Defendant Gustav Sorge at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- Defendant Gustav Sorge at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
The man on the right has been identified as Wilhelm Schubert. - 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
- Gustav Sorge was an ethnic German, who was born in 1911 in Reinicken, Poland, near Poznan. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and the Waffen-SS in 1934, and from the fall of 1937 until the end of the war, he was active in the concentration camp system. From November of 1937 until June of 1942 he was a labor leader or "Rapportfuehrer" in Sachsenhausen, where his brutal treatment of prisoners earned him the name "Iron Gustav." He also oversaw the mass execution, imprisonment, and torture of many prisoners. From 1941 to 1942, he oversaw the execution of Soviet POWs and other prisoners, and in the spring of 1942 he was responsible for starving to death four hundred Russians in the isolation barracks. Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to life in prison with forced labor.
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