'Dachau Trials' Trials by U.S. Army Courts in Europe 1945 - 1948
File Number:
US423
Review Date: 480415 Case Number: 000-50-5-23 (US vs Franz Kofler et al) Crime Category: War Crimes, NS-Crimes in Detainment Centers
Accused: Buchmann, Paul Robert - served but not tried Buetgen, Hermann Franz - 3 Years (st. 451014)
Dworsky, Ferruccio - neither served nor tried Flaucher, Quirin - Death Sentence
Hehl, Filipp - neither served nor tried Heller, Michael - Death Sentence Kofler, Franz - Death Sentence Lennert, Stefan - Acquittal Petrat, Gustav - Death Sentence Reuter, Arno Albert - 2 Years (st. 450610) Thielmann, Emil - Life Sentence Court: General Military Government Court at Dachau, Germany,
470807-470821 Country where the crime had been committed: Austria Crime Location: KL Mauthausen, (satellite camps KL Mauthausen) KL
Gross-Raming, KL Linz, KL Schlier (Redl Zipf), KL Gusen; evacuation march from
KL Mauthausen to Gunskirchen (April 1945) Crime Date: 420101-450505 Victim: Prisoners, POW's, Jews Nationality: Dutch, Yugoslavian, Belgian, French, Soviet, Polish,
German, Czechoslovakian, Austrian, Hungarian, American, British, Canadian,
Italian, Swedish, unknown Agency: Detainment Center Staff KL Mauthausen, KL Gross-Raming, KL
Linz, KL Schlier (Redl Zipf), KL Gusen; Prisoner
Functionary Subject of the proceeding: Performing guard and supervisory duties in
the concentration camps as well as on the evcauation march, thereby
participating in the subjection of POW's and civilian nationals of nations at
war with Germany to cruelties and mistreatment. Mishandling (partly fatal) of
prisoners. Killing of prisoners by shooting and by chasing them into the
electric fence and by gassing. Killing of prisoners at the Vienna Ditch
(Wiener Graben). Shooting of exhausted prisoners during the evacuation march