'Dachau Trials' Trials by U.S. Army Courts in Europe 1945 - 1948
File Number:
US409
Review Date: 480123 Case Number: 000-50-5-8 (US vs Willi Auerswald et al) Crime Category: War Crimes, NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers
Accused:
Auerswald, Willi - Death Sentence Freyholdt, Hans - 15 Years (st. 450508)
Fernandez, Moses - neither served nor tried Fusten, Hermann - Death Sentence Heess, Otto - Life Sentence
Kolbe, Karl - 5 Years (st. 450506) Kuehn, Werner - Life Sentence (R&R: 3 Years; st. 470717) Schiller, Alwin - 10 Years (st. 450508) Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany,
470702-470717 Country where the crime had been committed: Austria Crime Location: KL Mauthausen, (satellite camps of KL Mauthausen) KL
Steyr, KL St. Aegyd, KL St. Lambrecht Crime Date: 420101-450505 Victim: Prisoners, Jews, POW's Nationality: Spanish, Polish, Soviet, Italian, Yugoslav, Czech, unknown Agency: Detainment Center Staff KL Mauthausen, Steyr, St. Aegyd, St.
Lambrecht Subject of the proceeding: Performing guard and supervisory duties in
the concentration camps, thereby
participating in the subjection of POW's and civilian nationals of nations at
war with Germany to cruelties and mistreatment. Mishandling and killing of
prisoners