On
this date, May 31, 1946, the Stutthof Trials ended. I will post the information
about the trials from Wikipedia.
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Female guards of the Stutthof concentration
camp at a trial in Gdańsk between April 25 and May 31, 1946. First row (from
left): Elisabeth Becker, Gerda Steinhoff, Wanda Klaff. Second row: Erna
Beilhardt, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
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Stutthof trial
was a war crime tribunal held at Gdańsk, Poland, from April 25, 1946, to May
31, 1946, where the joint Soviet/Polish Special Criminal Court tried and convicted
of crimes against humanity a group of thirteen ex-officials and overseers of
the Stutthof concentration camp and Bromberg-Ost. The accused were arraigned
before the court and all found guilty. Eleven were sentenced to death, including
the commandant of the guards Johann Pauls, while the remainder were sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment. The death sentences were executed on July 4,
1946 at Biskupia Górka.
The
commandant of the Stutthof and Neuengamme concentration camps Max Pauly was
sentenced to death in Germany. Pauly was tried by the British for war crimes
with thirteen others in the Curio Haus in Hamburg which was located in the
British occupied sector of Germany. The trial lasted from March 18, 1946 to May
13, 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced to death with 11 other defendants.
He was executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin prison on October
8, 1946.
List
of accused at the first Stutthof Trial
- Johann Pauls: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Gerda Steinhoff: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Kapo Josef Reiter: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Wanda Klaff: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Erna Beilhardt: sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
- Kapo Waclaw Kozlowski: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Jenny-Wanda Barkmann: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Kapo Fanciszek Szopinski: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Ewa Paradies: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Kapo Kazimierz Kowalski: sentenced to 3 years imprisonment
- Jan Breit: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Kapo Tadeusz Kopczynski: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
- Elisabeth Becker: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
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