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

File Number: US081
Review Date: 480129
Case Number: 12-1140 (US vs. Heinrich Rixen)
Crime Category: War Crimes
Accused:
Rixen, Heinrich - Death Sentence
Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany 471203-471204
Country where the crime had been committed: Germany
Crime Location: Springe
Crime Date: 441126
Victim: POW
Nationality: Canadian
Agency: Wehrmacht
Subject of the proceeding: On 26 November 1944, an unidentified Canadian flyer parachuted to the ground near Springe, Germany. The accused, a convalescent inmate of a military hospital, set out after the injured flyer. Armed with a rifle and shot and killed the airman while escorting him to a nearby hospital