Defendant Menne Saathoff at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- Defendant Menne Saathoff 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
- Menne Saathoff was born in 1914 in Akelsberg, Germany near Hannover. In October of 1934, he volunteered for the Waffen-SS, was made a guard at Esterwegen, and later joined the Nazi Party in 1940. From July 1939 until January 1943, he was a Blockfuehrer and then a Zugfuehrer in the guard battalion at Sachsenhausen, during which time he took an active part in the mistreatment and execution of Soviet prisoners. From 1939 to 1940, he personally shot five prisoners who had been sent to Sachsenhausen by the Berlin Gestapo, and took part in the torture of at least one hundred and fifty more prisoners. Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to life in prison with forced labor.
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