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Handwritten letter from defendent Claus Schilling to Dalwin J. Niles, his appointed defense attorney in the Dachau Trials,

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    Handwritten letter from defendent Claus Schilling to Dalwin J. Niles, his appointed defense attorney in the Dachau Trials,
    Handwritten letter from defendent Claus Schilling to Dalwin J. Niles, his appointed defense attorney in the Dachau Trials, The body of the letter reads, "I beg you not to insist on acting for my innocense [sic]. I whish [sic] to die. The life I live now in prison is no life. If theCourt is inclined to do me a favour, let me have a quick an painless death."

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    Handwritten letter from defendent Claus Schilling to Dalwin J. Niles, his appointed defense attorney in the Dachau Trials,

    The body of the letter reads, "I beg you not to insist on acting for my innocense [sic]. I whish [sic] to die. The life I live now in prison is no life. If theCourt is inclined to do me a favour, let me have a quick an painless death."
    Date
    1946 February 06
    Locale
    Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
    Variant Locale
    Landsberg Am Lech
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Family of Dalwin J. Niles
    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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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Family of Dalwin J. Niles

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