Defendant Wilhelm Schubert at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- Defendant Wilhelm Schubert 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
- Wilhelm Schubert was born in 1917 in Magdeburg, and volunteered for the Waffen-SS in 1936, joining the SS-Totenkopf Brigade (later the Totenkopf Division). He joined the Nazi Party in 1938 and from May of that year until April 1942 he was a Blockfuehrer in Sachsenhausen. At the end of 1939 he took part in the shooting of thirty-three Poles, and from September to November 1941 he took part in the extermination of Soviet POWs and civilians. He was said to have personally shot five hundred and ten prisoners, as well as brutally mistreated, tortured, and whipped many others. Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to life in prison with forced labor.
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