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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