Saturday, June 25, 2016

Pencil sketches of Nazis by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

 Dr FRIDOLIN PUHR

Dr Fridolin Karl puhr was a SS captain And a medical doctor. Initially he opted to German air force I.e Luftwaffe. However in 1944 he was found to have a heart problem and declared not fit for active service.  he was posted to dachau   concentration camp on 15 DEC 1944. He was taken in to custody by American troops on 26 April 1945 when the camp was liberated. He was tried in the case of US vs Gottfried Weiss in a group of 42 accused by US military tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and was sentenced to death. Later it was reduced to 20 years.  it was  again reduced to 10 years imprisonment. But he was released due to lack of evidence in 1950.After release, he stayed at prison to be the jail medical officer for the. Nazi inmates in the prison. Later he left the job and was employed in a large shipyard as a medical doctor. No further details of him are known after 1954.

FREIDRICH WETZEL

Freidrich  Witzel  Strum bann fuehrer was a supply officer at Dachau concentration camp during WW II. After war, he was arrested and tried by Us military tribunal in a group of 42 members in the case of US vs Martin Gottfried Weiss held at Dachau camp. He was charged for war crimes although apparently he was not involved in murders. The defense pleaded that he was soft and innocent and food supplied was short leading to starvation a of inmates where the. Camp senior officers embezzled funds  ; yet he was sentenced to death for being the member of Dachau team with common design the new found term by allied courts.. He  was hanged on 29 may 1946 at landesberg prison

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