Defendant Karl Zander at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Overview
- Caption
- Defendant Karl Zander 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
- Karl Zander was born in 1887 in Brandenburg, Germany. Between February 1941 and March 1943 he worked in the crematoria in Sachsenhausen and took part in mass shootings and hangings, including the killing of four thousand Soviet POWs and three thousand others. From March 1943 until the end of the war, he was the Blockaeltester in Block 17 of the camp, taking part in the torture and beating deaths of prisoners. Following his trial by a Soviet Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison with forced labor.
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