Hiwis and court martials

[PatrickB.]

How would Hiwis, specifically Trawnikimänner, be tried if apprehended and given disciplinary action for committing a crime while attached to their military or police duty. Was a death sentence common?

[Semenov]

How would Hiwis, specifically Trawnikimänner, be tried if apprehended and given disciplinary action for committing a crime while attached to their military or police duty. Was a death sentence common?

Don't merged Trawnikmanner (police and securite units) with Hiwis (usuallu non-combatants). For combat units the usual punishment - 20-25 years in GULAG. After 1958, many have been released

[PatrickB.]

How would Hiwis, specifically Trawnikimänner, be tried if apprehended and given disciplinary action for committing a crime while attached to their military or police duty. Was a death sentence common?

Don't merged Trawnikmanner (police and securite units) with Hiwis (usuallu non-combatants). For combat units the usual punishment - 20-25 years in GULAG. After 1958, many have been released

Oh, I should have been more specific. I mean what would usually become of Hiwis or Trawnikis if they committed punishable crimes while serving under the Germans, excluding the obvious genocidal assignments the Trawnikis had.

[ML59]

Death sentences were common in the German Army all along the war years also for German nationals (more than 15.000 soldiers were sentenced to death and executed), I do not expect any particular leniency toward foreign volunteers of any sort. I don't know if foreigners were allowed access to the German military justice system or were judged by civil/police/local authorities in the field. Anyhow, it has been estimated that, in addition to the official death sentences, up to 35.000 German soldiers were summary executed in the field by their unit commanders, field courts, flying courts, feldjagdkommandos, GFP, FPol and the like, so there is no reason to believe foreigners in German service could expect something different, on the contrary. There are records of soldiers that were executed in the field even during training course, before entering in contact with the enemy! Political unloyalty and "defeatism" were especially harshly prosecuted; criminal offenses like rapes, thefts, pillage, brawling or mistreatment of foreign civilians were usually much more leniently punished, if at all.