gypsies, prisoners of war, and anyone else who hap-
pened to fall out of favor. The American people were-enraged
at the barbarism, and their opinions of the Germans were as
bitter as they had been when the war first broke out. German-
Amcricans felt the burden of their ancestry, and it was not un-
common for a brick to be thrown through the window of a
German immigrant’s house, even though the German-Amer-

ican might have had two sons still overseas fighting in the
American army. :

There had been sOme improvement in public information,
however, and the charges of coddling German prisoners of
war were no longer heralded in the country’s newspapers
and radio broadcasts. In fact, the newspapers were now writ-

ing stories like this one from the Bayonne, New Jersey,
Times:

Our so-called “coddling” of Germah war prisoners has saved the
lives of many American prisoners in Germany, the International
Red Cross reveals. io :

A Swiss Red Cross official has stated that when Hitler ordered
the execution of American and British aviators last March (1945),
his officers disobeyed him because they knew that both Allied coun-

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tries had lived up to the Geneva Convention covering Geman
of prisoners of war. Thus 99 percent of American prisoners sur-'t

vived Hitler’s intended vengeance.

This does not condone the Germans’ unspeakable treatment of
political, as distinct from military, prisoners. There was sp
Geneva Convention for Dachau, Buchenwald, and sienna’ ut
‘t does vindicate the humane treatment of prisoners, in accordance
with an honorable pledge, which apparently appealed to the re-
maining vestige of decency in the German army.

Although such statements may have soothed the anti-
German POW sentiments, it did little to mellow the turbu-
lent anti-German feeling throughout the country. —

Without doubt, the most extreme example of anti-German
sentiment was embodied in a young American army Priv
vate named Clarence Bertucci. The young man, who had
never been in combat, was assigned to guard duty at a
temporary POW camp in Salina, Gis One pice es
the guard tower, he turned the tower s 30-caliber mac a
gun on the tents where the German POWs were sleeping 0
opened fire, raking one row after the other. \\ sa 1e
finally stopped, cight Germans were dead and twenty ee
wounded. Bertucci calmly announced later that he hate
Germans and therefore he had killed Germans., The actions
of Private Bertucci were hardly typical, but they were fos-
tered by the times and serve as a tragic but vivid testament
to the feclings of the day. )

(shaplain Towle was well aware of the undercurrent of ie
trust and antipathy toward Germans in general. He eee u ,
kept this from the seven men whom he talked to aa y -
as gracefully as possible ignored their questions as to W a a

American people thought about their being sentenced Lo ea 7

Because the whole alinosphere was dreadfully suspicious, me

chaplain made it a point to keep his own feclings about i

likability of the seven young men and_ his concern “ es

severity of their sentence from the cars and minds of his
superior officers and his own pecrs.


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260 MARTIAL JUSTICE

Through June and into the first week of July, the days be-
gan to drag for all of the condemned prisoners at Fort

Leavenworth. Day after day went by with no word forth- -

coming. The men began to grect Chaplain Towle each day
with the same line, “Any news yet?” but he would simply
shake his head negatively and try to change the subject.

On July 6, all that changed. It was in the morning, some-
where around ten o’clock, when the heavy barred door to the
corridor slid open and a lieutenant and two guards came brisk-
ly through it. They walked past several cells and stopped in
front of Edgar Menschner’s. All fifteen of the prisoners watched
the three men in silence.

“Menschner?” the lieutenant called into the cell.

The prisoner was sitting on his bunk staring up at the lieu-
tenant. “Yes, sir.”

“Get your things; you’re moving upstairs.”

“What do you mean?” Menschner was startled.

“You’re moving: to a cell upstairs. You’re a very lucky
bastard. I’ve got order to move you out of here. Your sen-
tence was commuted by the President.” The lieutenant
paused and then added, “To twenty years.”

Menschner stood up and walked slowly toward the door
of his cell and looked through the bars deeply into the lieu-
tenant’s face. “Is it really true?” he asked.

“It’s true. Get your stuff and let’s get going.” The lieutenant
motioned to one of the guards to open the cell door. .

The other prisoners in the first few moments of this astonish-
ing revelation were awe-struck, They stared dumbly out of

their cells at the three Americans. Then one of them shouted
from his cell, “What about us? What are they going to do

' with us?”

The lieutenant looked down the row of cells to the vicinity
of where the voice came from but said nothing in response.

“Is there any word on us?” It was the same voice. But there
was still silence.

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The lieutenant looked around uneasily and then finally |,

said, “No, nothing on any of you yet. Only Menschner.”
He turned back quickly to Menschner, who was gathering
up his bedding and his few other articles.

Menschner stepped out into the corridor, his arms full. “Can

I say good-bye to my comrades?” he asked the lieutenant.

The lieutenant nodded and Menschner put his belongings

down on the floor of the corridor. He went from cell to cell,
shaking hands and listening to the congratulations each of
his comrades exuberantly expressed. When he reached Otto
Stengel’s cell, he stopped and smiled. Stengel had become a
close friend during their outings in the corridor, and the two

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men had talked at length many times. J ll see you upst ;
Otto,” Menschner said as they were shaking hands. “We'll all

irs together. It won’t be long.”
Cavell be a there,” Stengel said, smiling toe. “You ha
for us, you son of a bitch. We'll be along. Don't go off an
leave us.” And they all laughed heartily.
Both chaplains, Captain Towle and Major Sagar, arrived
together later that morning and were greeted by an enthusias-
tic and hopeful group of prisoners. The door to Menschner s
now-empty cell was still open, but the chaplains had known well
before they arrived that Menschner had moved out. The event
of the morning was, of course, the prime topic of conversa-
tion. It was a sudden glimmering of something really sub-
stantial, and it had an enormous impact on the prisoners
morale. Fischer,‘Franke, Kuelsen, Ludwig, Reyak, Stengel,
afid Wizuy were especially optimistic in light of the fact that
their sentences, like Menschner’s, had not previously been
confirmed, and now it appeared that there was a definite
foundation for hope for a merciful hearing at the highest
level of their appeal. The defendants in the Beyer and Gauss
cases had no idea how, if at all, this would affect their con-
firmed sentences, but it certainly seemed to be a light in an

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266 MARTIAL JUSTICE

over or not, they’re still bastards.” And then he slumped
down into the chair he had brought out from his cell.

Guenther Kuelsen joined the others in the corridor and
asked Chaplain Towle: “That’s tomorrow night, isn’t it?”

“Yes, at midnight.”

Helmut Fischer was sitting at the table when Kuelsen
came out, his head in his hands, staring down at the
coarse grains of wood. He looked up when Kuelsen spoke
and sat back in his chair, but said nothing.

“I'll be here all day tomorrow,” the chaplain continued.
“I’ve made arrangements so that the cells will be open all
day.” There was an awkward silence and the chaplain
seemed to be searching for something to say. “You'll all
want to write letters home tomorrow, I’m sure. Is there
anything you need?”

“No,” Fischer answered for the group, and the others nod-
ded in agreement. 7

“They don’t give you much time once they make up their
minds, do they?” Fritz Franke asked bitterly.

“You wouldn’t want a lot of time, I’d think. Would you,
once you finally knew?” Chaplain Towle asked.

_“I suppose not. I don’t really give a shit any more.”

Stengel walked around the table, shuffling slowly but
constantly moving. “What good is it going to do for them
to kill us? The war’s over. Don’t they know that?” he asked
rhetorically. “I have a wife and children in Germany, may-
be starving to death right now, I don’t know. Who’s going
to help them?”

“Take it easy, Otto,” Fischer said.

But Stengel barely paused. “It’s not for killing a traitor.
It’s because they’re still fighting the war. We did our duty
and they’re going to hang us for it. It’s stupid, it’s god-
damned stupid. And there’s nothing we can do about it, just
sit here and let it happen.” And then looking directly at

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Execution 267

Chaplain Towle, Stengel said, “Why are they doing this to \

us?” Before the chaplain could answer, however, Fischer
spoke up. “It doesn’t matter why now. It’s going to happen,
that’s it.”

“You think I don’t know that?” Stengel said.

“We all knew it right along,” Fischer began again. “We all
knew this might happen, and now it has. All we can do
now is die like good German sailors. We all agreed to
that. We have nothing to be ashamed of.”

“I’m not ashamed of anything. I’m proud I did my duty.
I’m saying they’re wrong, that’s all. And I’m trying to
find out why the hell they’re doing it. I think I at least
have the right to know. Can somebody tell me that?”

“Shut up, Otto. You’re just making it worse,” Fischer said,
staring coldly up at Stengel.

Stengel did not answer, but he stopped pacing.

Fischer then turned to the chaplain. “We will die as good
Germans, just as we lived.” He looked then at the others in
the corridor and in their impassive, sullen faces he could
see that they were all in agreement. Even Otto Stengel
nodded his head slowly in concurrence.

“You know you will be allowed to wear your uniforms, ” the
chaplain said. “You'll want to, I imagine.”

Fischer spoke for the group. “Yes, what’s left of them. We

don’t have full uniforms, you know. Only what we had on >

the submarine.”

“I?ll see that they’re gotten out of storage and cleaned up for
you tomorrow.”

At a few minutes before ten o’clock, the guard reappeared
at the door to the corridor and told them that the lights would
be turned out in two minutes. |

Chaplain Towle stood up uneasily. “Is there anything else
I can do tonight?” |

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It was, however, a disturbing visit for the two chaplains be-

cause they could not fully share in the prisoners’ enthusiasm;
in fact, they could only pretend to take any part in it. Both
of them knew that the date had already been set for the execu-
tions of the five defendants in the Beyer case and the two in the
Gauss case and that even as they talked, Lieutenant Colonel
Raymond Orr was already putting the final touches to the spe-
cial gallows that he was constructing for the occasion. ,

Two days later, on July 8, their secret was no longer a
secret. Colonel Eley, flanked by both chaplains, entered
the corridor in death row and informed first Walter Beyer
and then Berthold Seidel, Hans Demme, Willi Scholz, and
Hans Schomer that the execution of their sentences would
be carried out at midnight the following evening. Then
Colonel Eley left the two chaplains to salvage whatever
peace of mind they could for the prisoners in the awful
gloom of that block of cells.

The following night no one was able to sleep in death

row. The lights burned there until the last of the five were.

led out at somewhere around four o’clock in the morning.
The other nine prisoners watched with quiet despair and a
vitriolic sense of injustice, but there was nothing they
could say, even to each other, and they finally went to
sleep after the sun had risen in the very early hours of the
morning of July 10,1945. ,

When Colonel Eley and the chaplains arrived again two days
later, there was no wonder as to the reason for. their visit.
Erich Gauss and Rudolf Straub listened and silently accepted
the information that they would be hanged the next evening.
And so, on the morning of July 14, all that’remained of the

‘fifteen German prisoners of war condemned to death were
_ Helmut Fischer and his six companions.

Their case was still unresolved. No word had come from
Washington, and they were left with only the conflicting moods

Execution 263

of hope because of Menschner’s reprieve and despair because
of the execution of the seven defendants in the Beyer and Gauss

-cases. As the days passed, they slowly sank back into the

normal routine. Chaplain Towle continued to visit them each
day; they talked candidly and at length about their own lives

and what they would do if they ever got out of their predica-

ment. And they waited sullenly for the news of their fate, which
appeared, as time went on, would never be ATCO,

Stengel often said laughingly to the chaplain: “You don’t think
they’ve forgotten about us, do you?”

But they were far from being forgotten.

The evening of August 23 was a typical stifling hot Kansas
night. Some of the prisoners were dressed only in their shorts
and T-shirts and all of them were barefoot. Fischer and Fritz
Franke were talking between the bars that separated their two
cells; Guenther Kuelsen was writing a letter; Ludwig and Reyak
were playing checkers; Otto Stengel was working on a drawing
of the face of Christ that he had started several days earlier;
and Rolf Wizuy was simply lying on his bunk staring up at
the ceiling. It was 9:25 p.m., thirty-five minutes before the
lights were scheduled to go out.

All seven of the prisoners heard the clatter of heavy, fast-
stepping footsteps before anyone appeared at the barred
door to the corridor,-and they all. paused in what they were
doing to look toward the door. Even \Vizuy pushed himself
up on one elbow to see who was_coming at that hour of
the night...A guard\swung the door open and in marched.
Colonel Eley, followed by two other officers and the two

chaplains. The guard who had opened the door called the

prisoners to attention, and the sever) men moved quickly
to that position, each standing by his bunk. Colonel Eley
moved just beyond Helmut Fischer’s cell, almost directly
in front of Fritz Franke, and the other officers formed a
compact little group behind him. Colonel Eley had several

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papers in his hand, but he looked up and down the line of
cells at the men standing rigidly in each. Then he looked
down at the top sheet of paper and began to read.

“General Court Martial Orders Number 406: Charge:
violation of the 92nd Article of War. Specification: In that
Prisoner of War Helmut Fischer, Prisoner of War Fritz
Franke, | Prisoner of War Guenther Kuelsen, Prisoner of
War Heinrich Ludwig, Prisoner of War Bernhard Reyak
Prisoner of War Otto Stengel, and Prisoner of War Rolf
Wizuy, all of Prisoner of War Processing Station, Angel
Island, California, acting jointly and in pursuance of
common intent, did, at Prisoner of \War Camp, Papago
Park, Phoenix, Arizona, on or about March 12, 1944
with malice aforethought, willfully, deliberately, felon:
ously, unlawfully, and with premeditation kill one Pris-
oner of War Werner Drechsler,. a human being, by
strangulation.

“Please to the specification and charge by each accused: Not
guilty. _

“Findings of the specification and charge as to each accused:
Guilty.

“Sentence as to each accused: To be hanged by the neck
until dead.”

Colonel Eley paused and shuffled the papers in his hand,

placing the one he had just finished under the others, and
then continued.

“The sentence having been approved by the reviewing
authority, the record of trial forwarded for the action of
the President, and the record of trial having been examined
by the Board of Review in the Judge Advocate General’s
office; and the Board of Review having submitted its opinion

* in writing to the Judge Advocate General, and the record

of trial, the opinion of the Board of Review, and the re-
commendations of the Judge Advocate General having been
transmitted directly to the Secretary of War for the action
of the Président, and having been laid before the President
the following are his orders thereon:

Execution 265

“In the foregoing case of German Prisoner of War Helmut
Fischer, Fritz Franke, Guenther Kuelsen, Heinrich Ludwig,
Bernhard Reyak, Otto-Stengel, and Rolf Wizuy, the sentence
of each accused is confirmed and will be carried into execu-
tion under the direction of, and at a time and place to be

designated by the Commandant, United States Disciplinary
Barracks; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.”.

Colonel Eley looked up from the paper, his eyts again
wandering down the line of cells, and then he added:

“The orders signed by the President of the United States and
issued by the Secretary of War will be carried out here August
25, 1945, commencing at zero zero zero one hours of that
date.”

Colonel Eley did an abrupt about-face and walked swiftly
back down the corridor and out of the cell block. His entou-
rage, with the exception of the two chaplains, followed close
at his heels, and as the barred door closed behind them the
guard shouted, “At ease.” But the prisoners had already
sunk into that position. :

Chaplain Towle had the guard unlock the cell doors so
that the men could gather in the corridor with him and
Chaplain Sagar. The men walked slowly out into the
corridor; some of them did not even bother to bring their

chairs along. Kuelsen sat back on his bunk and picked
up the letter he had been writing, then crumpled it into a
ball and threw it on the floor of his cell

Otto Stengel was the first to speak: “The bastards, the
rotten goddamned bastards,” he said, addressing the whole
group. “Why the fuck are they doing this? They don’t
understand, not at all. I thought after all this time, they’d
understand.” But then his voice began to crack and he
stopped.

Rolf \Wizuy, who was standing next to Stengel near the
table looked over at him and with a surprising degree of
calmness said: “It doesn’t matter any morc, Otto. It’s all

over.”
“They’re still bastards,” Ludwig intoned. “Whether it’s all

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directly at the chaplain. “It’s wrong, you know. What they’re
doing to us is wrong.” He paused and looked around the cor-
ridor. “You will be here tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow, of course.”

“Early?”

“If you’d like, yes, early.”

Chaplain Towle, looking at the others, said, “Good night
now,” and then turned and left the corridor. The seven men
went back into their cells and shortly after the guard had
locked them in, the lights went out.

The prisoners were roused at 5:30 the next morning, but
most of them were already awake in their cots. They .were
served a breakfast of French toast, bacon, cereal, an
orange, and coffee. Surprisingly they were all very hungry.
Chaplain Towle arrived shortly after eight o’clock, and
though the cell doors were opened, not all the prisoners left
their cells. Some were writing letters, trying to communicate
to their families some form of hope despite the fact that all
of theirs was now gone. Guenther Kuelsen wrote with this
in mind.

In prison
August 24, 1945

Dear Parents, Grandparents, Lilo, Erich, Friends,

With these lines, I would like to take leave of you all, and
would like to, at the same time, thank you for all the good
things you have done for me. Fate, unfortunately, does not
want that I should see whole what I have left whole. With the
expiration of this day, I will depart from this world, and enter
the great army. Just you stay strong, endure, and be united.
Germany will live, even if we have to die. I was prepared for my
sentence, and took it easily, as you all know me. It just isn’t
a “soldier’s death,” but one has to yield. I will also overcome that
in the belief in my Fatherland. God help me.

Now with what I personally have, there is not much to settle;
the money that may still be in my account, you will be able to

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use. You will probably also receive all other belongings. Stay \,
healthy and lively—heads up. This wishes you as I take leave

your son, grandchild, brother, friend,
Guenther

When he finished the letter, Kuelsen joined some of the
others in the corridor. Fischer and Stengel were still in their
cells writing letters. Chaplain Towle talked to the men in
the corridor for awhile and then walked into Fischer’s cell.
“Can I help you with the letter at all?”

Fischer looked up. “No, I’m almost through,” he said,
and then ignored the chaplain.

Chaplain Towle could sense almost immediately that through
the night, much of the bittterness that Fischer had felt over the
last months had come back. It may have been from the expres-
sion on his face or the curtness of his words and movements,
but whatever it was, it was there. The chaplain sat on Fischer’s
bunk while he was finishing the letter. Fischer finally folded up
the self-mailing piece of POW stationery and tossed it onto the
bunk next to the chaplain.

“There’s really not much you can say, is there?” he asked,

nodding toward the letter.
“I don’t know; I think there’s probably a lot you could say

if you wanted to.”
“I don’t want to tell my family everything I feel. It’s hard

enough on them. I don’t want to make it worse. But I feel
now Otto was right last night.”

Fischer and the chaplain talked for quite some time, and in
the course of their conversation the question of religion finally
came up. Fischer repeated his feeling that he had been deserted
by God:and religion. Some of the others gathered at the door
to Fischer’s cell and joined the conversation to express feelings
very similar to Fischer’s. .

At 11:30 the men had lunch. Chaplain Towle stayed with
them and asked to have some food brought down so that


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Nave lasted 5 to 10 minutes. I

“thought she was going to die.”
mar N postcard, Beyer recalled in a
telephone interview, was cryptic:
“Mit was dated Aug. 2, 1946, and gave
tno details except for the fact and
date of death. Eventually, it. was
“followed by a death certificate and
‘a note from the Red Cross stating
' “no further information was availa-
ble.

» For more than 20 years Mrs.
‘Beyer shared her secret with no
sone, and it was not: until Edgar
:Beyer was about to marry that she
egat him down and told him his
-father had been executed and was
buried in a criminal’s grave.

“Tt was a complete shock,” Beyer
-said. “I couldn’t believe ig
;, Nine years ago an aunt gave
‘Edgar Beyer the equivalent of
-$4,000 for a trip to the United

_ States on the condition that he visit »

all the family’s relatives as well as
chis father’s grave. He flew alone
from New Orleans to Kansas City,
drove to Ft. Leavenworth and met
an Army officer who told him
where the convicts’ cemetery was.
The gate was locked, so he climbed
the chain-link fence and found his
‘father’s grave, the first one in the
-row of 14. The last time he had
seen his father was Christmas Day,
1941.
;. From,time to time, German and
, American military authorities have
: suggested that perhaps the prison-
ers’ remains should be returned to

lie in a German war cemetery. But.

while Germany was divided, the
West Germany Embassy in Wash-
ington preferred that the matter
not be raised at all, fearing that
East. Germany would use it to
cause a rift in the Washington-
Bonn alliance.

None of the victims’ families has
tried to claim the bodies. Even
Edgar Beyer isn’t sure repatriation
of the bodies is a good idea. “¥@
need time to think about that,” he
says.

So, Ken Knox in Sacramento
keeps poring over his stacks of
documents, calling newspapers and

TV stations, hoping that someone

will share his interest in righting
the injustice he perceives. “There
was some interest in first,” he says,
“but it died pretty quickly. What
have I achieved in 10 years? Noth-
ing, really. Just frustration. I guess
I’ve reached my limit. I would need
someone with more education and
experience than I’ve got to get this
done.”

Ao autumn wind whipped
across the cemetery on Ft.
Leavenworth’s Hancock Hill one
recent Sunday afternoon, murmur-
ing through the leafless trees. It
was Nov. 18, a day the Germans
call Volkstravertag—People’s Re-
membrance Day—and from the
road five German soldiers wearing
gray jackets, leather gloves and
maroon berets approached the row

of 14 tombstones, carrying a
wreath of carnations.

Col. Michael Hueber, a 27-year
veteran and the son, of a World
War II paratrooper, came first,

‘remembering on this day of memo-

ries the Allied air strike on his
home in Kreuzuach that had killed
his mother, his’ grandparents, an
aunt anda nephew. With him, in
military step, were four other Ger-

‘mans who are attached to the US.

Army’s Command General Staff

“ college here...

They placed the wreath between
the tombstones of* Pvt. Rudolf
Sraub, the 39-year-old pattern
cutter, and Pvt. Helmut Fisher, a
22-year-old high school dropout.
“We stand here,” Hueber said,
head bowed, “in front of the graves
of young. soldiers who died in
meeting their given missions. They
were just soldiers like you and me.

“They died harder than their
colleagues in combat because they
realized that, in the end, they
would die. But they died so that we
could live in freedom, so that
Germany could finally end 60 years.
of dictatorship. That is why the
people of Germany pay them their
respects today.” »

Then with a salute, the Germans
were gone, their steps rustling
through the ground cover of dead
leaves, and in the coming darkness
the wreath and the 14 headstones
were hardly visible at all.

Staff writer Tyler Marshall in Berlin
also contributed to this article.


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By DAVID LAMB won the war, they’d have been '

TIMES STAFF WRITER

EAVENWORTH, Kan:—
There are no women or
children buried in the little
hilltop cemetery overlooking
the Missouri River, only mili-
tary convicts, about 240 of them,
their souls forever tainted by
some dishonorable deed that
made this Godforsaken place
their final outpost.
_ Unlike the pristine national
cemetery half a mile away, this
place attracts few visitors; no
flowers are laid on the un-
blessed ground. The small
tombstones bear nothing more
than a name and a date of
death—but that, 10 years ago, is
what caught the attention of
Army Sgt. Ken Knox, a correc-
tions officers at the Disciplinary
Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth,
and began his obsession with

~Prisoners of Silence.

In a Small Kansas Cemetery, the Graves of 14 German POWs
Represent One of the Last Untold Stories of World War II

one of the last untold stories of
World War II.

“Come here. Look at this,”
Knox said to his wife, Dianne,
while biking around the post
one Sunday.

Off to one side, separated
from the other graves, were 14
tombstones, each with a Ger-

man name, half inscribed with -

the same date, Aug. 25, 1945.
Knox’s first thought was that
they must have died in a bus
accident, but he soon learned
that he had stumbled onto the
graves of the only prisoners of

war ever executed in the United
States, and, delving through ar-
chives and libraries, he found
that many troubling ethical
questions still. remained over
the circumstances of. their
hanging.

From his second-floor office,
he would look down on the
prison courtyard and imagine
Walter Beyer and Otto Stengel
and the dozen other German
sailors and soldiers, handcuffed,
each escorted by an eight-man
guard, walking to the makeshift
gallows the fort had set up in

the elevator shaft of an old
warehouse. He could almost
hear the Episcopal chaplain,
John Sagar, reciting Psalm“130,
the litany for the dying: “Out of

. the deep I have called unto thee,

O Lord. Lord, hear my
voice... .”

“I’m not contesting their
guilt, only the injustice,” says
Knox, who now lives in Sacra-
mento.

“These guys just don’t belong
in that cemetery. They were
honorable military men and,
right or wrong, if Germany had

given a medal. They ought to be
reinterred in Germany, in a
place of respect. That’s all I’m
trying to accomplish. Besides,
they were executed after the
war was over, and that raises a
lot of questions over whether
they were the victims of a
society’s desire for revenge
against all Germans.”

The 14 condemned men—one
of whom was a grocer in civilian °
life, one a pattern cutter, anoth- ~
er an engineer—were among
400,000 Germans held prisoner’
during World War II at 500
camps scattered across the
United States. The German
prisoners worked in the wheat
fields of Kansas, stuffed olives
with Spanish peppers in Texas,
repaired Army vehicles in Vir-
ginia, sewed U.S. Army uni-
forms in Maryland, picked peas

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‘found that many troubling emnieal.

questions still remain over the. cir-

- cumstances of their hanging.
From his second-floor office, he.

- would look down on the prison court-

yard and imagine Walter Beyer and
Otto Stengel and the dozen other..
Germans, handcuffed, walking to the -
‘makeshift gallows the fort had set up -
“in the elevator shaft of an old: ware-
“house.

“I’m not contesting their guilt only .
- the injustice, ” says Knox, who now

“Thése’ guys just don’t belong: in.
that cemetery.. They were honorable :
military men.and, right or wrong, if;
-Germany: had. won. the war, they’
‘have been given a medal. They ough
‘to’ be: reinterred «in. ‘Germany, in:
- place of respect. That’ Ss all Tm trying
- to accomplish. ° ve,

“Besides, they were sstecuted after:
. the war was over, and that raises‘a lot’,
of questions over whether they were.
the victims of a society’s desire for

~ revenge against all Germans.”

_-The 14 condemned’ men = one ‘of.
“whom. was. a grocer:.in civilian. life,”
one a pattern cutter, ‘another an engi’
“neer — .were among 400, 000:.Ger- :
mans held prisoner during World:
War II at .500 camps ile Mil across
_the United States. :

U.S. intelligence’ officers’ “worked”

hard to recruit “snitches” among the’
newly arrived prisoners.

The. information they, gathered.’
~ proved invaluable to the Allied war:
_effort::One snitch, Johannes’ Kunze,
"passed on details of the camouflag-.
ing of Hamburg intended to: mislead. :
- British bomber pilots .—,.the roof of »
' the train station had been painted | to:
resemble a highway.

man _prisoners':at Camp. Gruber in.’
’-Tonkowa, Okla., Walter Beyer; a 30--.:
. year-old first: sergeant captured in.
North Africa, ordered his company to:
“assemble in the’mess:hall.. Johannes —
Kunze was one of the last to enter.

. White-faced. and perspiring, jhe took -
”-aseat at a table by the door..
~. Beyer held up two notes in identi-.:

_cal handwriting — one unsigned,
‘ containing.a brief description of :
Hamburg’s camouflaging, the other a:
letter, signéd by Kunze, to.his wife.

“Comrades,” said Beyer, whose *

wife and 2-year-old. son, Edgar, lived.

in Hamburg. “I am’sorry and it hurts :

me in my soul to be forced to tell you

some. sad news, and the case is so :
‘grave that I am. not in a position to
“pass judgment. myself. Bad as it may
‘seem, we have a traitor in our midst.”.
Beyer had-hardly finished before

someone shouted, “That’s him! Don’t: _

let him get. out!” and a score of men
pounced on Kunze, who struggled
wildly to escape. He died a short.
while later of ‘a fractured skull and -:
_cerebral hemorrhaging. Beyer, court °
testimony later disclosed, did not

_ participate in the beating. ou

During the next five months, three
‘other informers were murdered: in
unrelated incidents at POW camps in
Florence, Ariz.; Camp Chaffee, ieee
and Aiken, S.C."

"The killings led to lengthy investi-
_ gations — one of the suspects, Otto’
Stengel, confessed only after being -
“forced to wear a gas mask stuffed’
with onions and garlic —. and eventu- ©
“ally 14 Germans were sent off to Fort.
 teaveawan to be epee a after ale

- ment assigned, part time, L
' fred Petsch, who described’ himself

OR.

“spite the recommendation. of a Te-
- view board that the sentences be

“here,”

ing’ convieted in: four separate
courts-martial,;.*';"
The Germans ‘defense was based

on the: argument that ‘their, victims.

“were traitors against t their homeland..
« Each contended that he had acted _
as would i any. conscientious soldier. ,
“I am no murderer,” the grocer,

. Sgt: Erich Gauss, 32, told the court. T
merely fought for the honor ofimy fa-

therland and for respect as a soldier.”
To defend Beyer and the others ac-

“cused ‘of killing: Kurize, the govern- °

ol. Al

“as a country lawyer and fa’

fa
who told a review ‘board that he had"

. “practically ino experience in. matters,
of this’sort.” The prosecutor was one
of the Army's most ‘respected law: .
ye ‘ eon Jaworski, the’
‘eventual. Watergate specs) Prosecu-

‘The Germans, lingered on death -
row. in Fort, Leavenworth for a year.
During’ that time, 15 of the 90,000
Americans being held prisoner on
German soil were also sentenced to;
-death, and Wastenzion and Bertin.
-began. negotiating 0 on a prisoner ex-

", change. Both sides agreed not to exe-
“Cute anyone until the Hepotiations.

“in. Eutope ended ©

A - with the German surrender, the 15..

- Americans Sentenced to death were
returned to the Allied command, and

‘President Harry S. Truman’ signed

‘the Germans’ death warrants, de-.
commuted to life imprisonment.»
their military uniforms. Sgt. Walter

. Beyery was the first to be hanged.
*T'can still’ remember. the moment

'.Mother found: out, my father was

“ dead,” said Beyer’s only child, Edgar, .

; 49, the assistant manager of a.Ham-
burg bank. “I, was - ‘5 years old. She

-was cooking. ... when it came, a sim-

_ple, open post card. She read it and

started to shake. She let. out a wail-
that I will never forget. :

None’ of the victims’ families has
tried to claim the bodies. Even Edgar :

" Beyer isn’t sure repaffiation of the

bodies is'a good idea. “I’d.need time
to think about that,” he says.
A cold autumn wind whipped -

a the ‘cemetery on, Fort Leaven-

worth’s Hancock Hill one recent

. Sunday afternoon. It was.Nov. 18, a

day the Germans call -Volkstravertag
—.People’s Remembrance Day’ —

“sand from the road five German sol-

diers wearing gray jackets, leather
gloves and maroon berets ap-
‘proached. the row of 14 tombstones,

2 carrying a wreath of carnations.

‘They, placed’the wreath between
‘ the tombstones of Pvt. Rudolf Sraub,
_ the “39-year-old pattern cutter, and_
Pvt..Helmut Fisher, a 22-year-old ~
high school dropout. “We. stand
Col. Michael Hueber said,
head bowed, “in front of the j graves of

young soldiers who died in ‘meeting

their given missions.. They were just
‘soldiers like you and me.’

Then: with a salute, the Germans
‘were gone, their steps rustling.
through. the ground cover of dead —
leaves, and in'the coming darkness
the wreath and’ the 14 headstones
were hardly visible at all.

pJust’ ‘past: ‘midnight, July.10, the

- first batch of five Germans prisoners -
were taken‘from their.cells after_a fi-
‘nal meal: At their request, all wore ..
On Nov, 4, 1943, one of the Gere" i

{ kenneth Knox: Collected t ionsendé of } pages ‘of documents. ings
efforts to satisfy his curiosity about the 14 German prisoner
war executed by the United States after. the: end of World Wai
Now he wants to: ght what ale considers an Hope as

Continued font p e Al

B
‘near. Calvine and, Elk Grove- vane

roads.

-“T have just ‘ben flat inundated —
‘with calls,” said:the 42-year-old

Knox, who retired 242 years ago from
a 22-year Army career and.who now
works as a sandblaster at the Sacra-
aEUD Army Depot.®:

“’ve had the executive producer of |

‘Entertainment Tonight’ call me, two

producers who claim they’re with: :

Warner Brothers and three indepen-

dents call me. They, all want to make

a movie out of it,

One guy wanted

to fly up immediately and sign acon- °

tract.”

Knox said he was: in the process of
retaining an attorney to help him
wade through the. high seas of inter-

est his work has stirred up. And, he |
said, he never dreamed where what :

_ started as mild curiosity about the
“same dates of death appearing on

some of the German POW grave-:

stones would lead,
The first step. after finding the

headstones, he said,:was-to the local.

newspaper archives. From there, it
was on to the Harry S.. Truman li-
brary in nearby Independence, Mo.,
“and. then on to years of treading
down a paper trail that stretched
from Germany to Washington, D.C.
His research:'turned up the trou-

pny — the ae lawyer had —

* SHetetmnenbs Bea

court-martial before; the touchin,

. entirely understand himself.

Bee/Lois Bern

never oiactined petore ‘a crim

the last request. of one of the Ger
mans was to be buried with.a pict

: of the son he never saw; and the trag-

{roe

ic — an American officer callously

removed the oe ie befon
burial. « a

A

family, was decorated for seq
during: the Vietnam War.. He We.
serving as a guard commander a

. Fort Leavenworth military ptisotea
. the time his‘quest began, has coBge
-ed more than 4,000 pages of ig

ments on the subject and is, ind
throes of putting together a bogky

He has also battled. with. tryir
explain an avocation that he dg
on

“I-never had a specific goal atte
than curiosity about this,” Be
“There were a lot of times I ae
myself why I was doing it.” jc:d*

In the end, Knox said, it’s egm
down to righting a wrong, and tryin
to prevent a similar Wrens from hay
pening again. i" ad

~ “I’m not trying to show there ‘We
any type of conspiracy,” he said" ay;
just trying to show the  injustite
done to these young men. ... Frmss.
ing to help prevent it from ®
‘ being 14 young Americans eng bs
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6 MARTIAL JUSTICE

no action had yet been taken by the President, even though

they had been convicted and sentenced almost a year earlier.
In addition, the reviewing authority of their case had recom-
mended commutation to life imprisonment.

For the moment, however, Colonel Eley and Colonel Orr
were concerned only with expediting the orders at hand—not

- with the actual prisoners —and that required the immediate con-

struction of a set of gallows that could effectively accommodate
at least five and perhaps later seven consecutive hangings in
one evening.

Colonel Eley foresaw certain problems in the situation
that confronted them. First, now that the orders were signed,
the executions would have to be carried out as quickly as
possible. All courses of appeal had been exhausted, and it
was necessary to play out the final scene with as little delay
as was humanly possible. However, Colonel Eley could not
set the date until the gallows were erected and tested, a point
that was made very clear to Colonel Orr.

Second, Colonel Eley was convinced that it would not be
wise or convenient to use the central detention building as the
gallows site. The German prisoners of war housed there were
already very anxious, and he did not want to agitate the
situation. In all, there were 120 German and 18 Italian
POWs incarcerated at the disciplinary barracks, and Colonel
Eley knew the tensions that ran through his overcrowded
prison.

Third, while there would be no way to hide the executions,
at the same time there was no need to make a spectacle of
them. Therefore, another requirement was that the gallows
be p&rtable, so that they could be constructed shortly before
the’ execution and then torn down immediately afterward.

Colonel Orr duly noted all of the stipulations, and then as-
sured Colonel Eley that he would handle the mission as im-
mediately and efficiently as possible. He left the commandant,

went back to his own office, and called in the three civilian en-

Fort Leavenworth 7

gineers who worked for the disciplinary barracks. Together
they quickly worked out a plan that they felt was feasible. Blue-
prints were drawn up and the proposal typed for Colonel
Eley’s approval. :

Meanwhile, the public information office at Fort Leaven-
worth was advised of the, pending executions, and it was to
notify the press and handle any publicity in regard to this
grim bit of newsmaking. It was hardly the type of thing
that the USDB would want to solicit much publicity for.

The site that had been selected was an old salvage warehouse, :
inconspicuously located about 250 yards from the central de-
tention building. A few things would have to be requisitioned,
but Colonel Orr’s engineering task was actually more a matter
of conversion than construction.

Within two days the gallows were operable. Colonel Eley
walked across the prison yard to inspect the finished product
with Colonel Orr and the three civilian engineers. Colonel Orr
had arranged a test to expose dramatically its potential, using
a stuffed and weighted dummy, so that Colonel Eley could in
good faith get on with his orders from Washington. The demon-
stration was brief, but it was enough to reassure the comman-
dant that Colonel Orr and his engineers had successfully carried
out their mission. The gallows were icily efficient.

The best description of Colonel Orr’s creation was set forth
in a news release put out by the Fort Leavenworth Public Infor-
mation Office. Why the release was written has been lost some-
where in the intervening years, but the release itself has been
preserved in its entirety. Its militarily precise wording relates
in transparent detail the construction of the gallows and how
they would be operated. °

INFORMATION ON THE CONSTRUCTION
AND OPERATION OF THE GALLOWS

The United States Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth was
confronted with the problem of devising a set of gallows on which


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41.
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Whitfield

Sanders
Anderson
Downes
Scott
Pennyfeather
Skinner
McGann
Wimberly
Watson
Jordon
Davis
Davison
Agee
Watson
Smith
Valentine
Newman
Cooper
Wilson

Farrell

293083
285969
285969
285325
291138
290137
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289263
290540
290540
286559
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287135

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287315

287315

287783

287783
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286064

14 Aug 1944
25 Oct 1944
25 Oct 1944
28 Feb 1945
18 Nov 1944
18 Nov 1944
10 Feb 1945
20 Nov 1944

8/9 Nov 1944

8/9 Nov 1944

22 Nov 1944
22 Nov 1944
29 Mar 1945
3 Mar 1945
3 Mar 1945
3 Mar 1945
29 Nov 1944
29 Nov 1944
? Jan 1945

2 Feb 1944

19 Jan 1945


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Murder Rape Murder/Rape _ Dissertion Total
England | 8 7 4 19
France 20 21 8 1 50
Belgium 2 2
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NAME RACE DOE

52. McCarter, Wm. J. B 5~28-45EAC
53. Rollins, Alvin R. B §-21-45C
5-31-45EA

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]

54. Philpot, Henry C. W 9-10-45EAC

55 «. Robinson, Charles M. B 9-28-45EAC

56. Williams, Ellsworth B 1-5-46EAC

*+ 57. Whitfield, Clarence B 8-14-44CA
| 8-14-45E

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ}

58. Sanders, James B. B 10-25-44EAC
59. Anderson, Roy W. B 10-25-44EAC
60. Downes, Wm. C. B 2-28-45EAC
61. Scott, Richard B. B 11-18-44EAC
62. Thomas, Madison B 10-12-44EAC
63. Pennyfeather, Wm D. B 11-18-44EAC
64. Skinner, Robert L. B 2-10-45BAC
65. McGann, bhét on, W. W 11-20-44EAC
66. Martinez, Aniceto (a) 6-15-45BEAC
67. Wimberly, Willie Jr. B 11-9-44AC
11-8-44E

(NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]

68. Watson, Joseph B 11-9-44AC
11-8-44E

(NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]
69. Jordan, Charles H. B 11-22-44EAC

70. Davis, Arthur E. B 11-22-44EAC


Executed WW II Solders:ETO
Qctober 17, 1942 - January 5S, 19464
Table I

Executions by Race

wens enee tnnan Stems Sentn tees Senne Nene NODE UERME whemr Stnet BinEE Hetem enehe Muted GtnNR REGED Sate GuneH tuner COEaD MORNE HOeue mEENS SOEUR Gown NEnGS Shuen SemAG WEEE Lente GRINS HEE Rann eOrEY Hanae Rane Hones vanes BpRES mennd HOnEn Boon ares

Race N. Percentage

Black/

Latina 38 39%

White 12 8%

Unknawn 76 S27

Native

American 1 1%
TOTAL. 147 LOO%

1, As far as has been determined at the time of this
writing, these are the dates of the first and last executions of
U.S. Seldiers for offenses committed during World War II.

C by J. Robert Lilly, October 1992.


Table IIT

Executions by Year and Race:ETO

Race 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 N
Black/ _ 2 14% 23 06-54, 37 36% 1 100% 59
Latina
White ~ 1 7% 4 10% 7 B% _ 12
Unknawn, 2 100% 11 79% 15 36% 49 55% _ 76
Native

American _ ~ ~ 1 100% _ 1
Total N 2? 100% 14 100% 42 100% 988 100% 1 100% 147

Table IV

Executions by Race and Year: ETO

Black Native

Latino White Unknown American _ Total
Year:
1942 ~ _ 2 Gh - 2
13943 2 2, 1 8% 11 14% - 14
1944 23 40% 4 33% 15 20% ~ 42
1945 32 S54 7 SB% 49 637% 1 100% 88
1946 1 2% “ 7 oe

]
Total 58 100% 12 100% 76 100% 1 100% 147
3

C by J. Robert Lilly, Northern Kentucky University, October 1992.

PLOT E

OISE-AISNE CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL

Name

AGEE, Amos
ANDERSON, Roy W.

BAILEY, Milbert
BALDWIN, Walter J.
BENNERMAN, Sidney Jr.
BRINSON, Eliga
BURNS, Lee A.

CLARK, Ernest L.
CLAY, Mathew Jr.
COOPER, John D.
CREWS, Otis B.

DAVIS, Arthur E.
DAVIS, Lee A.
DAVIS, William E.
DAVISON, Tommie
DONNELY, Robert L.
DOWNES, William Cc.

ERVIN. Charlie Jr.
FARELL, Arthur J.

GORDON, Tom

GRANT, General L.
GREEN, George Jr.
GUERRA, Augustine M.

HALL, Willie

HARRIS, Wiley Jr.
HARRISON, William Jr.
HEARD, Haze
HENDRICKS, James
HOLDEN, Mervin
HOPPER, Benjamin F.

JEFFERIES, Charles H.
JOHNSON, WILLIE
JONES, Cubia

JONES, James L.
JONES, John T.

JONES, Kinney
JORDAN, Charlie H.

Serial Number

34163762
35407199

34151488
34020111
34174757
34052175
38520648

33212946
38490561
34562464
14057830

36788637
18023362
33541888
34485174
13131982
33519814

3402926

32559163

34091950
34557976
38476751
38458023

33268841
6924547

15089828
34562354
33453189
38226564
32720571

33181343
38270465
34563790
34221343
38315973
34120505
14066430


NAME

144.
145.
146.
147.
148.
149.
150.

i151.

152

L53.
154.
Lots

18s

Boston,

Perry,

Hendricks,

Thomas,

- Richie,
Pearson,

Beshense,

Jesse D.
Herman

William

Davis, William E.

Baldwin, Walter J.

?

?

Fs

?

Thomas

James E.

RACE DOE

8-1-45EC

3-15-45EC

B 2-15-45EA
B 11-24-44EA
B 12-27-44EA
B 1-17-45EA
4-16-458

4-16-45F

4-21-45E

3-20-45E

7-5-45E

7-5-45E

B 1-31-44E

["O


ayo ws ‘ ty 98 te gl ENC! Ab we

ENDNOTES

Source is Appendix 83
Date of Execution
Espy list.
Appendix 83.
Army's Office of the Clerk of Court. Washingtonc D.C.
Place of execution.
E = England
F = France

B = Belgium

10


Pie

NAME

1293

130.

131.

132.

133i
134.
133,
136.
137.

138.

139.

140.

141.
142.

143.

RACE DO E
Horn, Charles A. 9-2-44C Y
10-2-44E
(NOTE: see above]
Washington, Eugene A. Jr. 9-2-44C Y
10-2-44E

(NOTE: see above]

11-19-44¢C Y
11-20-44E

Ferandez, Avelino

(NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]

11-4-42E

Leonski, Edward J.

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]
Hawthorne, Samuel 1-29-45EC Y
Baker, Hatity . 3-18-45EC Y
Crabtree, Harold 7-31-45EC yY
McCloud, Ellis 8-20-45EC Y
Walters, Bradley Jr. 8-31-45EC Y

Williams, Albert 8-28-45C Y
(Williams, ] 10-28-45E

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]

Nichols, Harvey W. 8-28-45C Y
10-28-45E

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ

Thomas, James C. 9=275-45C Y
(Thomas, ] 9-25-46E

[NOTE: CM #'s same; dates differ]
Louis, ? 0-15-45EC Y
11-9-45EC Y

Lee, Dan J.

Harris, Ernest J. 8-9-4A5EC Y

Ir

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NAME

iL.

oy

Oe

(24.

25.

26.
27.

28.

wos

30.

a

32.

Brandon, Levi

(NOTE: CM #'s same;

Reichel, Edward J.

(NOTE: CM #'s same;

Davidson, Robert

(NOTE: CM #'s same;
Hurse, Fred

O'Connor, John R.

(NOTE: CM #'s same;
Davis, Sylvesta
Williams, Charlie B.

Jones, Curn L.

(NOTE: CM #'s same;
Boswell, Dan (?)

Davis, Lee R.
Davis, ?

[NOTE: Cm #'s same;

Stevenson, Clinton

RACE

dates

dates

dates

dates

dates

dates

DOE

1T=265743C
6-26-43E

differ]

§=-2Z2~45C
§8=2-45E

differ]

8-6-45C
1=-5~45E

differ]
9=20=45EC

L=29=495C
1-15-45E

differ]
L=5-45EC
12-18-44EC

4-10-45C
3-19-45E

differ]
4-16-45EC

8-14-45C
8-10-45E

differ]

8-14-45C
? ?-45E

NOTE: CM #'s same; dates incomplete]

Reid, Herbert V.

 [NOTR: CM #'s same;

dates

8-14-45C
8-4-45E

differ]

|

IQ

90.

91.

288129
288384
288505
288535
288642
288642

288670
(MTO 5913)

288771

289035
(MTO 6640)

289035
(MTO 6640)

289042
(MTO 6658)

289052
(MTO 6658)

289127
(MTO 5917

289141
289141

289257
(MTO-6525)

289263
289355
289454
289745
289785
289917

289955

Hendricks, James E. ~// PFC
Johnson, Wille UZ

Kluxdale, Paul M. /& PFC
McCarter, William J.ul PFC
McMurray, Fred A. //

Till, Louis 7/Z

Mack (Mock ?), John H. //Z

Mack, William (/Z

Nelson, Henry W.
Jones, John T.
Jeffries, Charles H.

Jeffries, Charles H.

Jones, Kinney PFC
Pearson, Robert L. Cpl
Jones, Cubia Pvt
McGhee, Shelton, Sr. Cpl

McGann, Theron W.

Smith, George E. Pvt
Skinner, Robert L.

Norris, Clete O. Sgt
Ortiz, Victor

Pygate, Benjamin

Smith, George E., Jr. Pvt

5


83.

286135
286135

286303
(MTO)

286393
288303
286478
286482
286559
286599
286910
286911
287064
287064
287135
287315
287315
287315

287413

(A-1683)

287605

287617

(MTO 6040)

287773

287773

287783

287783

288114

Jones, James L. U/

Williams, John UZ

Crews, Otis B. NL

Clay, Matthews, Jr. ///
Crews, Otis B. UZ

Curry, William T. VL

Clark, Ernest Lee “%“ Cpl

Jordan, Charles H. YZ

‘Davis, Arthur E. Ud

Gordon, Tom E. Ut.

Guerra, Agustine M. /“L
Cooper, John David
Wilson, J.P.

Davison, Tommie

Agee, Amos

Watson, Frank

Smith, John C.

Baldwin, Walter J.

Green, George, Jr.

Grant, General L. PFC

Holden, Mervin

Spencer, Elwood, Jr.
Valentine, Leo Sr.
Newman, Oscar N.
Hopper, Benjamin F. //L

4


135b.295412
136. 295486
(MTO 7187)

137. 295536
(MTO 7613)

138. 296038
139. 296582
140. 298666

300615

7142. 301544

143. 302743

144. 303097

145. 303439

po 300% 146. 306312

(147. 306769

148. 307583
(POA-379)

149. 307871
(IBT-284)

| 150. 311647
(NATO 423)

151. 3231653
(NATO 420)

152. 311662
a (NATO 422)

153. 315024

+ 154. 315055

oh 155. 323197

156. 325810

Erwin, Charles, Jr.
Spinks, Mansfield
Ervin, Charles, Jr.

Wray, Robert OL

Mariano, Blake W./) ZL
Philpot, Henry c./4
Rollins, Alvin R. PFC
Miranda, Alex F.

Harris, Wiley, Jr. UZ
Robinson, Charles M.
Williams, Ellsworth
Martinez, Aniceto
Leatherberry, J.C.

Boston, Jesse D. Jd PFC
Perry, Herman UL

Stroud, Harvey

White, David

White, Armstead

Mickles, Carlon vol, 647 BAS
Lol. 6%, 83S
Abney, William vol. 22°149 Sgt

Norman, James

Martinez, Manuel Vol 75/75 G.P.

P/ITO

129.

130.

L131,

poe

133.

134.

290137

290498
290540

290540

290546

290761

(MTO 6008)

291138

291296

291404

(MTO 6195)

291944
293083
293448

293704
(P-117)

293710
(P-106)

293712
(P-45)

293724
(P-105)

293782
(P-358)

293805
(P-457)

4293912
(P-583)

294056
(A-2099)

295324

295324

Pennyfeather, William D. Pvt /Z

Slovik, Eddie

Wimberly, Willie Jr.

Watson, Joseph
Thomas. Madison W/Z

Taylor, John W.//Z

Scott, Richard B.
Twiggs, James W.

Swalls, Abraham

Williams, Olin, W.
Whitfield, Clarence
Yancy, Walters

McCloud, Ellis

Walters, Bradley Jr.

Williams, Albert
Nicholas, Harvey W.
Thomas, James, C.
Louis, Ozell (Sp?)

Lee, Dan J.

Harris, Ernest J. VL

Parker, Woodrow

Bennerman, Sidney, Jr.

6

Pvt (/2L
T/5 UL

Pvt W/Z

T/5

PFC

P/ITO

P/ITO

P/ITO

P/ITO

P/ITO

P/ITO

P/ITO

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< BLI* albert PAE” Lifes > Lifemiet® ey iy 137 Feb: 48 eae Se
HUNSICKER, Karl Se Death (5. Dea th = tie 28 Feb gear So? eters

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=) SODENSTHIN, Julius: 7 LAfes'r as. Ife oc. oT feb, 47 a
KUBASC-MER, aa a ~ 20 yooee ce Bae years, ae 1 He) au Peete rae are

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ROTH, A fees : =e kA months 18 months. a 13 Mar 47.

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EI, Padolt - a 1 year eyo. } Years er 8 June246 - peti et

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LORIMER, ‘ormann 5 “18 months 18 onthe % 18 max, 47

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preseree Scere RIEKE et ai Trica 13 Feb 47

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See “aon, Inivig ay? “Death. 3 “Death pees “2 Var 48
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oi ste ee -HUNKE 5. Posty is 22 years <1: 2 years et 14. Nov 47
) MEYER 5, Friedrich’: “= 2 years © *_2 years’ * < 14 Nov 47
se SCREDS, Jeinrich 2 years 2 year e he eB 14 Nov 47
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Beha a REIDS! aRETOR, zetartch: “ahi bed oo te ten eer ae ee
Pe 2 SRT MPIER y Solana iife™ 7 10 years "i, .13 Feb 48
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15 July 47 Ae aa fe

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MSTUTZ, “Fritz ee . yeare: S oy ‘years Sees “g June 46. ,
OveIst, WAS fo Set year eT yearn. “8 June,.46.2259
CJEAUER, Robert ~13. hae: | ee BE OG 8 pune. Ab es :

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Gas Ho was? (us s vs Bernta ra. ‘mIOMLSEEOET et i) ‘Tri Lol 14 4 Neb 46 30h eae

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YARLSOHN,: Witholn ioe 18 months 18 months ~~ 26 Avg 47° aa
MaRX , ~idam © 6.6 months2.. 6 months ~ 26 wag 47’ - Sa poe
SOCEM aT, Franz Se ¢ emcee eee ioe Say eee heehee oe
SECSCHNEIDER, =. ‘year. i BEES che. 26 Aug ON ee See ser ae
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_ HEENE, Otto ees chequit ted sy a ne eg UR Ee 4 cop eres | ae

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SOHARDT Inde “Life” reas Ute. xe : ee oe Dee 45 § : a

; “ase Te are (0s Ys “Julius assan)_ ‘ried 10 June 47°42 = 4
“Lassaky Julius ete rite! ie Aes ‘Lite. pete ie “17 Nov ALF 7 BE Nee 4
Ruge “Case ioe de. -1880 (us vs Hans For) Tried 14 Mey 46 4
4 POEL Hans: es eS t a and ® 6 nonthe peoes 8 Tone 16 sepa , =
| “Gaso Noe. 12.1881 is. vs “isiter RIESIBERG et a) Tried 28 Jul dy Ah a 4
¥ Dips, ort Fri sarich doguttted : ee aes a | fs E sie $ if Gopi: a
Fetnrich Bradt ke Hes ae ak. ee re We he |

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W2188, rang os Dest pe Death 6 Fed 405 Gvae A
Ae eet ay < + t EN AE Ne, Hee tee Rh al a « ‘4
ee tase Ho, 1221090" (us. vs acs wise) tried ta Dee 45 4

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~Gase Soe 12-1604 {us ys Alfred HOLLER) Dried 2 sor 46 a ge eee

“FOLLER, s: “alfrodr ae 5 yesre= | “Byesre : ata 2. 46

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-as0 %o, 12 12-1298 ws 9 ve} | Konrad es As pa): tried 18 Dec 45° ee Oe et ey
“yRaHN, WHhelm : as j Mesnitted © eee BA EE End ae Eade Bie
KREMER, Konrad - 6 coos me se a3 years: : poss re ae Jan 46. poe es Srker FS

Case 2 To, 12 =1905 5 (US vs 5 Budo) AUSBUNOER et al). Tried 5 Feb 45

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“Gas0 Now 1221 re (og ve Hermann BEUSCKNER et a) tried 12 Mar 47

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- BECK, Reinhard’ “2 years * 2. years — an : 19, sue 47 (see | oS eae
“CRUMBACH, Josef oquitteda = ates es “ eres Wee cd |
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“RUBSAMEN, Panl® Age ~ Death” i Death’: vst June 47> 16 July 47 7 ee
SCHRADER, Karl 0 years. 12. yoare., “19 June 47 Sok Se ee aes
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Sues 1 Otto: : 12 years aA years oe 8. Rae é sh eee
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MINE Hoinz Frane ‘ BS Aequit ted
Herber t. as Reh ae Ges

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sOHWantZ, Iavob ae aa sonthe | 2 months 23 sor 47 sag A TS aee

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WOLTER, Judie “Lge. te “Lite ae ee) “or 487 Ae Sa

Sas0 Now 12-1960-1 (us vs Leo mura) Tred 21 ‘oct. a7

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LOWItaE, Zoo i = me Death

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DICKHAUT, Goorg ~ <- 168 months 18 months 12 June 47 ) 3 oc :
FRIEDRICH, Horman = 1 yeur°-~ - Disapproved ~.12 June 47 <" :
JakGER, Coorg (pee, 3 Years 74 3 years *<GNex 12 June. 47scet gt oe ee
KRaiT, Karl “4 18 months. 18 months RP a2 12 DUNG, 472s es tye ses ee ee ag

LISTSCHUE, Poter -.. 3 years =. >. 3 yearsini’ %. 129 June 47.05 2
LULEY, Hoinrich Peo year eto 1 year Wee -12 June AM oe
REMNEBIMER, Karl. 16 months 18 monthe .» 12 June 47 « ee gee Ps
SCHMIDT, Friedrich — 1 yearscs: 31 year 2 o35< 2 duly 47. ee
STEIN, Anna 1 Veare, Fy 1 gest > ee ee ae June a Sage a

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OTTE, Hoinrich ee ie: ‘Deaths su. SUES ie 10, Sept 47. 26 Sept 47 ee
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SG ; { ; ; igi 8 pa ehe te ase Re En o erer
-FEUBRLEI, Adolf, oc Serattted hares. ¢ Sener ae ee nas ies |
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“TOBAGE ¢ “Abort Ss coe! yeats ie i years hh Mar A423 Shoo: ech Bae

~ Caso tbs 12-1993 (US vs Otto Robert ‘PRSCHE et al) Tried 3 erat
PESCEKE, Otte ake bite a fe Tite cae ee 25 ‘og a7 eee
: 3 SREED Josef (sopp) Acquitted: St pe Gee: eet

eset Tos. 12-2000 & 12-3904 & 12-391 & aa ees & yes7e é & ‘2.1892 & 32-2127 &
12 22182 1a 3198 (US vs Jurgen STRODP et al) ? riod 51 Mar 47

ALBRECET, ithela : 15 years 15 years. . 22 Ek 49 is, a
‘Bust? Goore 374° =<. 15 years ©" 15 years). -y 28 Nov.47,.5' fee
BICHEL, Hang 2 ee. Death «-, Death, s70 4 22 Nov 47. .
-FGY, Bernard= = 5 years 8 yeard >) - 22 Nov 47 i SS |
PER, actor: ee og, Death. =. Death : 14 Jan © 7 tas oe eck ot ae
_GIBKES | Deh Hae Death. =. . Death - (2:22 Nov AlN ey ee Led
Gate SENT, jtheln aoand thet , MT Mine at) Wa Ge CR tee Re oe
mee Dowin Death ae © Dathieot 22 Mov Als ee ee
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HELIS 20.0, Sisk og Death DOAtH ee. 22 Mov a7 7, SR eee
ROEHL Ss, Wioholm Deathie >. -. Life, se: 22 Nov 47. 5 nat Se
-EIWITT, fcsh Johann Death % |; Death ~*~: - 59 Nay hie gl et ice
TaShak, vusics orem 4 years - 3 years Sn, 28. NoV.47:- 345+ Pe ae ae ae ¢
MICEELY, retina ot Ce nai PEP MALS bey ee 14 Jen 8 eg at po SE
MOLLER, “Norcaxt i Death Life - 2 * 22 Nov.47 i see
Ne saNe, Parl 5 yours “5 years. - 22 Nov 47 a vat ee
RaW, Micha2t L Death 14 Jan 48 Z oe
S0ha in; Gio vet? A-years 4 years. 22 Nov 47 , :
STalTTMANN . farl “Franz Dest a 4 Death Geo’ Ak VON oS ae iad fe a. &. : a
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us a Ks SENTENCE es SPPROVaL me OF DEATH

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_SPONSEL, ‘Johann Georg Death | Death: ae 2 Feb 47 a A
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Gas oy 12-2018 (os vs. Hans TOELLE . LEB ot at) Tried 18 Sele 4 46

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DANGNER, aonert™ “2 somitted peter aes:
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RITES, Gocrg. = ek: i 4 years: eee 2 yor, 8 Tone, 46

Caso os 42. <20384 (vs v3- Paar DORRR ot a) t Tried 24 oct 45

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DOERR, inton | ae ie 7 ‘neath “1zinoaths:
Mat, ‘Mari Tg gt rag ae i4, menths — : 14-menths.
REISE ‘Aloys~ ee “15 months ~~ “Aécagnths

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“REMAN “adolf a Death Ny Bestnes Ais oA oc 48

GOETZ; -Xaverae re. 5B’ Fours, e Disapproved: 24 May: Ag

, GOR? 2M. NN, “Mat thaous Pooch bee _ Live fs a4 June 48
HalFZLur, Maurus *- a yosre: a ee Uis epproved 2’ May 48. °°.

24 May 48°. ~

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FRIEG, Hormann 2 aH Death gRit years.
‘MERFEL; Rudolf. <9... Life hx. ios 45 years
OVERLAGK, Karts Aeaaittede Sipe te St
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" ROTZACKER, Hena >. Bye or8 3 =e) _ Disapproved — 24. May AB.
“ SCENBIDER, Johann = se Death Death sur 24 May 48°"
“STICELING, Hoinrih Life ..-_ life” 21 May 48°

Saga, Fronz Bee = yeaxe - 8: years toned 4 Vay 48

C280 Now 12.2088 tos" vs s Josof PAIRS Brie 30 Sept 46 |

PULIZARUS, Soot) = “ 13 Mar 47

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“Caso Ho on. 12-2084 (08 vs s Indu HOLA CHER et si) Bshed 5 aug 47

“Death 4 ay “Death 2 eats 6 Ped 45

~HETZ, “Frroarton == _ Death | Sy? Death ©» 12°Feb 48”

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Case Hog 12-2067 (8g vB Theodore SOHILLINGS et al) Tried 16 or 46) ee.

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KeOLL, Fritz. 18 months. Je. months - oil June 46 he ees
NOHLEN, Hubort 2° “Moquitted — Ye 550 eae
SCHILLINGS, Theodore | 2 works gee Ae months ee Bs ‘June 46 eee 2s faa rae

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LONSER, indwig ee 28 years ah year 6, A eee 26. PvE A2.. eae eh

Caso Nos 13-2074 (us vs Wikolaus Ham) ‘tried. 2D Mar 46 yea e ‘ Ba

“Sass Noe 1228 (us vg Peter SOEs) Tetod | 1a for 47. s S ee eS

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. Case Woe 12-2119 (US y vs Earl sous) tried 12. Iu aly 48

SONNER, Earl a nequitted ie eee 2 ;

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- Gago Hos 12.2128 (us 1 v8 e Paul Eas) Sried 3 July. a

KaHNER?, Poul © ‘Life Life a3 i 25 Fd, 48

Caso Noe 12 2150 (us vs ‘Raith KOHLER et al) eked 25 Doe 28 oe gaees ror

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L»NGENFELD, Hugo eat | year. ren Disepproved : 17 June. 47 eae :
REINHARD, Hoihrich 1% years ae yeatss.2 7-17, June 47— eee |
RUPP , Hodinrich ear) years. bs ~ years se 17 Tune 47 %

TRENZ, ‘Johann: 3 ae a years. ei Jeers: werd ale, June 47

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WALDMAN, Srnst as Doatn oe Death | Rees 1 oct. 45 2 “19 tov 45. ee ae

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REININGER, Franz year. 1 year. aoe 23. Mar 47 et | Dae Soret

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" Caso Fog 12-2202 (us vs | Pah withelm sora) Trica 12 June at 3

scHULt, Pool vitbola sogui tted

“Gee0 Hoy. 12-2218 {os vs. Goore MaTEa et a) Tried “9 Ju ny 47 staat Vb bee

: PARCKER, Frclnrich © 10 years ee 10; yoare E 18 Mar 48° ae to ie ieee Bl Sa
oe go EELLWING, Otto Pent 3 years Moye 3 years 35%, 15 Mar 48° - PRR Ne eT A:
Tetra MAYERS Georg. One Tifemees.. Life a4 15 Mar, 48 :

; = MANDERS, , Withetn 10. Yoars, ; ey Yoar a ee gD. Mar. moe
eM iea ‘Gade Yo, 1 12.2256 Ly 6.66 (os vs Marios LISNEARE et. ‘ay ‘Tried 18 Jano "46%
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: LIENHARE, Franz ~~. 19 years © 3 years. fee 12 Noy 46 Wie ee
a Lat NBART, Markus / ae Death pes Reseda ees 12 Nev 46 26 Yor yee

eG Case ‘To, 12.2261 (uss vs “Watthias 2A0=H) ‘ried 16 May 46

7 ASE Matthias | Pine 15 years i. Dieapproved ; ig Jen 47° 2 bs - x aes

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esis ae “ase Ton 13-2270 (us » vs Peter SOrNBIDER et al) tricd 22. oct 46

“COLDINGER, “Franz e . “8 nonths - ie ‘months: 21 tay 42. i at
KLaES, Peter® . @ yeargi+,: 2 year Ss eas a1. Moy AY 27.
“SCHNFIZER, Peter’ “néquitted So eee Cee ers re
WOUL, Albort ~ 22 months... 22° AGT et 21 May WY ee ee) one
EER, i S38 8. mo eS months : 21 MO, eA hs es oe ee :

ae Mesee Yo, 12.2288 (os vs Bed nhard NODIER and Gust ay EHOELEARDM) Tried 30 jg 4 B ¢

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_ ENGHIHARDP, Gustav Death 28D Death x) A apr At 2 May aye
_ MOLLER, ¢Rotnhardy a Death fees Death» eae u“4 Pre ATs n32 May 47245

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3 pre ; 3280 Hos 12-2313 (us vs Karl | STOLE) ‘Tried 6 Jan 47. a vores eon ee

: “STOLL, ark ie 10 years as 20. yeare Fe 22 Mey a7 Bases :

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EE, Alwin BE) Death (2 “Death a is 18 3 July a7 “15 Ang 47/0 oe

“Case Noe 12-2381 (US vs Franz UMSTaTTTR -3) Tried 27: kue 46°.“

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“ase Yow "12.2400 (ts vs Brwin Karl Heinrich SORLICKAU) ‘Tried 2 May 47

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" SOHLIOYAT, ‘Trvin Karl 7 yeare tom 5 years Ess es 29 Jan 48 a Peg. “4
Heinrich © ees ; tee ne e ipdeseeee gets Se

2 “Qase Moy 12.2408 (US vs SEE BOESTEIN et al) Tried Bt, Oct a7 Sy ae Chae z a
eee 24 fe f Sake Kes Sept on gta |

_BoKsTEDN, Georg £4 °% Death’ is ; Death ; ; - § Mar 48° Greg. Sebi auteur, Soe i
__IPTaMBIER, Ernst. = Doatheeest- > Death 25% 97). 6: Mar 48 ete er, Pat ee

ce “STIZGLER, ‘hritn. Life: 3: life. 3s 6 Mar 48 25-"> Tig: £8 Signet
“4. BIURM, Schina hb ~~ Deathte. > Death><* : 6, Mar 49 2 ae ee Aga

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Le? cousEn tae eae SENTENCE PPROVED ©. DATR OF ©. DaTB OF EXECUTION.

Teens Weg ee £63 Ye 1, SENTENCE ©: * _EPROVaL a OF DEATH SurTmNCES

ae - tl
' P ? ie

Gase Yo, 12-2409 (us Ys | Helnrich FRAN) ried 22 Sept 47 a: ee, 2

v4 oe ts aa pile 4 mole Peng.

M2 “FRANKS, “Hoinrich = Peat Aree "Death : Aes 3 2 Mor 48 moe hae

& Ps

* > Fa - es: rt
Loos ee ih f.
TEE by Sohal g Gal hy ibs sismnilnk Fiala

oe

“Caso Now “12.2420 (us vs “albert saxon) | Tried 23. Jan 47 ge RRR ee

es w " ’ j ;

22 Yay | ar ete ERS

prt Fn
SASS

“wniesnem, _albo rt

é * ae “Caso os ‘2.2422 (cs v3 Peter ORS at al) Tricd 2 Tune "AB ar, ne Sa hee

Bp a ee ie 7G TERENS Matinioa Pa ae * Deaths see be : 7 June. 45. i Seccee aa
nee Sy ~ XOHN,-2 Potosi es ae : ie Dass vo a oe re Death plore a / June 45 oa Bao chal, cy ar ee do =
KSEE, Watsbias Gi Se. oTeath noe £5 life ae : ea a7 Tune 5, s PERE St

+

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iat
Rete hes

4

<> Desi. | a5 Juno 45.

Ae: :
ial : ; ~ Fee

“Ouse sora Le 2.2681 ins” vs Franz } MCNTSOWER ‘et a) ‘orf fed 18 May ‘40. eet mee

ee ee rege a tas

. BISER, Jenuna = ee “ac copittod
ENGPLS ISDN IER, Death”
- “Jocannn Sf See HS at A
A MATER Maree ee
: Mi SSLINGER. =
Ne BAL stholgacus x : ee ee
- MONTSCHER, Eraaz™ : Se paathe = lifes: ce * 122 Fed 4g, yak ae o
 OBRRMaYR, indie Srci-1)- yoars | | Uespprovea Jed’ 48 Rot gp SSeS eS Se bare
ee ae PFSIFFIR,. aton Nea Scgult tea. ips Ieee, iy Ee Pye Pe Nh Ts
4a ey ae: BUREL ONG att Ere 25 years - “- Dieapproved - 12 Feb 48 Sg Set oes

ifs a ee Prireh ae 2 S : 18 Feb AG 3s: : “aes

SEM, Hons” — life. Aa tite Bee 18 Ted, ee aS
ag a ae ee fe Wey ae aaa 55 i Se SI eee
Ene 8s "8:30 fin, 12-2598 ark v8. Pete Matt ob bal) Triad 20 See se peer op ah. ee
A ig pores, “path ie 7 sequttted 7 Lay a te eee : | Eau.

~ Lal Earl, Hethias ‘Slyears. >. 3 years. meres et Sul A? thgiene Se Ee
fret a: Peters ae : ae years. aS 2 Je: ars 2 ets = 16 came a7, cin ers

: rk ar
. a > = -

*,
‘
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i
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Saso 0k 12-505 ay iS 78 _Exast EPL and Jobann aa q pcm) tried 5 No Nov 48

. * ~ wg fe ‘ “isd a A a i : oe “¥ tej ‘ ‘; : ; [3 a ; ges

os a MS ae .

EPTDIACSR, aoa IE gover Sos See ang Ae fad
BOPMaNN, Erase = > ageulited» Siew, ager ce ae Fete |

.

‘Gase Hos 22615 (us fis a Michael 1 RATS") Trier. ie Sect os mee
gi thas des ee f rates of Sy ANS es Se ae
Rice KaIgma, Metaet| by Ears a year. pee “Phearrroved = S Bs Mex, a7 mene aed fe

X
’ ’ M1 4 me
a i
se See es Sate WSS
4 ‘3 as “a - aes.

“Case. Tos 12 2.2662 (03.5 vs Karl 3 HIS and Sedolt Kira) tried 30 Jan 40 i =e

heats eat

23 ee
zo wnat” ; ene we i

4 HESS, “Karl. se ees pS 1} year CaP 59 May 4799 fe eae ae
si i: KOFER, Budolt ee oF eat eee Sie: jeare. wy 19 May AT . is ?

a. ° 4

Sase Fon 13.2694 (es vs. Rar Heine SCHIRE SEER)! ‘ried ee Jul a 47

. t, 2 3
¢ &
.

pee ‘Disgvoroved = aA. for 48

| SCERSER, ‘Karl Foi ns

~
Bs " . “* “cad BY
3 2 Dik ae 3
3 - eon ee
et ty Be r
$ ~ ne 4 Ms $ :
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_ AQCUSED

 pRPaLLM@, Josof

 °"YRINERT,

eal

omens

ed

~~
ivf
’ ; :

SENTEN ich.

Care enema :

wPPROVED
SEN ENTENCE a

‘

Ciso Moe 000-50-2-28 (US 78 Stofan FLSISOH® wR oe

DATE OF

‘Dit OF. oon a

APPROVAL, oF DEATH SENTENCES © s ee

& al). Tried 10 Deo 46°

+

FLEISC: WOR, Stofan
SSINRICH, "Reinhold |
Berthold
MACEOLD,. Willy. e
MAERZ: WRILER, Jakob-
MARKER, Jo ‘sot.
MaRTIN, _inton <i
MATERN, - Walter Otto
METZINGER, Johann -
buco Mathias

“Ca 7) Yos. “)00-50—2229- (ns v.

| 20 ‘nonths-
Acquitted :

. Acquitted. cS
2 years . ="

acquitted
2 years

99 months
18 months ;

2 voare :

“2 years.
se vs r * % e {

2 years &

: 20 mont hs - 4

Di saporoved

18 months |
2 years

99 Sept 4% ne of

5 29 scot ate ree

) Sept at

a Sept AT;

3 y Sty ae : ; & per ‘
; ft ran

29 Scpt 47
29 Sept. “7

“Yaldonar- ;
NaLEPINSr, Brwin

_” NEUGEBOIY,. 'Fricdrich

NEUMANN, Otto
NI=MANN, ALois-
NOWKA, afrod
“OELZE, Otto. Be
ORTELT, Richard
Tegel’ Oswald Be

“Caso. We op 080-2-20 (us vs aes

69 months:
acquitted

20 ‘months:
21 months
acquitted
21 months
20 months.

21 montis . -
‘ acquitted —

Dt sapproved -;

‘on months

21 months :

Soy montha seas
— 20 months Bi
aD one :

2 PPALLER et

| 11 aug 4a.

‘sah ers AT ae ae to ae ee Z

oh ng A ee
ay ang 40 ae
ling 40 ;
11 aug AT si ce

8 Waldemar Kurt Hans yoaIE2R ak a1) Sete Ww Dos ‘ee

au yee oe

OSSEE.. aegis Juaot™
PHILIPP, Johann ;
PICKENLEN, adolf - ee
PITTER, Michael:
PLaTENIN, Alfred ~ _
PROSSWIMMER, Johann’

“ PUNDRICH, Paul ifred.

ch Ae “Erwin alfred

Ghee Noe

2 years.

1 8} months —
-. DL months

2k years.

“21 months

21 ‘months
% years
2 months

21 nonths a2

~900-50-2-31 (us. vs isihela

oh years ;

21 months= ~~
Zl months .

~ 9h years -

‘21 months -

months —.
- ob years =
_ 2) months =:
eL nonthe Chow

“=a eHAnD? ot a)

“a9 Sept 47.5 seis

al). Tricd 11 11 Dec 46 ~ we vay

- W, ‘sept a7
30 Sept 47). | Be eg hae te
- 99 Sept 47s ss yes See eae

20 Soot. 47. oe4 reas see
- 30, Sept EVA eee St eA

30 Sept 47 niraie er eh aaa
2 Sept. 47 Pies

Tried 16 16 Doe 48

EBERE. RDP, “Walhoin e
UBIDECEER, Nikolaus
YRITZER, Jo sof
MEIER, -.rno

MITSCH, Michael -
-MORR, Rudolf :
MUCK, Ferdinand
MUELLER, vi ohann'

Caso Noe _¢

acquit ted
eL months
acqui % ted

2 years
acquitted .

Serais ted
21 months

- yRLTEN, Wilhelm

. VELTUM, Josef .

_ WaLTEa, Karl.

* J AWRDINE, Friedrich
Max .. ’

WEITZEL, wolf

WIGIATSY,. sohann otto

“WOLF, ike laus

_ WaLa, Jchann as
WOERSOEEy Uichool

21 months
21 months

acquitted ©
erated
aL nonths ©
“16; ‘months

2 years

21 months.
21 nonthe
a years *

bs

x.

at months

2 years

-900-£0-2-52 { us yg wilhsl veut

. 21 months ;
e: aeguitted PES. 4

: 22 Aug “7 ht Pasar eae 3

29 aug 47. 2% <2
a eee So ges er
22 Je 2 LY gees Bes ‘Sr
oi Sey. : fe i ‘ x
ee be 3s & =) eS , ee a . es 3
ri me Pe ge * ae, as é
. bt ge ES eee

= me tal) ‘Tried 12 2 Dec 46 aS ae ee

21 Ronthe’ me

-

rte months

18 months
2 years
“21 months

eek months
a “Qyears oo)

MOE TN oN ee ae Yee aD

r ee, :

pb, 206 AT

“"* 43 “ang 47

2a hig 0, Shee

io dug 40 oe Jee
12 aug 47 . * ete atte. ¥

SoS Bovey 49 ye eS 3 ee

*
’
i
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f { ea, Rosy Ot : j
eae we wee) eee hes :
eiptasesaleh gente toads shes Me whieh agate 3G dpe fom Ri x 3

4 we me
." ~
Pe Pw ed Lato us
nis. le we ow. * ‘ Ss # : ard
cS ipa as al eG REE, ce PR eS ee


.

“aCCUSED

eed

As
Case ‘Yo. 00050-2233 (US. vs Herbert BUENGER et al

SENTENCE

RTCA A

APPROVED
SENTENCE

Date OF
APPROVaL

¥ EXECUTION *
SENTHNICES,

) Tried 13 bee 46.

BUENGER, Horbart!
BICHHORN, Hans --
GEISSLER, Josof —
“EENTSCHEL, sngust |
WUERTZ, Nikolaus
“TELLER, Martin =
ZIMMERMANN Goorg.

Geen Nos.

000-60-2-34 (us. vs iene

se acquitted ¢ ae

<2 % Acquitted — ty ae cna

~ equitted . :

eee
-18 months. : “is ancnthe
~18- months « ‘18 months
18 mon kn’. aoe months

‘12 aug 47.
12 Aug 47°
12° Aug ah

‘saan BURGER et al). trio’ 17 Dee 46

BURGER, Hang i
‘FEILER, Nikolaus ~~
YON FUCHS, Friedrich.
KOLLECKER, Eduard -
KREMER, Vietor |

Z2 21 Poathe?
21 months —
20 months |
21 months -
21 months —

Disapproved
Pisapproved
- Disapproved

21 months ©
21 montis

ey! sug 47
27 sug 47.
27 aug 47

27 fag 47

_ 27 ing ats

Caso Hos 000-56-2:58 (us! v3 Josef STURM *: al) Tried 18

RUVEOLD, Hermann

SCHWERDIFEGER, Otto-

SOHN REE ss
~ Josef ; : ae,

‘SCHMIDT, “Androas over

SCHMITT, Lorenz —
SAIEBEL, Heinrich -
SZABO, Sosof «

— *

20 oa
_ 20 months -
i nonths +

ore months —
acq vitted
sie Zo. “aonths

20 “nonths
20: months

peciteae

& 7, months is

20 pontha’

Disaoproved

121 Oct. ag
"41 Oct. 47.
“41 Oct 47

* ; he
11 Oct 47

11 Oct 47

Dee A6-

“aso Moe 000250238 (us vs Brba rd HAGHENBERGER et al) Tried "18 Dec AG

| HaCHENBEROER, “Erhard. 2 yeare eer

LEDE, Ottocm.~ <j
LOHR, Woiresne x

MUELLNER, Samuel ~~

OBEEYRANK, Franz ee.

PROCKL, Josef.
RaBL, Jo sef
RESSLER, albin

Case Nos ¢ Hos 069-50-2-57 (us vs Walt er SCHMID? et

21 months
~ 20 months

~~ 21 months. |
me years.
* Acguitted

21 months

21 months»

Dieororeved

31 months

~ Disspproved

21 months

21 months)

pel year ta

221 onthe

ll Oct 47.
11 Oct 47
11 Oct 47
11 Oct 47
11 Oct 47:

li Oct 47

11 Oct

al) Tried 20 Dec 46

SCHMIDT, Titer
SCEWESIG, Johann

STRaUBINGER, August.

STRAUSS, Wilhelm ~
THEISSL; Friedrich

_ QUELLMANN, Michael
|" TIRSCHEL, Tndwig oe

2 years ,

20 months
21 months
ral months

.2 years.

2 years

- 20 -months

21 months —
22 as :

21 months

Disapproved

@ years

21 months _

en months

A Nov 47
4 Nov 47
4 Nov 47
4 Nov 47
A Nov 47.
4 Nov--27
4 Nov 47

er DIESTHEI et al)-Tried 23 Dee er

Te roses Nos ¢ 00050-2488 (0s. vs Xav

BESIER, Kart?"
DIETHEI, Savor

_ EBERT, Gustav

~. FROEMTER, Hermann
HECHLER, Georg
HEGGER, Max ‘
HEIN, Leo. .--
LEASE, « Alfred

3 years ke

~9-months |

21 months
3 years

21 months
2k years.

21 months

_ 2 years
9 months

21 months
2k years

Z1 months ;

_ 2 years

21 months --

21 months

21 months ©

i

i -

29 Oct 49
29 Oct 47
29 Oci 4”
29 Oct 47
29 Gc 47
29 Oe3 47

59 Oct 47.

29 dct 47

a 4

toa Ei Sa Na ES. So iki he Boigu Sh
TS Rite a MN Nt Sta

of dialling ites Tee wtih: isthe nat a: at hac

tb


ACCUSED smTuCk APPROVED. \ DATE OF DAT? OF EXECUTION «|
: aes , soe AY | APPROVAL OF DEATH SENTENCES . |
Case Noe 000-580-239 | (us vs Friedrich ‘oREND et al) Tried 26 Dec 46 '_
OREND, Friedrich 2 wears fei: 2 yeare 2% meme, ie 47 -
PANKE, Julius 2’ years2 2s 2 years fear not Ae. 47° fi
PUSSEK, Karl /— 20 months 20 months 2% Ang. 4% rf : &
ROTH, Georg 3. 2 years ae years- 34 27 Avg APs “
SCHMEIDL, Franz = . 2 years, © years: © ~ 27 aug A? ae 2
SCHREINER, Franz 20 “months. ~ 20 months: -oe Rh tec 2 eae SF ake x
- SPERLING, Martin 2 years soe we yer eee 27 sng 47
Konrad aE Bee e ene : a: rth
re ; ; ae aad
Case Noe 000=80-2-40 (us y vs albert STEFAN et a). Tried 24 Dec 46 . ee
TURAN; albert, 2years  2years. 16 ‘Oct 47 | a
TRESCHER, tudwig. Ris. SS months . 23 months’ » ‘ 16 Oct 47 ey a
ULMER, Werner hei,” CO months’ 20 months... 26 Oct 47... Bete ee Sa
; VERHO SVEN, Joham ©" 2 years;,. .2 years< 16 Oct Ata seci es a te Pee
WaGNSR,* Karl sy. 20 months 20 months ~~ © 316 Oct 47 : . Z
Wat tsR, Erich =... 22 months 22 months £16 Oce 47>: 4
WactRaCH: Werner ©« 23 months . 23 months. 516 .0ce 472. x
hag a) i SECA eg ee years “ Yearsac” gees 16 Oct 47 :
ERM , Joss f 21 pon tne 21. nonths.. 6 Oct 47. d
‘Case Now 0 000-50=2- (us. Ys Gottlob BECK et “al) Tried 30 Dec 46 :
BABCHST ADOT, Hoing 20. nonths “s 20 months 5 29 Oct 47 s
BECK, Gottlob | ~ neo months 29 ‘menthe Su 2700s 47. ,
von da REM, Georg -. 23 years. “. 25 years fs «= .297 Oct 4%. . ‘
HOPPMANN, Nalter. 2 ywers bie 2 Years cers ele Oct AZ.
EOHBSL, Kurt Gustav .. 20 months 20 months ~ 27 Oct 47 -
“WLUTTW ANY, Ottove ae 20 months 2 months: at OECw Ss te PoE ig ars
2IPEYAN,, iriedrich as RGR) : i, years 2. es Oce ke
“Case Mo. 000-5024 (os vs Hermann 2198) Tried 3 Feb 47 < Seg RT a ue
_ ‘ZICH, crmann “Death = so Death fara 6 Sept’ 47 26 Sept 47 .
Case Hos 000-502 3 (us Vs Hotnrich 1 Pats) Tried 26 Dec 46
i : Bia gf ty | “zs 4
é PALM, “Boinricit eo 12 years. z 17" years ye ee ae oct. Ay
Case Yoo 090-50-2-44 (us vs angust BROBSE et al) Tried 10 Jan 47
BURK4R?, “Josef... aeq acttads r : ey ae / 7
DOEMNGR, Franz, ~ Maagul bed Pee "sk aN es age fag FP ee -
aoe a ‘Thomas Anh hes Se Mee are (iy eter pig ee Gs ae
: SIPS, terra ae acquitted “ agitate cee :
* Case Nos 000-50-2=45 (us vs Josef wenn) Tried 27 Jan 47° :
HERMER, Josef ; 15 yeare ‘ge “15 pears 9 Jan Ss]
: ’ panes ee ” | 1 : ; % .
A is ¥ i ‘%*
4 ~ : .
ie
: < fe: ein

aCCUSE

* xs

SENT HICH

od

4PPROVED
SENTENCE,

ne

DaT@ OF

poets MEM

DaTS OF  SxROUDION

OF DeaTH SEN ePENCES

n 47.

CaRL, ‘Tndwig Philip
DalB, Robert. Hugo

- DIERIN, alexander —
_. DUERMSIER, Jossf
FISCHBACH, Hoinrich ©
GRAUFY, Johann~
HENKSL, Friedrich
UMM, Franz

eve Case Hos 000--50-2-47 (us v8 Josef OL aSHAUSER at a1) Tried 20 Jan an!

cect ttea |
| Bs years
“6 years
3 acquitted

a

acquitted

. Acquitted
‘2 3 Years.)
20. aaa

23 years
4 AL,

$3 years

Pisavproyed

4
My x

; Aap eee
S 2 Sept 4702.

ws

a Cisa Yo. 000.-60-2-46 ves v3 Ludi’ Philip CARL et al) Srted 4

<

2 feat a
2 Sept: 87

GhaSE USER, Josof
, BaYNE,- Max .[ = .-e
_ HERFF, Wilheln |
JOREWITZ, Edvard —
JOSIG3R, Willi
KaSMPER, Robert
K.sRCH, |

KELLER,

“Witholm
BOCE Johannes

| Soquittes: ‘
acquitted
“acquitted

Acguitted .

aequitted
acquitted |

acquitted: - :

mecha eS 5

ue case Yo.’ *po.50-2-48 (us. vs sxuet AUTOGR, i = tried. 8 Jan 47) >

LaNGE, Kurt oe

_ LINDN=R, Jakob ee
Ms PTEKOWITSCH, Peter.

NEMETZ, Friedrich
Paul, Franz ~ 04

; PRETTIN, Wilhelm”

‘CEs Bwald _

SCHEB=S
- SEITZ

we

or rextes

20 months
20 months

21 months 7

21 months -
21 months. -
20 months = ¢.
21 months 44h

21 months-

._21 months

20 monthe. ©
oe 21 nonths -

a Sonthe! DP

20 months =.

*
ap ee

20 months —

2
+

’

21 months.

“V7 Nov a7
17 Nov 47 ore
17 Nov 47.

17 Nov.47 ---
17. Nov. 47.40 =: 73;
17. Nov. 47 eases

17 Nov 47

LY: Nov Le

FORST2 R, Valentin
: NaZkL, waster :
REINHART, Xaver
SCHNEIDER, Oskar
STEINMANN, Wilhelm
WaCHaR, Erich -
WaLTER, Wilhelm -
«SELLER, Fricdrich

21 months.

21 months _
- 22 months --
21 months ©
21 months -

21 months
30 monbhs

21 monthe .

: “21 aontha:
oe. 8 Y months.

22 months
21 months”
21 months
21 months
&% months

BL months *

“Case “Yo, 000-50-2-49 (US ye Valentin FORSTER et al)

+

21 Oot 49

21 Oct 47. .
21 Oct 47.
21 Oct 47... + —
21 Oot 47.
21 Oct 47. -.

2) Oct 47285 =,
: 21 Oct A fs is

*rted 9 Jan AT 22-2

‘ F

BOOS, Robort cated

BUSCHL,

BUSCH, Michae 1
DYSL, "Yeltor Josef

oy

30 aanthe
2l months
6 months

aaquitted

30 months 3

21 months

6 months. -

y ies Yo, 000-80-8-69 (us vs re Robert: anton 00S

st al) Sried 18 ang?

7 Jan 4g
7 Jan 48
7 Jan 48 —

ahd gy &

tase al


SCOUSED <2 SENTENCE fv. STROVED |. Ong “Dal® OF me “pire OF EXEQUTION
pines Ss Said net ; = SENTENCE & ae PeROVsL, pa OF DEATH SENTENCES

? Caso tos 000-562-104 {08 9 vs Karl aout 2 Levante a)! ried 31 sy at pes

LEEMeN, “Marl 7 es ‘Tite fy. a tite 3 Feb 3

ty ="; (4

august: 7-: ; a ay
SCAMIEDER, adolf oe 28 months Be 28 moatha gb we. Feb 480

; WE

sae ‘Case No. 000-50-2-105 (os. vs Theodor sans. co0i) ‘riod 22 sie 4t eS:

** otuTZ-ZENNER, 9 Life. per eecs “tre Ri Ask Pes 8 Mar 48 Big <i ough vice F
bs mneptor ee Pe ee eee ol ee

C8 z ~ Vie pe tip: 5
Loa wei ce:
: m Cry

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wa Gase “Nos G00=60-2-108 cs vs tndvig “GRUND) tried 6 Mon 4, sy vas re 53 roe
“GRUND, Sudwig © 10 yours oo 17 Yer 48 oe es

AvatE, Jonenn y ae Aequitted See. yar bor ey Se aes ed ae. Bik ea a ee
; 4 - ; Nl ss ee 4 rae wy : am LN Rian tA tas ce Se

bate

a ¥ ae ig 2 ° 5
ero. "Shia ees th

a se Noe (00-60-2107 (us. Vs Chrhstian ‘Georg HELLER et a1) tried 25 Soly A

(ERLIER, Christian agguttted a Oe pas tae ae
Pc Georges a) bir as oes ai, eee a Sr oh
SCrMELZE, Otto” ei “ soguttted 2 us 3 Ae a es 8 ‘ oes ees. en

“Case Mo. ‘000-£0-2-108 (us v8 , Kerl _SERRNAOBOK. et a1) ried. 7 July a7

Sar we aoe ee if

: ERE WOECK,. Yori: 20. years. pe “20 years: i = 29 Mar 48.

* G2 80 os 000-802-109 (U5 vs | Johannes “SERSOEEID ot at) Tted 1 25 ane 47 Sater
tee $ 4 "3 a8 Rnd Pee Ne Roe es SY,
“BERSCHS1D, J channes 46 years” y Ss years” iy se 18 ony “48 , os : Spee
BOLK, Hithola ade 15 years 815 ates | bese. yer "38 a Deeeee Sere
“BOSCH, Jakob Petor “Acquitted BS ie BE 'S es hg dS ee ae

DENESOAYTSCR, Iwon 5 years. ae “eD years. See: ie “48. tee 28. = itis! eres ras
BUCHNER, Bmil o> {5 years + 3 years © eng 19, Mar 48-5 Te ae Eas ara
LESNSR, ‘Hoinrich _ eis: 5 years fete 0: years. ee: a 18. Mar: AS Eye a peo ree : &

PIETZARKA, ‘Franz’ > 15 years =~ 15 years, Se pea Mar. 48 5 RAY afr ig soe Be wie pare a

pte |
:
4
fe |
ee
4
= 4

oe a re

; STS TRIAGE Franz’ acquitted oa <S eae Se aos Ree oe oe os

~

fase os 000=50-2-110 (US vs _Soset sewn) tried 15 ‘sent 47

ese : . Sees i
REMVELE, Josef. - _ Death x SS 2 “Death vig 2A Moy : 48 sf ee ae aes

SE <s- i

Bie Dh iterate nee AN A

fase Nts 000-560-2138 (os. vs ‘GottLed ais riod 26 ane Az

i TRISCH, Goetiod easy S. years, bieapproved =. 20 Feb 48

ase . Bo, 000-602-118 WSs vs Wichs <1 OCR et ai) ‘tried 18 Jul ate a2 Re
ETNTERSEER, gohan Life Say x Life cs é 15 ‘Oct 47. Bi eds ey S rag
NEUBAUER, Franz Pifers 2 vee Life Ae ae, 15 Oct qq : re SS aagh, S Aan ads e StS |
RIENER, Sosof Soquitted 2 eos eo toes End Ps ae ee
SUESS, "Wilhelm <=... 15 yeare® 15 years . . 15 Oct OD ye cate ee ae es
TRUMMER, Johann =. > 4-years 35-32 years 15 Och 472 $70 vee ce is eg ET
UNRECHT, Josef = = Life. ea LALe shots 27 y tele Och. Att pe es me ee 2
VOGEL, Michool a Life - pes Life. Stzied 19 Oct 47x: She Ge eS

44 chy Oe
- Lind oad Mb ee a jae
é Epa ieny a
> Ge" af te

. %


OCU SED eae ae SENTENCE APPROVED Date OF. Dale OF EXSCUTION
LP as ae Se SENTENCE sprRoval OF DeatH SENTENCES
(ee nent Ye : Snag ree a 4 eens peers ~

Gage Noe 000502294 ius vé Geore 430) oried 28 June a

> -

Rt, Goore rect fe ; 5 years * : ‘3 years. anes 30 Jan 48

Case Nos 000-250-2498 (us. ve Frank sexo Tried 17 Oct a7

ule

SEM, Franz isae : 20 years : : 20 years. S, Z Mar 38)
Cas0 Nos 00250-2296, (us vs Johann Tg IA) et al) tried 1 4 July 47
ANTFOWLAE, Johann 3 years oe 3 peat es iy: 13 Fed 48 a “
pape Rudolf’ BS 3 years” ; 3 vente. pt 13. Fev. 48-,, ne

Gena No, 06 000=502-97 (US. vs slots WUBELP AUER et al) mtea U1 ene 41

Paste eden Prt eee Per hor 3 i
BN seemed Msdap Raa oa a este

Beh Pease NOS y
Fag Naina eT eect GER SA

MIEKLBAUER, "lois: . EG years - ‘5 $ “6 years” " oe 29 Jan 43 4
STOLZ, aneaet Wilheln 2. BEER = re A wears, ; eo: Jan 48, ‘
! Gase Ho. 000.50-2-98 (US vs Anton praray) Tried 3 soot Ay eS a ate 4
BITRE, anton Boo “Death. i Disapproyed es vay 4g
“Case Noe on0s0- 2.99 (os. vs Franz KOEN et at) Snried 22 duly 475- egot se
e ¥ORN, Frane’ % eee Ss" years. “7 ‘e: we weard, = 4 May 48 :
LEYSER, Kurt « a a 20 years ~.. 5 years = 4 May 48
LOBZENSKY, Georg - 10 years: 5 years. A May 48
REISS , Johann oe 5 years. pa 5 years: 4-May 48
> $CaUH, " undreas - ne 20 years - 10 years: ~ 4 May. 4 4
*. WICKLSIN, met. +10, years” ce OD years” “fae 4 May 48
VOLLERINK, ‘Julius Re S. oor ase 7 5 years: tee 4. May 48
C80 Yon “000=50-:2-100 {os zs Witte is cet et al) tried 2A July a1 ey Se
EMM, “Wilhelm aie A 5 years” pe 3 years: as rai 27 Feb 48
WOERTEL, sibert SAL years” 2.5 years e72> 27 Feb, 46
Rudolf : ee cat ez ‘2a Bee ef a a Ts aes oF: : é
MORITZ, Wilhelm = ea eee Aaa CERES
MOSER, Hans =s = ae 15 years © - 10 years ~ 27 Feb 48
PaNitzZ, Julius; 15 years _. .3 years s+ 99 Feb: 48 =. ah
SCHNEIDER, Fritz lO years 5 years” 29 Yeb 48° re ome.
SCHUELTER, Bubert® 5 years 3 years | 27 Feb 48- ae ae 4
_ SENGENBERG GER, Hans § years .~ 3 years - Cae OF Feb. 48
SITTE, Hans ea 5 ESTE: . 3 years Poe: ee R7 Feb 48

3

si caso No, 00060-2101. (ws vs sueust BURKEARDD et al) Tried 17 June 47

Beeb ire parts ee months’ fon aenthe soak Peace te to ee
TRaUs, alfred — 15 years ..-15 years’. “15 Mar 48 : % ;
WEENTR, Karl Hans 5 veer SZ 5 years 15 Mar 48

Gase Toe 000-602-102 (as ve Johann KaSINER eb al) Tried 8 Sept 47

ASTER, Jonanh ee Lifes 4 fife es : 92 Mar 48

LUIFENHORST, Josef S-years = 8 ‘years. 22 Mar 48
3 MUsLASCHIES, CE oe = 10 ye ars | 10 years ¥ 22 Mar 49

*

0259 Tos 000-502. SOP W03. AUS xs Bubolt. BRAGHTEL et y)— Tried + Deo a7

BRACHTEL, Bndoit: = Aequitted- a ghee Poe
ZIMVERMANN, Karl. acquitted” een eG
| 43

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2
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i
;
:
4
;

\QCUSED ‘SENTENCE APPROVED DATE OF = Dal Z OF EXECUTION
| ie : SENTENGE APPROVAL OF D¥aTH SENTENCES _

“

Case No. 000-502-113 (vs vs Heing THORENZ ef al) Tried 12 Sept 47

TEORENZ, ‘Belnw Bb Yeard.cctn 5 ‘ware - ey s Feb 4g

C2se No. 00-50-2115 (us 1 vs Johann KOENIG et al) Tried 7 Oct 47

KOENIG, Johann ~ Life Se 25 years apr 48

9
KURZ, Rol ‘ 20 years ~ 20 years 9 «pr 48 >.
PAULUS, Brnst ~ -. S. yeargiee<* 5 yearg * 9 spr 48°
SCHAEFER, artur ~ 20 years 5 years. -9 spr 48'-
SCHNSIDER, Karl oe; LAfecee Life - 9 Se 48

Case No. 00050-2114 (US vs Ludwig SILBERMANN et a1) oer 2b Jury 47

RETA PIED i ORISA IRRE AINA RRBLN 9 PRES AH Sig Np RRL I RC pent ERNE TRS EN «Strom Foner gor hy + m8 tor

aLBERTH, Todwi @ 10 yeurs 10 years 19 Feb 48 :

BERGER, ‘Jopof acquitted | owe ae

DEEG, Witholm wees 4 years ae Years 19 Feb 48 ~<a
PakL, Robert acquitted - ae q
SILBERUM, Ludwig 6 years 6 yeare 19 Feb 43 ig ;

Osu a 000-502-117 (us vs Felarich BECK et ai) Tried a July. 47

BECK, Heinr ich | 3 years Ԥ$ years 18 Feb?4g 4 . ee
HUPFER, Stefan - ss Acquitted ~ : | i
MUELLER, “Yendolin acs ceon $e : : : 8

Oaso Nos 000-502-118 (US _ vs Wan MIELEN2) Tried 15 Aug 47

aw ¢
MTEL aH, Trans ae Poa th | Death Tes 2-Mar 48 does

bree

Caso No. 000-50+2. 18 (US vs Ernst SCuMTDR) Tried 26 Aug 47 “ss

SCHMIDT, Ernst ——SsLife life 7 apr 48

Case No, 000-502-120 (ug 4 vs Pater onan) Tried 1 Aug 47

OTTER, Peter Death Sider tite 17 Mar 48 ~

Case Noe 000-502-121 (US vs Georg SCUALLURMAIR) Tried 23 Sevt 47

sie
aaa Deathh . Death “ 11 Mar 46
Georg

Case Nose 000-50-5 (US vs Hans ALTFULDISCH et al) Tried 13 May 46

AaLTFULDISCH, Hans Death Death 30 apr 47 28 May 47
‘BaRCZaY, Stofan Death =~ ~——dDeath 30 «pr.47 27 May 47
BILLMaANN, Karl ~°~—Ss:«zDeath Life ~ 30 «pr 47

BLEI, zmgust Death. Death 30 apr 47° 26 May 47
SRUEXNING, Willy Death Death 30 Apr 47 27 May %7
CSERNY, Michael Life Life 30 or 47

JitsL, Hans Death Death 30 May 47 238 May 47
DOERR, Ludit:g Death Life 30 «apr 47

DRaBEK, Otto Death Death 30 apr 47 27 May 47
(|SORERT, Willy Death Death - 30 «apr 47 27 May 47

aCCUSED

Nae ae *

BIGRUBER, August

HISENSOEFER,
He inri ch a

ENTRESS, Friederich.

FIEGL, Rudolf

FIT SCHOK, ; Botari ch:

FREY, Willy--
GIES: Heinrich
‘GOESSL, Goorg

GRsHN, Werner”

GRIMM, Johannes.
_GRZYBOWSEI, E
— GUST ZLAIF, “Paul

HaEGER, Hoiarich
HEGENSCH TB IDT |: Rang -

HENK EL, Withela

HOENLER, ie 3

HUBER, Fras
JOBS, Willy:
K. alSER? Paul

K. UPMANM, anton

K.WUTNY, Franz

KEILWITZ, Kurt. .

KLIMOWITSCH, Kaspar _
CREBSBiCH: Eduard ~
KORGER, Viktor

KRY INDL, ‘Gus tay =

mer

Herbort.

(bat PERT, Pordinand _

LEZ, ‘Tésof
WL, Foiiaee

4

 MaQK,- J4thelm ° «>

MaYER, voset :
MIESSNS:, “Brach -
MUELLBE, Umil-

MUELLT, ‘3
MYN TAK i Redol? -
WIEDER

NORRE Vinsenz*

PRIBYLG.*: Mormann —

PRIEZBIL, Theoptiil *

RIECLER, Josof -

‘RUTYa, advif

‘SIGMUND, “Taninas |

STRIE UGEL, Otto
STRULLEK, Karl

TRAUNER, Leopold.

THUM, -indreas ©
WaSICKY, Erich.
- WOLTER,
PCLIER. Viktor
Zu PTEB ol

Waldemar

~

—

Mtheim ~

tats mR, Josef

| SPATZMINGOER, ans”

~

PP RO VED

oe fad 4% dd Fo
G2 Sagi, tbs.

SENTENCE

=’ SENTeNcE
Death Death
Death Death ~
Death Death
Death. Death
Death .. Death —
Death. Death
Death Life
Death Death. -
Death Death.
Death - Death.
“Death ! Life
Life _ ~ Life
Death .. Death
Death... . Death:

~ Death : Death.

- Death + Life.
Death _ Death
"Death > =>. - Death ~

. Death == =: -* Death ~.
Dedth' = - Death.
Death © °° Death -
Death <2 .4.%" Death “3 *
Death «=o: epeath yy 1 at
Death 5 32 Death -
Death a TA fe.
Death Death
Death y= 4. Life. 3"
Death . Death VAG4S

‘Death = Death -

: - Death VA aate<"
Life ~~ Life ©.
Death _ Death
Death Death

* Death Death
Death Death -
Death - Death

= Death Death
Death’ “se Death ss

: De ath Death.
Death * Death

_ Death Life
Death - Death
Death Death
Death Death
Death Death -

- Death - Death
Death Death

. Death Death

.. Death “~ Det h
Death < 7: Death
*. Death’. > Death

Misia andes

DalE OF

ies

RRP RR peer cau coe Meee neurite Sty

47

DaTE OF EX=CwW ION

OPES Hare oy

oPPROVAL OF DEATH SENTENCES -
apr 47.26 May 47.
‘pr 49 28 May 47
aor “47 28 Mey 47
Apr 47 27 May 47.
apr 47. 27 May 47
apr 4%? , 28 May <7
By ay Aik ee
apr 47 27 May <7
apr _47 28 May 47
apr 47 28 May <?
sor 47. =
spr 47 . ;
apr 4%. 27 May 47_—
apr 47 2? May @
sor 47 ” 28 May -17
“spr 47
apr 47> 38 May 47
apr 47 28 Moy 47,
apr 47. ~ -28 May 47
aor 4%" 27 May 4
aor47 ° 27 May 47
cepr 47. 27 May 47
Apr 47° . 28 May 47
apr AP 6: 2h May 47——
ROT AY ft eee
apr 47°" 27 May 47
pr 47
wor 47-<.27 May 47
apr 47 28 My 47
apr 47 -—
apr 47
-or 47° .27 May 47
apr 47 28 May 47
aor 47. 23 May 47
apr 4% 27 May 47
apr 47 -28 May 47
apr 47? 27 May 47
aor 47 2 May 47
Apr 4% 27 May 37
jor 47 +. 27 May 47
or “7
apr 47 27 May 4
amr 47°:, 28 May 47
apr 47” 20 June 47
dor 47 28 May 47
spr 47 27 May 4
pr 47 28 May 47
apr 47 22 May 47
sor 47  282May 2
aor 4? 2 May 47
aor 27 May 47

trict eg belted ate

Oa ea

aCCUSED

*

Case No, 000-50-5-45 (US vs

APPROVED DaTE OF

SENMaNCE

pardrcsncat Wir: ne Tacha

Karl FLEISCHER) ater 7 Cot phy

FLEISCHER, ‘Kark Death ;

SRE AE iy %

Case Noe 000--50-.5-46 A vs

Death ted 19 ye 48

Fanscarl von POSERN) . Tried | ” Nov A?

¥ EXECUTION
A 1 SPs TENCES

VON POSERY, Lifese Life 23 dor 48x
Hanscarl ane deg Se oS
Gase No. 000~50-5-47 (Ug vs Wladislaus DOPISRaba) Tried 26 Oct 47_
Do TERALA, : Death Death - 13 apr 48
“ wtadtetaus: eee j
fade No. 90050-5428 (US vs Heinz ROLLHOZST) Tried 1 Oct 47
BOLLHORS?, Heinz Life Life 31 Mar 48

Case No. 000--50--5-49 (0s s v8

Paul 40 ual “aried 16 oct Av

Wo LFRM, P aul Life

Oaee No. 000.50-5-80 (us. vs

~

Life. 26 May 48

adoif BERG et al) ieted 10 Nov 47

BERG, adolf *
WEIDHOPER, Karl

¢ years re
15 years

Case NOs 000-50-5-51 (US vs

na years

15 years 1 «nr 48

anton x1BIN) Tried 24 Oct ‘Ay

KLEIN Anton Death

ee a

Case Nos 000-50-9 (US vs Josias Prince m

pie apr 48 tS ie a

aug £7

BaRNEWaLD, otto - Death
BENDER, august _« 30 years
RERGMEIER anton . Death |
DIETZSCH, arthur 15 years
BISSLE, Hans_ Death
—GREUNUSS, Werner Life
GRIMM, Philipp Death —
GRO SSM. WN, Hermank ' Death
inCKMaNN, Heinrich Death
_EEIS EL, _Gustay Death
HELBIG, Hormann Death
Fate i -FLLENBO GEN Life
Fdwin =
a a. _Josof Death .
.KocH, ilse - Life
“_ KOSELER Richard Death
KRalTAURST Hubert ~ Death
(ERBACH, Zans Death
MERETS y Peter - Death
OTTC, Yolfgang 20 ie
nip 15% DER, Hermann Death
“PT EIGs 2a, “Bnil Death
REIMER, Guide , Death-
ACSGEER, Helmut Death
_SCEMIOE, Eons Death
_SCs0B sa? , Max. Death
Sean albert Death
VaLTECK, Josias Life
VENLT, waltor 15 years
WITRELM, ‘Fricdrich Death
wOu!, Eens Death
ZiseCKan, Franz - Life

- Death hi Mar. agi: ‘
ma WaLDSCK et al) Tried i+
Life 8 June 48
3 years — 8 June 48
Death | 8 June 48
15 years 8 June “48
Death — 8 June 48 ~-
20 years 8 June 48 -
Life . 8 June 48
Death - 8 June “48
Life 8 June “8
Death 8 dune +8
Death - 8 June 48.
15 years 8 June *8
Death .- B June 48
4 years ¥: 8 June 48
Dest h.»~* 8 June 48
Death? < 8 June +48
Death 8 June “+8
20 years 8 June 4
20 years 8 June 48
Death 8 Jur 48
Death 8 June 48
Life 8 June 48
Life 8 June 48
Death 8 June “8
Death 8 June 4 :
Life 8 June 48
20 years .- 8 June +
5 years 8 June +
Death _ 8 Juae “8
Death 8 June +
Life 8 Junc 4
53 wi,

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ACCUSED

Case Nos 000-50-5~25 (US vs Lauriano WAVAS et

SENTENCH

ee

—

«PPROVED
SENTENCE

DATE OF’
SPP ROVAL

TH OF EXScuTion

OF DBsTH SENTENCES

al)Tried 21 July 47

eae Felez
FERNaNDEZ, Moises

GONZALES, Indalecio

a ens a

Navas; 1 Tauriano

~ Case Nos _000--50-5.26 & 000-50-5-27 (US vs Karl MORSLE et al) Tried 9 Sept 47 _

-2 years

20 years
Death-
Life —

Pi stiorcved

20 years
Death ——~
Life

2 Mar 48 :
2 Mar 48

2 Mar 4

2 Mar 33°

a
‘

aRNDT, Eormann
FLECK, Karl
GOEBEL, Bernhard
KIRNER, Baptist
KLAPPER, Johann
“KOE SRNR, Max
MOEGLE, Karl
Pl0LLa, Leopold
PFEIFFER, Jakob
“POMMERICH, Paul —
, SHIDEL,-ois:
WEGERT, Johann

BPS Pek ee taht we Me

case Ho. 000-.50.5-28 (US vs. adolf BERG et al)

8 years
Life

10 years

6 years.
Life
Life

4 yoars

acquitted

Life

aicguitted

3 years
3 ork

5 years
Life.
10 years

~6 years

Life
Life
4 years

Life

3 years

3 vee

14 May 48
14 May 48
14 May 48

14 May 48 -

14 May 48
14 May ®
14 May 48

14 May 49°

14 May 48
i May 48

Tried 11 Sent 47

BOEEN, Biers

“GLOSze, “Walter

HaaSSENGIER: Walter —

MUSLLER, Wilhelm -

OBST ar TAUT: scecen

P SROUTKA, | alexander

SCHULZ, Franz
tex tirioa

Pomme TP Sase

. Death.

Death
Death ~
Death
15 years
Death

Life d

Death
Life
Life...
Death
15 years

Death |

Life

15 May 48
15 May 48
15 May 48
17 May 48

-15 May 4s

17 May 48

‘15 May 48

“No. 000--50-5-29 (us. vs Karl BERTSCH et al) Tried 22 Oct ae.

Gat ott onax eas.

as

eho
ar
"ia

KAUPP, Erwin

F aUPP ;- ‘Wilhelm
Pasar Wax?” :
CIELAFF, sree Willi

het. kis 2 Seto: site. a

Death
Death
20 years
Dea th-
Death

Death

Death
Death -
20 years
Death
Death
Death

15 May 4g
15 May 48
15 May 48

15 May 48

15 May 48

"15 May 48

Case Nos 000~50-5.30 (US vs Bene FERNIKORN et al) Tried 21 Oct 47

FERTEORN, derniard
GUTTENBERGER, Franz
: KusTts BL, wWa11d

MOF LLER, Fritz
MOrn, Nikolaug

Life
Life
Life
15 years
10 years

Lite.
-Life

Life
15 years
10 years

GLaS et al) Tried 12 sve 47

Case No. 000~505.31 (US vs Karl

GLaS, Zarl~
ETRE Kurt.
PILLIXE aR. “Franz
SLIPETZIN, Anton
VEI2Za Felsth

4 “te

Life.
Beath
30 years
5 years
Death

Life
Death

30 years
5 yeas
Death

51 -

15 May 48

15 May 48

15 May 48
15 May 4

8
-15 May 48

te + 4 4
oh ‘ * 4 hi yn
A Fae een nok wy a ie Ye ee IE ee

: , Wa ete Pha Fe
Be ate OR pear ete

beth


Ba.B, ilar! nes ae ye acquitted

STURM, Hermann 20 years . 2 years 1 «pr 48

ACCUSED | 2“. SENTENCE PPROVED safe OF Dare OF EXEOUDR

3 _ SENTENCZ , APPROVAL OF Dern _BENT=NCES
Case 2 000-50 5.32 Cis vs Kar r} FORCICKs et al) Trica 10 Oct 4
_GaERTNER, Karl ti fee Life - 1? May 48 :
GLaS, Johann Ce 20 years - 20 years _ YS May 48 - sce ae
EORCIOK.s, Karl. | Death -- “.Death - - "15 May 4 .
CEROQEGLER, Karl. — Death Death | 1? May 48
HO TdzT. Otto — sequitted ta Sethe a? oa
WIRTH, Johann '3 years ae years 15 May 48

» Caso oy, -000--50..5433 (US ve Heinrich so=ITz et al) Tried 17 Sept 47

GLOZCKIER, mil —«40 yesre -<-40 years’ © 2-98 May 48° <= rata
SCEILLING, andreas® ~ Death ; Life ? 6 June 48
SCIMITZ, Hoim ich 5 years ao bite 15 May 48

Cnrso Mo, 000-£0r.5--86 (Us vs Horst CORNEA) Tried on Oct 47

Se Horst 2 years 35 years - 15 Mar 48 Se

256 Now 000--50.6-87 (US vs Friedrich KURBEL et 21) Tried 6 ave 47
KUSBEL, ‘Friodtich | acquitted 3

€aso Noe 000-650-528 (us vs Eubert RISO: et Pay Tried 27 wuz a7

‘4

~

FRISCH, Hubdert Life Life. ¥ Eee S 20 apr 48 5
MOOBEIG: =L, Josef - 20 years > 20 years “20 spr 48°
peel athe Josef 20 years “20. years | 20 4or 48

Gase No. 000--50..5439 (Us vs Johann SO:TLLR) Prica ie fry 4?

SCEILLER, sonann > 30 years =) years 25, Fob 48

be
-

Fone No. 000..F0-5..40 05.» vs Fabian RIOSIER ae al) Trica ri Sent 47

one. “Yohaniy iie 25 years poe 25 years <3 6/2 hor 4g fr
= pbackree Death ; Death - °° 2 Mar 48 tee a | z

Case Hoe 000-5064) AUS vs eee Sryz) Tried 20 aug a?

| Caso Nos 000-50-5-42 (us vs Georg PIRVER et al) Tried 19 Sent 47

FOLCER, Johann”. —s«Q yrare ‘10 years 8 «pr 48. a
MaDIMAYR, Alois -. 15 years’ - 15 years ~ 8 spr 48
EIRNER, Gore BS 20 years 20 years 8 “pr 48

Gase No, 000.50.5-15 (US vs Franz PAVELA) Tried 26 Sept 47° 7 *

PAVEL4, Franz : : 25 years oe 25 years . 7 or 48 foe ee ane Dw aeky,

te Nets Nt in

: aso Nos 000..50.5-A4 {US vs Paul iso fried 26 Soot 47

TEN SP Ree te ete OE EE

Geno, 2 Paul «Sy Death ae “Te.th - ss re 28 Mar 48

ey


>

2

aSCUSED ©

Caso Nos 000--50--37 (us v¥

sPPROVED

SENTENCE

DaTE OF

PP ROVAL

Dats oF ERRCUTION
OF DEATH SENTENCES -

s arthur Kurt aNDRum et al) Tried BD Dec 47

& 7

ERS te wea Sey 2

et Lee.
+: ae aie ae

RiB, arthur Kurt 20 years 20 years 25 June 48
DRAUNY, Erhard Life Life 25 June 48
BRINKMANN, Otte Life. Life 25 June 48

BUEHRING, Smil “* Life | Life 25 June 48
DETMERS, Heinz 2? years 7-years 25 June 48

“FUCHSLOCE, Josct Acquitted Sig

FRINRICH, Kurt acquitted

HELBIG, Oskar 20 years  .-10 years 25 June 48

JACOBI, Rudolf Life Life 25 June 48
KILIAN, Josef Life Life 25 June 48
KOENIG, Georg: - Life Life -25 June 48
MAISCHSIN, Paul 5 years 5 years 25 June 48
"MOESER, Hans Death Death -25 Zune 48
RICKHSY, Georg Acquitted
SCEMID?, Heinrich Acquitted :

SIMO, “Wilhelm Life Life 25 June 48
ULBRICHT, Walter 5 years 5 years 25 June 48
WALENTA, Richard 20 years. 20 years 25 June .48,
TWIENER, Willi. . 25 youre: 25 years 25 June 48 "
_Gase ‘Nos 0008046 Ce vs Josevh = “3ROXER et al) Tried 22 Jan 47

SECFER, Josof 3 year 1 year ‘to sant 47
BERGER, Franz gi years al years 10 Sept 4% .

: BLOMBERG, Konrad Death Deeth 10 Sent 47 3 Oct 47
BONGARTZ, Peter 15 years 15 years 10 Sent 47 a
BRUSCH, Wilholm Death” i. Life- 10 Sept 47
BUDDENSING, Indwig~ Life - Tife 10 Sept 47
BUTTNER, Karl Acquitted a gee AOR
BISETISCH, * Christian Death Death 10 Seot 47 3 Oct 47

ee. Wad RIBAUER, angust © 15 years 15 years 10 Sept 47. |
. GBISSERGER, Johann Life os pife 10 Sept 47
_S.GELHARDT, Michael . Life . Life 10 Sept 47 ©

_ GIESELMav, Karl acquitted <4 ia :
GINSOXED, August Death Death 10 Seot 47
GRAESER, Karl 10 years 10 years 10 Sept 47
- EBOLD, Gerhard 20 years 20 years “710 Sept 47
‘EsUSER, Josof -Death -.- Death 10 Sent 47 3 Oct 47

HERZ, ‘Betor Acqaitted | 3
HOINISCH, Georg acquitted

_ JaKUBITH, Alois - Life Life 10 Sept 47
| KRILING, Karl Death Life “10 Sept 47
- LIPINSKI, Hans 10 years 10 years 10 Sept, 47
__, LOSCE, Bauard 20 years - 20 years 30 Sept 47
5° MiDHOI, Karl | Life é Life | 10 Sspt 47
- -MaTZKE, Gustav 10 years 10 years 10 Sept 47
. MaURER, Raymond 20 years 30 years -10 Sept 47
~~ MOER, Christian Death Death 10 Sent 47
MUSSFELDT , Erich Life Life -40 Sent 47
_ NEYS, Walter - = 15 years 15 years 10 Sept 47 ~
>. sOLSCHSASKI , Willi - Death. Death 10 Seot 47. 3 Oct 47.
- -PaCHEN, Hormann _ Life Life 10 Seot 47 — .
PaVLICZEkK; Otto “Life Life 10 Sept 47-—
Tae Pane, ‘Erich “Life jTife : 10 Sot 47 .
64


aCCUSED eee “PPROVED
oe SENTENCR

DaTE OF
PPR Va

O258 Mos 000-5046 (os | vs Joseph BESKER et al) Cont

PINTAR, Josef: = Bites 7 Lite
RETZL. FF, ‘Theodor _aegquitted —

REUP SCH, ‘Waltor Zee 20 years.

ROLLER,” albert=<%.** Death « “2: Death 2,
SCHREIBER, Kurt 20 years’, 20 years. ;-
SCHUBERT, Alois Death aia" Life ios
SCHW JANNER, Cornelius) Death ... ‘Daath
SCHWARZ, Ludwig.” Death — Death

_SKIEI ERKA, a 2runo Death .- &— Deathrs,) ©.
SOMMERTELD, Hermann _ -. 15 years ~:~ 15 years.

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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of the Army

SUBJECT : Survey of the Trials of War Crimes Held at Dachau,
Germany

1. Fursuant to Department of the Army orders (Tab A), the under-
signed reported 30 July 1948 to the Commander-in-Chief, European Command,
and informed him of their mission as set forth in those orders and ampli-
fied by Department of the Army radio 85938, 16 July 1948 (Tab B).

2, There were tried at Dachau 89 cases involving 1672 accused.
The following tabulation reflects action taken as of 12 August 19))8:

Number of accused convicted. . 2... + ..s-. 16
Number of accused acquitted. .......-- 256
Number of death sentences approved . ....- 297
Number of death sentences disapproved. .... 10
Number of life sentences approved. ...... 220
Number of disapproved sentences (including 10

diet Benteiogh). . 26.5 8 8 8 AS ee oe OP
Number of sentences reduced ......... 138
Number of death sentences commted...... lig
Number of death sentences executed. ..... 152

In view of the voluminous records (estimated to weigh 123 tons)
appertaining to the trials of war crims at Dachau, it was determined,
after consultation with the Commander-in-Chief, European Command, to
direct the survey principally but not exclusively to that portion of
the records (65 cases) involving the 139 confirmed death sentences
(anderecored on Tab C) which remain unexecuted.

3. In the course of this survey there has been examined, in
connection with-each approved and unexecuted death sentence, the Review
of the Deputy Judge Advocate for iiar Crimes, the recommendations of the
Chief, War Crimes Branch, the recommendations of the War Crimes Boards of
Review, and the recommendations of the Judge Advocate, European Command,
both with reference to the original proceeding as well as any petition for
review or clemhcy subsequently filed. It would not have been possible to
have made an examination of the entire record in each case within the time
alloted; and, in view of the information furnished by the Chief, War
Crimes Branch, (Tab D) and confirmed by the Judge Advocate, European Com-
mand, this was not necessary to accomplish this mission. The assumption
made with reference to the correctness of the facts as stated inthe re-
views has been verified by a complete examination of the record in doubt-
ful cases including, but not limited to, those in which the claim has
been advanced that prosecution evidence was improperly obtained by pre-
trial investigation or otherwise.

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4h, Based upon the examination made and additional information
from other sources, including interviews with persons connected in
varying ways with the war crimes program (Tab E), it is the opinion
of the undersigned that:
(a) The unexecuted confirmed death sentences

resulting from the Dachau war crimes trials are based

upon records which, under the procedures prescribed in

Title 54 Military Government Regulations (Tab F) as

modified by Manual for Trial of War Crimes and Related

Cases (Tab G), reflect that the trials were essentially

fair. .

(b) There was no general or syStematic use of
improper methods to secure prosecution evidence for use
at the trials, .

(c) Except as to those referred to in Tab H,
no reason is perceived why the death sentences under
consideration should not be executed.

5. It is recomnended that:

(a) Clemency be extended to the persons listed
in Tab H to the extent and for the reasons there stated.

(b) Pending the completion of the execution of .

sentences involving death, the system presently in opera

tion in the Office of the Judge Advocate, European Con-

mand, for the consideration of petitions for clemency be
continued; that upon completion of the execution of the

death» sentences, the Commander—in-Chief, European Com-

mand, establish a clemency program for the consideration

of sentences of prisoners convicted in War Crimes cases,

6. In compliance with paragraph 2 of the applicable orders (Tab A)
the Commander-in-Chief, European Command, has been informed of the
substance of this report,

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