A defendant (probably Michael Koerner) speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- A defendant (probably Michael Koerner) speaks from 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
- Michael Koerner joined the Hitler Youth in 1931 and joined the SA and the Nazi Party in February 1933, becoming part of the SS-Totenkopf Brigade (later the Totenkopf Division) in 1935. In September 1944 he became a Lagerfuehrer in Sachsenhausen, where between October 1944 and April 1945, he took part in the hanging of thirteen prisoners and the shooting of two hundred and twenty-two. Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to life in prison with forced labor.
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- 2010-04-26 00:00:00
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