He was tried in 1947 ( Dachau Trials ) and sentenced to death, but died in September 1948 of a heart condition before sentence could be carried out.

Category: Dachau Trials

Stevens also helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials.

The massacre, as well as others committed by the same unit on the same day and following days, was the subject of the Malmedy massacre trial, part of the Dachau Trials of 1946.

It was also the site of the Dachau Trials, a site chosen for its symbolism.

) – was one of the Dachau Trials, which took place from May 16, 1946 to July 16, 1946.

After he was sentenced to death at the Dachau Trials, Schallermair was hanged at Landsberg in 1951.

He was sentenced to death by the Dachau Trials for killing five American POWs.

These war criminals had been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity at the Dachau Trials which had begun a month earlier.

Following Germany's defeat, Stroop was sentenced to death for war crimes by a US military tribunal during the Dachau Trials in 1947.

He was then put on trial by the U. S. Military Tribunal at Dachau ( Dachau Trials ) for the summary executions of Allied airmen ( Fliegermorde ), shot down over Germany in his field of command.

Category: People convicted in the Dachau Trials

* Dachau Trials

The most widespread assumption is that this practice was first established under international humanitarian law at the trial in 1947 of the planner and commander of Operation Greif, Otto Skorzeny, by the military court at the Dachau Trials.

Unlike the International Military Trials in Nuremberg that prosecuted the major Nazi war criminals under the jurisdiction of the four Allied Occupying Powers, the Dachau tribunals were held exclusively by the United States Military between November 1945 and August 1948.

* The Dachau Camp Trials: 40 officials were tried ; 36 of the defendants were sentenced to death on 13 December 1945.

* The Mauthausen Camp Trials: 61 officials of this camp were tried by a U. S. military court at Dachau in March / April, 1946 ; 58 defendants were sentenced to death on 11 May 1946.

His deadly experiments on humans, planned and executed in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, were judged inhumane and criminal during the Nuremberg Trials.

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners were murdered.

Famous people who lived, worked or were born in Dachau include

The first concentration camps were under the direct command of SS – Polizei-führer Globocnik, and operated by SS Police battalions and Trawnikis — volunteers from Eastern Europe ; whereas the SS-Totenkopfverbände managed the Nazi Concentration Camps such as Dachau and Ravensbrück.

These differed from concentration camps, such as Dachau and Belsen, which were initially prison camps for people defined as socially or politically undesirable in Nazi society.

The principal locales were Dachau and Auschwitz.

In early 1942, prisoners at Dachau concentration camp were used by Rascher in experiments to perfect ejection seats at high altitudes.

Anti-Semitic laws were being introduced and the first concentration camp at Dachau had been established.

More than 30, 000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps ; primarily Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.

Most of the men were arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, but were released after they had furnished proof that they intended to emigrate.

Otto's cousins Max, Duke of Hohenberg, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg were arrested in Vienna by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau concentration camp where they remained throughout the Nazi rule.

By the end of 1933 the first Nazi concentration camps had been erected ( at Dachau, Osthofen, Oranienburg, Sonnenburg, Lichtenburg and the marshland camps around Esterwegen ); all remaining prisoners who had been held in so-called protective custody in state prisons were transferred to these concentration camps.

McCown noted that neither he nor his men were threatened in any manner, and he testified in Peiper's defense during the 1946 trial in Dachau.

Haushofer admits that after 1933 much of what he wrote was distorted under duress: his wife had to be protected by Hess's influence ( who managed to have her awarded ' honorary German ' status ); his son was implicated in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed by the Gestapo ; he himself was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for eight months ; and his son and grandson were imprisoned for two-and-a-half months.

In France, between 3, 000 and 6, 000 Roma were deported to Dachau, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, and other camps.

A number of former German soldiers of the 216th Marine-Flak-Abeitlung ( Naval Flak Battalion ) were tried for war crimes by the Dachau International Military Tribunal, from February 6 to March 21, 1946 ( US v Kurt Goebell et al .).

Among the inmates were also the Norwegian resisters Per Jacobsen who died there, Tor Njaa en route, and Charles Delestraint, leader of the Armée Secrète who died later in Dachau.

By the time of WWII, people were dying from starvation, untreated disease and murder in Germany and Austria, at places such as Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen-Gusen.

Unlike the camps such as Dachau or Auschwitz, no electric fences were used, as camp inmate numbers remained relatively low.

However, it was later renamed because documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal linked Strughold to medical experiments in which inmates from Dachau were tortured and killed.

As an officer he was given better treatment than most of the 22, 000 inmates of Flossenburg, who were forcibly evacuated on the 220 km death march to Dachau concentration camp, during which one third died.

The next day, as the Americans were approaching Dachau, he and 30 other officers were taken by bus to Innsbruck, where he was held in the Straflager.

On 24 April 1945, Churchill was taken from Dachau over the Brenner Pass to Villabassa ( Niederdorf in the Tyrol ), together with many other prominent concentration camp inmates from different countries, where the SS left the prisoners behind as American forces were approaching.