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

File Number: US101
Review Date: unknown
Case Number: 12-1299 (US vs. Friedrich Salzmann et al)
Crime Category: War Crimes
Accused:
Anding, Wilhelm - Life Sentence
Salzmann, Friedrich - Death Sentence
Schneider, Walter - Life Sentence
Singer, Albert - Death Sentence
Court: General Military Government Court at Ludwigsburg, Germany 460405- 460424
Country where the crime had been committed: Germany
Crime Location: Schwickershausen
Crime Date: 441001
Victim: POW’s
Nationality: American
Agency: Police; Gendarmerie
Subject of the proceeding: Three American flyers parachuted to safety in the vicinity of Schwickershausen. They were taken prisoner and escorted to the office of the burgomeister of Schwickershausen, where they were interrogated, searched and placed under the guard of the gendarmerie. They were taken away and shot in the woods on their way to Bibra