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

File Number: US156
Review Date: 470611
Case Number: 12-1911 (US vs. Hermann Brueckner et al)
Crime Category: War Crimes
Accused:
Boernschein, Arno Otto - Acquittal
Brueckner, Hermann Gustav Adolf - Life Sentence
Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany 470310-470312
Country where the crime had been committed: Germany
Crime Location: Buttstadt (Kreis Weimar)
Crime Date: 440729
Victim: POW
Nationality: American
Agency: Police, auxiliary police
Subject of the proceeding: An American airman parachuted to safety near Buttstadt and immediately surrendered to a farmer. He was escorted to a police station and placed in the custody of the accused. While transporting the airman to Weimar, the accused Brueckner shot and killed the victim in a wheat field