'Dachau Trials' Trials by U.S. Army Courts in Europe 1945 - 1948
File Number:
US421
Review Date: 480218 Case Number: 000-50-5-21 (US vs Josef Kattner et al) Crime Category: War Crimes, NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers
Accused:
Brandt, Olf* - 3 Years (st. 450508) Czuniak, Josef - neither served nor tried
Gerbig, Emil - Acquittal Kattner, Josef - Acquittal Kleinguenther, Otto Friedrich - Death Sentence Lothaller, Johann - Acquittal Malleschits, Stefan -10 Years (st. 450508) Wohlrab, Christian - Death Sentence Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany,
470817-470909 Country where the crime had been committed: Austria Crime Location: KL Mauthausen (satellite camps KL Mauthausen), KL
Loiblpass, KL Gusen, KL Eisenerz, KL Linz, KL Melk, KL Gross Raming, KL
Schlier; evacuation march from KL Mauthausen to Gunskirchen (April 1945) Crime Date: 420101-450505 Victim: Prisoners, POW's, Jews Nationality: Polish, Soviet Czechoslovakian, Austrian, Hungarian,
German, Greek, Yugoslavian, French, unknown Agency: Detainment Center Staff KL Mauthausen, KL Loiblpass, KL Gusen,
KL Eisenerz, KL Linz, KL Melk, KL Gross Raming, KL Schlier Subject of the proceeding: Performing guard and supervisory duties in
the concentration camps as well as on the evacuation march, thereby
participating in the subjection of POW's and civilian nationals of nations at
war with Germany to cruelties and mistreatment. Participation in the 'mercy
killing' of sick prisoners by the administration of lethal (gasoline)
injections and by gassings. Escorting prisoners to the Hartheim 'mercy
killing' extermination center, shooting of exhausted prisoners during the
evacuation march