He was a
Nazi SS functionary at Sachsenhausen concentration camp . he was arrested after
the world war when the camp was liberated by allies. he was tried at
sachsenhausen trials at Berlin also called Berlin trials By A Soviet military
court. He was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to life term in prison
with force labor. He was sent to a coal mine in USSR on polar sea to work along
with other defendants.He was released in 1956 by soviets as amnesty was granted
and he went to West Germany.
arrested and put on trial Sept 1960 by a West German court at Düsseldorf on
charges of executing at least 200 Soviet POWs subjected to "special
treatment" ('Sonderbehandlung'), of shooting 27 prisoners in the
crematorium, of participating in the shooting of 82 prisoners on the night of
31 Jan-1 Feb 1945, of killing 2,000 ill prisoners during the course of the
evacuation of KL Sachsenhausen in Apr 1945, and shooting 230 Jewish prisoners
who had been evacuated from KL Lieberose convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment
(lebenslänglich) 15 Oct 1960
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