Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

[dylan]

Hi Researcher

Von Stockhausen first death sentence reduced to Life.
Oberst Klein was given 20 years prison.
No further information about time or place trial.

Regards dylan.

[Michal78]

Here is photo of Dr. Walther Hochsteiner.
Michal

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Dr. Franz Hradetzky

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Leo Kuss

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Dr. Hermann Doujak

[David Thompson]

Thanks for those photos, Goofy. Where did they come from?

[Michal78]

The source is gostje.kivi.si
Michal

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more informations:

Georg Kiessel (31.10.1907 in Nürnberg- executed 30.12.1950 in Belgrade)
SS-Sturmbannführer(1944) and Oberkriegsverwaltungsrat; 1940 until End of 1942 deputy of Harald Turner .

Erich Roth (25.05.1910 in Auschwitz- executed 27.12.1947 in ?)
SS-Sturmbannführer(1940); Regierungsrat im Reichsicherheitshauptamt(RSHA) Abt. IV B1(Church section),1943 Gestapo Dortmund, extradition to Yugoslavia 1947

Josef Vogt (30.07.1897 in Mettmann,Germany- executed July 1947 in Ljubljana/Yugoslawia)
SS-Sturmbannführer(1939), 1933 NSDAP,1939 SS/SD.Regierungsrat im Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Leiter des Referats IV A 1(Marxism/Communism).Since July 1942 Commander of Security Police and SD in Ljubljana/Yugoslavia.

Ernst Weinmann (16.04.1907 in Frommenshausen,Germany- executed January 1947 in Belgrade)
SS-Obersturmbannführer(1944); dentist.1927 NSDAP/SA.1933 Nazi student leaders in Tübingen.1933 mayor of Tübingen.1936 in Himmlers Security Service(SD).1938 SS.Reichssicherheitshauptamt Abt. IV D.After attack on Yugoslavia Judensachbearbeiter at the commander of the Security police and SD in Belgrade.

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Here is photo of Dr. Walther Hochsteiner.
Michal

Dr. Walther Hochsteiner

As an activist in the Nazi propaganda machine was established, Dr. Walter Hochsteiner Kaerntner rapidly in the Nazi Party. In 1938, District Director of St. Veit / Glan, staggered him Gauleiter Rainer in June 1942 as district manager after Radmannsdorf, where he became district manager responsible for Oberkrain was appointed and a reckless police regime installed. 1947 presented him the military court in Ljubljana, a host of alleged crimes, which culminated in the accusation, the extinction of the Slovenian nation and its identity to his life's mission is set to have. Hochsteiner was executed.

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Leo Kuss

Leo Kuss

Leon Kuss, district director of Krainburg, embodied the type of social climber of the NSDAP as a career springboard served. The Military Tribunal in 1947 Ljubljana presented Kuss various war crimes and crimes against humanity (denationalization and expulsion of the Slovenian population, forced mobilization of the Slovenes and the use of the Slovenian population for forced labor) to load.The court sentenced Kuss to death by shooting.

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Do you have more informations about these men:

Paul Duscha were sentenced to death by hanging on 20.1.1949.

On 21.7.1947 were Kurt Stage, Georg Krammhöller, Sepp Zangel, Franz Wiegel and Hugo Gayd sentenced to death.

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Emil Vogel, member of Gestapo from Brežice and Hermann Farnleitner, Gestapo member from Ptuj were also senteced to death.

and

Eckert, Josef (death)
Bock, Dr. med. Helmuth (death)
Schulz, Dr. med. Guenther (death)
Hahn, Josef "Sepp" (death by hanging)
Helm, Hans (death)
Polte, Friedrich (death)
Tribukait or Tribukayt, Guenther (death by hanging)
Berg, Rudolf (death)
Boehme (Böhme), Walter (death)
Boethmer (Böthmer), Karl (death)
Firow, Walter (death)
Jostel, Adolf (death)
Ludwig, Ernst (death)
Schulze, Langemann (death)
Tritschler, Franz (death)
Gravenstein, Hans (death)
von Ludwiger, Hartwig (death)
Fiebig, Martin (death by hanging; executed May 1947)
Danckelmann, Heinrich (death)
Kuehne (Kühne), Gerhard (death by firing squad)
Heim, Karl (death by firing squad)
Spieler, Julius (death by hanging)
Fiebig, Martin (death; executed 5 May 1947)
Fischer, Adolf (death; executed 23 Oct 1947)
Fischer, Theodor (death)
May, Andreas (death)
Strohmaier, Hubert (death; executed 1947)
Wagner, Jürgen (death; executed 1947)
Wurster, Eugen (death; executed 1948)

[David Thompson]

Berg, Rudolf [SS-Scharführer] -- service, concentration camp (Konzentrationslager - KL) Stutthof {arrested and put on trial 19 Nov 1947 with 26 other members of the administration and staff of KL Stutthof ("the fourth Stutthof trial") by a Polish special criminal court at Gdansk (Danzig) on charges of mistreatment and/or murder of inmates; convicted 29 Nov 1947 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment (Marcus Wendel and Dean Robson, "Third Reich Factbook - Fourth Stutthof Trial", http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/warcr ... tthof4.htm; Marcus Wendel and Dean Robson, "Third Reich Factbook - SS personnel serving at Stutthof", http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-camp-stutthof.htm).}

Bock, Dr. med. Helmuth -- physician at Luneberg hospital {put on trial by a Yugoslav court at Belgrade; convicted and sentenced to death 5 Nov 1946 (History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 534, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948); subsequent fate unknown.}

Eckert, Josef (?-24.1.1947) -- service (as police official), office of the German Military Government of Serbia {arrested and put on trial 9 Dec 1946 by the Supreme Military Court of Yugoslavia at Belgrade on war crimes charges; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 22 Dec 1946 (NYT 23 Dec 1946:2:3 & 8:3; LT 23 Dec 1946:3e); executed at Belgrade 24 Jan 1947 (NYT 25 Jan 1947:2:3; Octavianus post in Third Reich Forum: "Yugoslav War Crimes Proceedings").}

Fiebig, Martin (?-1947) [General der Flieger] -- commander, 4th Bomber Wing (Kampfgeschwader 4) "General Wever" 1 Sept 1939-10 May 1940; commander, 1st Air Division (1.Flieger-Division) 12 Apr-30 June 1942; commander, VIII Flying Corps 1942; commander, X Flying Corps (X.Fliegerkorps) 22 May 1943-1 Sept 1944; commander, Luftwaffe Forces Southeast (Befehlshaber Luftwaffen Kommando Suedost) 22 May 1943-1 Sept 1944; commander, IInd Flying Corps (II.Fliegerkorps) 1 Feb-12 Apr 1945 [Knights Cross 1940; Oakleaves 1942] {arrested and put on trial by a Yugoslav court on charges arising out of the bombing of Belgrade in Apr 1941; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging; executed 5 May 1947 (Field of Honor 2, pps. 152-3) or 24 Oct 1947 (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141; ABR-Croisier-L; Third Reich Factbook).}

Fischer, Adolf (1893-23.10.1947) [Generalmajor] -- WWI service as infantry officer; discharged from Army as First Lieutenant and entered police service 1920; reentered Army as Major 1935; commander, I Battalion of the 88th Infantry Regiment 16 Mar 1936; commander, 459th Infantry Regiment 1 Jun 1940; commander, 367th Infantry Division 10 May-1 Aug 1944; commander, Battle Group Southeast (Kampfgruppe Südost) 1 Sept 1944 [Knights Cross 1944] {put on trial by a Yugoslav court; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death; hanged (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141; ABR-Croisier-H) or shot (ABR-H) at Belgrade 23 Oct 1947.}

Fischer, Theodor (?-1.4.1949) [Generalmajor] – commander, 550th Army Rear Area (Korueck 550) [17th Army] {captured by Yugoslavs; died 1 Apr 1949 in Yugoslav captivity at Belgrade (ABR-Croisier-H).}

Gravenstein, Hans (1890-3.5.1947) [Generalmajor] -- WWI service as officer; discharged as Captain 1920; reentered military service 1934; commander, I Battalion of the 70th Artillery Regiment 1 Oct 1937; general staff (as Ia) 70th Artillery Regiment 1 Sept 1939; commander, 225th Artillery Regiment 6 Feb 1940-16 Sept 1942; commander, 252nd Artillery Regiment 26 Oct 1942; 415th Divisional Artillery Commander (Artillerie-Kommandeur - Arko 415) 1 Sept 1943; commander, 373d Infantry Division (Croatian) "Tigar" Division 10 Jan-8 May 1945 {convicted of war crimes by the Yugoslavs and sentenced to death by hanging 1 Apr 1947 (History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 526, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948); executed 3 May 1947 (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141; ABR-H; ABR-Croisier-H).}

Hahn, Josef "Sepp" -- {arrested and put on trial by the Supreme Military Court of Yugoslavia at Belgrade for war crimes; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 22 Dec 1946 (NYT 23 Dec 1946:2:3); subsequent fate unknown.}

Heim, Karl -- "SS man" {arrested and put on trial by a Yugoslav court at Zrenjanin for war crimes; convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad 3 Dec 1948 (NYT 4 Dec 1948:5:1); subsequent fate unknown.}

Helm, Hans (?-24.1.1947 [SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer] -- German police attaché to Croatia in Agram (Zagreb) {arrested and put on trial 9 Dec 1946 by the Supreme Military Court of Yugoslavia at Belgrade on war crimes charges; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 22 Dec 1946 (NYT 23 Dec 1946:2:3 & 8:3; LT 23 Dec 1946:3e); executed at Belgrade 24 Jan 1947 (NYT 25 Jan 1947:2:3).(Eichmann Trial Exhibit T/892; Exhibit T/893, Statement of Hans Helm dated 18 Sept 1946; Octavianus post in Third Reich Forum: "Yugoslav War Crimes Proceedings").}

Kuehne (Kühne), Gerhard (?-22.5.1948) [Generalleutnant] -- commander, 22nd Volksgrenadier Division 15 Apr-8 May 1945 {convicted of war crimes by a Yugoslav court and sentenced to death by firing squad; executed 22 May 1948 (ABR-Croisier-H; Third Reich Factbook).}

von Ludwiger, Hartwig (1895-5.5.1947) [General der Infanterie] -- commander, 704th Infantry Division 20 Feb-30 Apr 1943; commander, 104th Jaeger Division 1 May 1943-29 Apr 1945; commander, XXI Mountain Corps 29 Apr-8 May 1945 [Knights Cross 1941; Oakleaves 1942] {arrested and put on trial by a Yugoslav court at Belgrade; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging 1 Apr 1947 (History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 527, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948); executed at Belgrade 5 May 1947 (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141; Field of Honor 2, pps. 147-8; ABR-Croisier-H; ABR-H; Third Reich Factbook).}

Polte, Friedrich (?-24.1.1947) -- service (as police official), office of the Military Government of Serbia {arrested and put on trial 9 Dec 1946 by the Supreme Military Court of Yugoslavia at Belgrade on war crimes charges; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 22 Dec 1946 (NYT 23 Dec 1946:2:3 & 8:3; LT 23 Dec 1946:3e); executed at Belgrade 24 Jan 1947 (NYT 25 Jan 1947:2:3; Octavianus post in Third Reich Forum: "Yugoslav War Crimes Proceedings").}

Schulz, Dr. med. Guenther -- physician at the Lueneburg hospital {put on trial by a Yugoslav court at Belgrade; convicted and sentenced to death 5 Nov 1946 (History of the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Development of the Laws of War p. 536, United Nations War Crimes Commission, London: HMSO, 1948); subsequent fate unknown.}

Spieler, Julius -- commander, German security forces in the Banat region, Yugoslavia {put on trial by a Yugoslav court at Zrenjanin for shooting 300 persons; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 3 Dec 1948 (NYT 4 Dec 1948:5:1); subsequent fate unknown.}

Strohmaier, Hubert (?-1947) [Generalmajor] -- commander, 373d Artillery Regiment; commander, 111th Divisional Artillery Command (Artillerie-Kommandeur -- Arko 111) {put on trial by a Yugoslav court; convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging; executed 1947 at Belgrade (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141; ABR-Croisier-H).}

Wagner, Juergen (Jürgen) (1901-1947) [SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS] -- commander, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Brigade "Niederland" 9 Mar 1943-8 May 1945; commander, 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Netherlands" (SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division "Nederland") in Croatia [Knights Cross 1943; Oakleaves 1944]{taken prisoner by allied troops; extradited to Yugoslavia; put on trial for war crimes by a Yugoslav court; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging; executed 5 Apr 1947 (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141) or 27 Jun 1947 at Belgrade (Waffen-SS Commanders II, p. 313) or in Aug 1947 (SS: Roll of Infamy p. 174).}

Wurster, Eugen (?-1948) [Generalleutnant] -- commander of the signals section for the Commander-in-Chief West (Na. Führ. OB West) {convicted by a Yugoslav court of war crimes; hanged at Belgrade 1948 (MacLean, Quiet Flows the Rhine p. 141; ABR-Croisier-H).}

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Miroslav (Friedrich) Navratil (July 19, 1893 in Sarajevo – June, 1947 in Zagreb) was a Croatian soldier, pilot, and general who served in the armies of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Independent State of Croatia.

Navratil was born in Sarajevo, within the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He attended gymnasium in Sarajevo, and finished cadet's school in Graz. In World War I he served in the military of Austria–Hungary, as a fighter pilot in the Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops. While on the Eastern and Italian fronts, he scored 10 victories, making him one of the most successful pilots from the empire in the war. He attained the rank of Oberleutnant.[1]
In 1918, Austria-Hungary dissolved and Navratil moved to the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, where he took on a position in the royal army. He rose to the rank of general, but was eventually retired from the army in 1940 because of conflict with Serb officers within its ranks.
With the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia on April 10, 1941 Navratil was brought back into active service. He was named as a military representative in Bucharest. He served as minister of the armed forces from to meet German leader Adolf Hitler. After he was relieved of his post he travelled to Vienna where his family was located and remained there until the end of World War II. In 1945 he moved to Zell am Seeno where he lived until he was found by American troops in 1946. He was sent back to communist Yugoslavia in 1947, where he was executed in June of that same year.

Vladimir Kren (1903-1948) was a major general of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia.
He held the rank of captain in the Yugoslav Royal Air Force before defecting to the German army on January 4, 1941. With him he took plans of Yugoslav air fields, which he gave to German officials. On his return to the newly proclaimed Independent State of Croatia, he was named a colonel in the Croatian Home Guard.[1] He was subsequently named the head of the air force on April 19, 1941.He retired of his own request on September 13, 1943. However, he was brought back into service in June 1944, and remained until the state's defeat in 1945. In 1948 he was extradited to Yugoslavia by the British, and was executed as traitor in Zagreb.

Vladimir Laxa (21 January 1870 – 1945) was born in Sisak, in what is now Croatia, and was a distinguished soldier and general. He spent his adult life from the age of 20 as a professional soldier who was highly decorated during the First World War. During World War II he was Army Chief of Staff of the Axis Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) from June 1941 until August 1942, when he resigned his commission in protest at atrocities committed by Ustaše irregular forces.
Laxa was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Army on 18 August 1890 . During the First World War he was commander of the 18th Mountain Brigade, and was one of only 131 men that during the First World War were awarded the Military Order of Maria Theresa, the highest Habsburg decoration; in Laxa's case for the “heroism, enormous bravery and tenaciously successful defence of positions” by himself and his men on Škabrijel (Italian: Mount Saint Gabriel) during the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo in 1917 . After the war ended, he joined the newly-formed army of (what became known later as) the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia was invaded by the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) on 6 April 1941, and this led to the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia, of which he was first the military's second in command (April-June 1941) and then chief-of-staff. During the war he was awarded the state's Order of the Crown of King Zvonimir. In October 1941 he was transferred to the NDH High Command. He took part in a conference in Opatija (2-3 March 1942 that planned the Third anti-partisan offensive, codenamed ‘Trio’. He remained in the NDH high command until August 1942 when he resigned (although there is a source that claims that Laxa was "removed by order of Marshal Slavko Kvaternik and retired" ) due to his failure to obtain support from Ante Pavelić, NDH leader, for his wishes to end the atrocities of Ustaše irregulars, about which he had authored several scathing reports. Laxa was among the exodus that were forcibly returned to the Partisans at Bleiburg. He was executed on an unknown date in 1945 . He was subsequently buried in Mirogoj cemetery.

Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović ( Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; also known as "Чича Дража" or "Čiča Draža", meaning "old man Draža") (April 27, 1893 - July 17, 1946) was a Serbian general now primarily remembered as the World War II leader of the Chetnik movement. The organization, officially named the "Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland" (JVUO, ЈВУО), was founded as a royalist/nationalist Serbian resistance movement, but eventually transformed into a collaborationist Axis militia fighting against Allied forces in Yugoslavia. After the war, he was tried and convicted of high treason and war crimes by the Yugoslav authorities, and was consequently executed by firing squad.

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Adolf Fischer
23.7.1893 at Schwerte/Ruhr Shot 1947 in Belgrade


Johann Fortner
25.11.1884 at Zweibrucken/Pfalz Hanged 1947 in Yugoslavia


Hans Gravenstein
16.7.1890 at Berlin Hanged 1947 in Yugoslavia


Hans von Hosslin
20.9.1880 at Erbach Hanged 1947 in Belgrade


Emil Just
18.6.1885 at Strassburg Hanged 1946 at Kovno


Ludwig Kubler
2.9.1889 at Unterdill/Bavaria Hanged 1947 in Yugoslavia


Adalbert Lontschar
10.9.1885 at Marburg/Drau Hanged 1947 at Belgrade


Hartwig von Ludwiger
29.6.1895 at Beuthen Hanged 1947 at Belgrade


Fritz Neidholdt
16.11.1887 at St Kilian/Schleusingen Shot 1947 in Yugoslavia


Hubert Strohmaier
25.3.1896 at Arnfels/Leibnitz Hanged 1947 in Belgrade


Eugen Wurster
12.2.1895 at Oberndorf Hanged 1948 in Belgrade

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I need more informations about:

Generalmajor der Polizei Andreas May
Oberst Hermann Christl (executed june 1947)
Rudolf Lüters
Dr Eugen Stumpf