Defendant Ludwig Rehn stands in the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- Defendant Ludwig Rehn stands in the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
- Date
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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 Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Central Archive of the Federal Security Service
- 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.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007776.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Central Archive of the Federal Security ServiceSource Record ID: Collections: RG-06.025*26Second Record ID: KGB Archives: N-19092, Appendix - - file 2294
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve Standarte in 1939. At the beginning of 1940 he was brought into the concentration camp system, serving in several camps in various positions, including a stint as a work leader in Sachsenhausen from August 1943 until April 1945. Rehn took part in the mass execution of Soviet POWs and civilians of German-occupied nations, and, on his own initiative, he selected prisoners who were unable to work for transfer to other concentration camps for extermination. He was also responsible for the mistreatment of prisoners by assigning punishment to those in the so-called "Schuhlaeuferkommando." Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to life in prison with forced labor.
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