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Post by dylan » 13 Nov 2007, 15:51

Hi

Trial 22 Jan- 14 feb 1947.

Robert Muller 2/08/1908 ,Johannes Lehmann 1/04/1898
Wilhelm Brockmeyer 23/08/1900 All Acquittal.
Karl Roehkasse 8/01/1892 5 Years.
Max Martin 12/01/1891 20 Years.
Willi Jahn 27/03/1909 Life Sentence.

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Post by ansata1976 » 16 Apr 2009, 13:17

Brno/Zlin Gestapo
Brno Gestapo Chief Hugo Romer, believed to have given instructions for the murders of Kirby-Green and Kidder, disappeared. Kriminalrat Hans Ziegler, Gestapo Chief of Moravia, arranged the killing of S/L Tim Kirby-Green and F/O Kidder, which was done by Erich Zacharias (arrested in Fallersleben, also after having been given away by his deserted wife) and Adolf Knippelberg (arrested in Czechoslovakia), with drivers Friedrich Kiowsky (arrested in Prague by the Czechs) and Schwartzer. Knippelberg, Hauptsturmfuhrer Franz Schauschutz (arrested in Austria) and Zacharias were recognised from a painted mural in a dubious wartime Gestapo night club. The Czechs executed Schwarzer and Kiowsky in 1947. Ziegler committed suicide in the London Cage (Cockfosters) on 3-Feb-48. Zacharias, described by Lt. Col. Scotland as "without doubt the most uncivilised, brutal, and morally indecent character in the entire story" was hanged at Hameln on 27-Feb-48. Knippelberg was captured by the Russians; released in 1945, he disappeared.
Wilhelm Nolle was arrested 10-Jun-48 but was not tried; Otto Koslowsky was executed by the Czechs in 1947.


Breslau Gestapo

Standartenfuhrer Seetzen was involved with the Breslau Sicherheitsdienst, and arrested in Hamburg on September 28th 1945, after identification by former colleagues. He bit on a cyanide capsule whilst being taken for interrogation, and died within minutes.

Obersturmbannfuhrer Max Wielen, Breslau Gestapo Chief, was sentenced to life imprisonment on 3-Sep-47 but only served a few years before being released.

Gestapo Chief Dr Wilhelm Scharpwinkel was masquerading as a Lt Hagamann in the No 6 Hospital at Breslau when Frau Gerda Zembrodt, corroborated by Klaus Lonsky, saw Russian officers remove him at gunpoint. During the enquiry into the murders, the Russians refused to co-operate with the Allied investigation, although after much prodding they allowed Scharpwinkel to make a statement, in Moscow, during August and September 1946. Soon afterwards, Scharpwinkel disappeared and although reported dead by the Russians on 17-Oct-47, was believed to have found a high position in the Soviet administration.

He and his associate Lux murdered Cross, Casey, Wiley, Leigh, Pohe and Hake. The next day Lux executed Humphries, McGill, Swain, Hall, Langford, Evans, Valenta, Kolanowski, Stewart and Birkland. The day after that, he executed Kiewnarski, Pawluk, Wernham and Skanzikas. On April 6th, Lux murdered Grisman, J E Williams, Milford, Street and McGarr. Long followed soon after. Lux is also believed to have killed Tobolski and Krol, who vanished in the same area as the others. Lux, with at least twenty-seven murders on his soul, died in the fighting around Breslau at the end of the war. Gunn, killed at Breslau, is likely to have been another of their victims.

Krimilalkommissar Dr Gunther Absalon investigated the escape and poked around at Sagan for some weeks. He chaired the German enquiry into the Escape and collected evidence. It is not clear what happened to him or whether or not he was involved in the murder conspiracy. Absalon, seen alive and well in Breslau in May 1946, was reported to me as (a) being hanged and (b) having died in a Russian prison in May 1948.

Soon after 1948 the investigators caught up with Erwin Wieczorek had been involved with the killing of Cross, Casey, Leigh, Wiley, Poole and Hake. He was sentenced to death but later the sentence was quashed.

Richard Haensel was acquitted on 6-Nov-48; Dankert and Kreuzer disappeared. Kiske, Knappe, Kuhnel, Pattke and Lang were killed in the Breslau fighting. Lauffer committed suicide. Prosse died in 1944 after an unsuccessful stomach operation. Hampel was not tried, and Schroeder was a material witness.
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Post by Bjørn from Norway » 16 Apr 2009, 16:44

Hello!

Something about those that are mentioned here, and who served in Norway:

Bruns, Richard Wilhelm Hermann [Kriminalsekretaer] -- service, occupied Norway {put on trial 20 Mar 1946 by a Norwegian court (Eidsivating Lagmannsrett) on charges of murder and torture of Norwegian citizens during the occupation; acquitted of murder but convicted of torture and sentenced to death by firing squad; subsequent fate unknown (Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals, The United Nations War Crimes Commission, Volume III, London, HMSO, 1948; History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 530, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948; Holo. Ency. 1513).}

[i]Bruns, b. 28.6.1900 in Hannover, Ustuf & Kriminalobersekretär in 1945. Executed by firing squad at Akershus fortress in Oslo 20.9.1947 together with Schubert. Both had tried to commit suicide after their appeal was denied 19.9.1947, together with Clemens, but only the latter succeeded in that.[/i]

Wagner, Wilhelm Arthur :Head of Section IV (b) of the Security Police in Norway. Tried bv a Norwegian (Lagmannsret) court in October. 1946. for the deportation and inhumane ‘treatment of jews. Sentenced to death; sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the Norwegian Supreme Court, 30.4.47.

Wagner, SS Hstuf / SD in 1945, b. 26.12.1909 in Altenkirchen. Released on the 21th December 1951, and extradicted to Germany on the 18th January 1952.

Klinge, Karl-Hans – German police officer {put on trial by a Norwegian court for torture and murder during the German occupation of Norway; convicted and sentenced to death 27 Feb 1946 (Holo. Ency. 1513; History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 532, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948); subsequent fate unknown.}

[i]Klinge, SS Oberscharführer and Kriminalassistent in 1945, b. 14.1.1909 in Hamburg was executed at Akershus fortress in Oslo 28.3.1946.[/i]
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Post by J. Duncan » 31 May 2009, 00:25

Wow! You posted Rudolf Hoss (Commandant of Auschwitz) just before the rope is placed around his neck! very rare picture indeed....he is the man leaning slightly backwards in heavy padded coat, center of frame. Good work.

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Post by J. Duncan » 31 May 2009, 00:27

I think that's also Arthur Greiser of Poland hanging to lower left of Hoss...definately Rudolf Hoss however.

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Post by ansata1976 » 31 May 2009, 13:09

This is correct. The first two pictures are: Pfitzner and Karl Hermann Frank, Than Anton Dostler before his execution in Italy,the rest are ecexutions in Landsberg prison.

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Post by ansata1976 » 03 Jun 2009, 00:08

Has anyone dates of this men:

Friedrich Kiowsky
Otto Koslowsky

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Post by danyb » 03 Sep 2016, 12:13

danyb wrote:hello !

here is the names of the defendants who are tried with karl winkler (lahde-weser trial);
have you got the dates of trial and the sentences of each man ??

robert muller
karl roehkasse
max martin
willi jahn
wilhelm bruns
wilhelm brockmeyer
johannes lehmann


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Lahde-Weser Case.WO.235/377

what is the sentence against Wilhelm Bruns ??

Thanks
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Post by Norbert Jahn » 14 Nov 2018, 04:27

Hi just asking anyone if they know where I can get more info on Willi Jahn? I've tried Kew archives in the UK but they want 200 pounds for Willi Jahn's records of his trial as a war criminal. Thanking you in advance.

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Post by steve248 » 14 Nov 2018, 09:58

AEL LAHDE-WESER trial
British Military Court, 1st British Corps District, sentences of 14 Feb 1947, Wuppertal: (proceedings 22 Jan-14 Feb 1947)

They were all charged with “Committing a War Crime in that they at Lahde-Weser between the years 1943 and 1945, when members of the staff of Lahde-Weser Arbeitserziehungs Lager, in violation of the Laws and Usages of War, were concerned in the killing and ill-treatment of Allied nationals interned therein.”

Karl WINKLER
Death sentence
27 March 1947, sentence confirmed
22 April 1947, final judgment promulgated
11 Oct 1947, commuted to 20 years
7 Sept 1958, expected release date
Winkler was Lagerführer, 1943-1945
> in Dec 1944 a shot-down Allied airmen was brought to the camp where he was ill-treated then “shot in the Bunker by Metelski”; Winkler was absent from the camp at the time;
> “one day two Russians were brought to the camp, who were supposed to have murdered a German family” – they too were shot;
> 6-8 Russians were shot “by machine gun fire in front of the bunker”, Feb 1945;

Wilhelm Heinrich Friedrich BROCKMEYER
Not Guilty
Brockmeyer, at AEL Lahde, May 1943-April 1945 on dissolution.
Admin official that included procurement of ration cards from the Food Office; purchase of foodstuffs on the basis of these ration cards; supervision of the delivery of these foodstuffs; procurement of clothing and drugs for the prisoners; checking of bills and accounts and salaries.
“Even the fact that prisoners describe the food as inadequate or partly uneatable and disgraceful”;

Wilhelm BRUNS
Unfit to plead

Max Erich MARTIN
20 Years imprisonment
27 March 1947, sentence confirmed
22 April 1947, final judgment promulgated
19 Oct 1954, commuted to 14 years
21 Oct 1954, released
Martin (56 years old) was Guard Commander and police official at AEL Lahde, Sept 1943-April 1945 on dissolution.
> “As to the regulations concerning the formation of working groups, Martin always stood in the foreground. He, of course, was responsible for the perfect functioning of the distribution of work and labour effort as a whole”;

Willi JAHN
“Guilty of being concerned in killing only.”
Life imprisonment
27 March 1947, sentence confirmed
22 April 1947, final judgment promulgated
3 Feb 1950, commuted to 21 years
12 Oct 1954, commuted to 20 years
5 Aug 1959, expected release date
Jahn a member “of the green police” like Martin and Roerkasse, who guarded the prisoners

Karl Wilhelm August RÖHRKASSE
“Guilty of being concerned in illtreatment only.”
5 years imprisonment
27 March 1947, sentence confirmed
22 April 1947, final judgment confirmed
13 June 1950, released on “Remission for good conduct”
Roehrkasse, mention only made of a group of 5 prisoners regarded as “superluous breadeaters” and a fight in the Bunker between Roehrkasse and prisoners – no one reported dead bodies

Robert Karl August Ernst MÜLLER
Not Guilty

Johannes LEHMANN
Not Guilty

reference: The National Archives, Kew, WO 235/377 to 380

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