Defendant Horst Hempel at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- Defendant Horst Hempel 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
- Horst Hempel was born in 1910 in Koenigsburg, Germany. He volunteered for the SS in 1933, four years before joining the Nazi Party. From November 1939 until May 1940 he was a member of the guard battalion and then a Blockfuehrer at Sachsenhausen. From the second half of 1941until 1942 he took part in the mass execution of eighteen hundred Soviet POWs, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class. He later took part in the systematic shooting and hanging of prisoners, and in the fall of 1944 he took part in the gassing of Soviets and Poles. Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to life in prison with forced labor.
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