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

File Number:
US406
Review Date:
480228
Case Number: 000-50-5-4 (US vs Kaspar Goetz et al)
Crime Category: War Crimes, NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers
Accused:

Goetz, Kaspar - Life Sentence
Guenther, Fritz Karl - 25 Years (st. 450610)
Kopischke, Otto - Life Sentence
Lehrbacher, Gustav - 20 Years (st. 450505)
Meyer, Ernst - Life Sentence
Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany, 470724-470729
Country where the crime had been committed: Austria
Crime Location: KL Mauthausen, (satellite camps of KL Mauthausen) KL Bretstein, KL St. Lambrecht, KL Wiener-Neudorf, KL Ebensee, KL Gusen, KL Gross-Raming, KL Dippoldsau; prisoners' transport from KL Dippoldsau to KL Mauthausen (28 August 1944)
Crime Date: 420101-450505
Victim: Prisoners, Gypsies
Nationality: Yugoslav, unknown
Agency: Detainment Center Staff KL Mauthausen, Bretstein, St. Lambrecht, Wiener-Neudorf, Ebensee, Gusen, Gross-Raming, Dippoldsau; Prisoner Functionary KL Mauthausen, Dippoldsau
Subject of the proceeding: Performing guard and supervisory duties in the concentration camps as well as on the prisoners' transport, thereby participating in the subjection of POW's and civilian nationals of nations at war with Germany to cruelties and mistreatment. (Fatal) mishandlings and shootings of prisoners