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View of the courtroom at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 33601
View of the courtroom at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin. The defendants are pictured at the left, their lawyers in the middle, and spectators at the right.

View of the courtroom at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.

The defendants are pictured at the left, their lawyers in the middle, and spectators at the right.

Date
1947 October 23 - 1947 November 01
Locale
Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale
Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Designation
PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Concentration Camp/Atrocity Trials -- Polish/Soviet Trials -- Sachsenhausen -- Trial
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Central Archive of the Federal Security Service

About This Photograph

Event History
On October 23, 1947 fifteen former Sachsenhausen concentration camp personnel and one former prisoner were brought to trial before a Soviet Military Tribunal in Berlin. Among the defendants were Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The findings were announced on November 1, 1947 after only a brief trial. All sixteen were found guilty. Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in prison with forced labor.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Central Archive of the Federal Security Service
Source Record ID: Collections: RG-06.025*26
Second Record ID: KGB Archives: N-19092, Appendix - - file 2294
 
Record last modified: 2003-03-28 00:00:00
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