View of the judges bench of the Dachau trial. A large American flag hangs behind them.
Overview
- Caption
- View of the judges bench of the Dachau trial. A large American flag hangs behind them.
Interpreters for the defense sit at the table to the right of the judges. Among those pictured is Otto Ludwig Stein, third from the left, a 20 year old Sargeant in the US Army. Otto was a Jewish refugee that left Berlin in 1939 and immigrated to the United States. He joined the Army in 1944 and was given the choice of going to Europe or the Pacific, he chose Europe. - Date
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1945 November 15 - 1945 December 13
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Vincent Paul Donaghue
- Event History
- The Dachau concentration camp trial opened on November 2, 1945 in Dachau, Germany. Forty individuals who had participated in the operation of the Dachau concentration camp were charged with the murder and mistreatment of foreign nationals imprisoned there. Among those charged were Martin Gottfried Weiss, the camp commandant from 1942-1943; Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, an SS physician who was brought to Dachau to find a method of immunizing people against malaria; and three former prisoners. The trial lasted from November 15 to December 13, 1945, with seventy witnesses called for the prosecution and fifty witnesses called for the defense. All forty defendants were found guilty, with thirty-six being sentenced to death by hanging (including Weiss and Schilling), one sentenced to hard labor for life, and three sentenced to hard labor for ten years. A few of the sentences were reduced after a review board determined the defendants were involved to a lesser degree than originally believed, but most were upheld. Weiss was executed on May 29, 1946 and Schilling on May 28, 1946, both in Landsberg Prison.
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Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Vincent Paul DonaghueSource Record ID: Collections: 2004.536
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