'Dachau Trials'
Trials by U.S. Army Courts in Europe 1945 - 1948

File Number: US053
Review Date: 471218
Case Number: 12-658 (US vs. Otto Behme et al)
Crime Category: War Crimes
Accused:
Behme, Otto - Acquittal
Feldmeier, Waldemar - Death Sentence
Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany 471105
Country where the crime had been committed: Germany
Crime Location: Helmstedt
Crime Date: 440530
Victim: POW
Nationality: American
Agency: NSDAP, Ortsgruppenleiter, Kreisleiter; Civil Administration, Mayor of Lelm
Subject of the proceeding: After parachuting out of his airplane near Lelm, an American airman was mistreated by members of a German bomb disposal squad, then taken to the Landrat's office in Helmstedt and subsequently shot and killed in a forest nearby, on orders of a Gendarmerie captain

Notes: Regarding Feldmeier see also US225 (Case No.12-2305)