A group
of six members of Majdanek personnel – who had not managed to escape – were
arraigned before the Soviet-Polish Special Criminal Court immediately following
the camp's liberation of July 23, 1944. After the trial, and deliberations
which lasted from November 27, 1944 to December 2, 1944 all accused were found
guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and sentenced to
death by hanging. They included SS-Obersturmführer Anton Thernes, SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Gerstenmeier, SS-Oberscharführer Hermann Vögel, Kapo Edmund Pohlmann, SS-Rottenführer
Theodor Schöllen and Kapo Heinrich Stalp, all of whom were executed by
hanging on December 3, 1944 except for Pohlmann, who had committed suicide the
night before.
Please
go to this previous blog post to learn about the Deputy
Camp Commandant, Anton Thernes.
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The first judicial trial of the Nazi officials at
the Majdanek extermination camp took place from November 27, 1944, to December
2, 1944 in Lublin, Poland. In this photograph, Anton Thernes, standing on the
left at his trial.
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