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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by Puck » 29 Jul 2017, 01:43

Concerning Johann Krausser, Wilhelm Hanneman, Erich List, Heinrich Winter, Karl Lenz, Karl Eckler, Valentin Eckler (and most likely also Roman Nowicki), tried on 12.09.1947, and Adolf Kaufhold, tried on 13.09.1947 in Warschau

Just found an article in RZECZPOSPOLITA from 15.09.1947
http://dlibra.umcs.lublin.pl/dlibra/pla ... t?id=12963 - page 5 topright

Translated with Google:
Jan Krausser, Adolf Kaufhold, Wilhelm Hanneman, Erik Letter, Henryk Winter, Karol Lenz, Karol Eckler and Walenty Eckler. The accusation accused them of leading posts in the NSDAP and the abuse of Polish workers employed in Germany and prisoners of war.

Witness Rafal Kalsztajn, who was working as a worker in Germany, told the court about the actions of Lenz's accused, who was an "Ordnungleiter" in Ermisleben, Saxony. In this town, Polish laborer Józef Szabela was arrested on suspicion of maintaining relations with the German. At the orders of Lenza, Szabela and the owl, the Germans were accompanied by police and party members guided the room, having plaques on their chest and back with matching inscriptions.

Sometime after that Shababel was sentenced to death by hanging. Lenz gathered the Polish workers in the area in the hundreds of thousands and ordered them to parade around the hut, in order to "scare off the example".

The extensive documentation of the case clearly illustrated the guilty verdict of others accused of abuse of laborers and prisoners. Only the Ecklers managed to clear this offense, and the court sentenced Krausser to 10 years in prison, Kaufholda for 8 years, Haneman for 9 years, List for 6 years, Winter for 6 years, Lenz for 12 years, Karol Eckler for 5 Years, Valentine Eckler for 4 years imprisonment.


The place Ermisleben is Ermsleben!

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by ansata1976 » 29 Jul 2017, 05:47

What is the correct translation of this article:
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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by Puck » 29 Jul 2017, 12:27

Hi Ansata,

with a source it would be easier to translate, my knowlegde of the polish language is limited

But I found another trial in Gdynia
RZECZPOSPOLITA from 21.03.1946 http://dlibra.umcs.lublin.pl/dlibra/pla ... t?id=18825 / page 4

Google translation
The Special Criminal Court Gdansk at the departure session in Gdynia was investigating the case of Maria Modzinski, a Lithuanian volksdeutsche from Grabówka, accused of acting to the detriment of the population of Polish nationality.
The witnesses claimed that Modrzyóska, during the distribution of products between the Polish population Grabówka, took special cans, giving the Polish people hours by the steward, marking them "Polish pigs", "Polish dogs", beating them in the face and kicking.
Sad to blame Modrzynska for 7 years in prison.


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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by ansata1976 » 29 Jul 2017, 13:56

Hi Puck

Gazeta Ostrowska 1949.08.18 R.II nr223(236) - Karl Gize, Reinhold Prietz
http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=58055 page 5

Głos Ostrowski 1948.06.04 R.IV nr137(386) - Alfons Schulz
http://wbc1.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/applet ... ctory.djvu page 1

Gazeta Ostrowska 1949.05.09 R.II nr124(137) - Julius Wendland
http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/applet? ... ctory.djvu page 1

Dziennik Bałtycki, 1948, nr 133 Emil Steinborn
http://www.bibliotekacyfrowa.eu/dlibra/ ... t?id=49202 page 2

Maybe this will help you

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by Puck » 29 Jul 2017, 14:13

Hi Ansata,

I'll try best in the late afternoon...

some more articles from RZECZPOSPOLITA 09.12.1945
http://dlibra.umcs.lublin.pl/dlibra/pla ... t?id=15199 - page 6

Special Criminal Court in Cracow sentenced to death Maria Góra, volksdeutschkę, who told the Gestapo authorities that Kazimierz Jodłowski and Eustachy Radzik listened to radio broadcasts abroad. At the end of this report both were arrested and Kazimierz Jodlowski shot.
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The Special Criminal Court in Pszczyna commenced the case of 51-year-old Józef Straszydło, who volunteered to join the German army as a member of the SA and Landwache.
He participated actively in the mass arrests of Poles in the town of Krzyż Wielkopolski. At the time of the raid the accused took the fleeing Pole Kuczora, whom the Germans imprisoned in Auschwitz, and his family brought them to Frysztak. Moreover, Straszydło reported to the German police on Maria Bartecka, who lived in Żory, that she had been illegally slaughtered. After the review, Bnrtecka and her daughter Maria were released from jail / no 2 years. The court sentenced Józef Straszydlo to death.


* Pszczyna is until 1922 german Pleß (Oberschlesien)
* Krzyż Wielkopolski is until 1945 german Kreuz (Westpreußen)
* Zory until 1922 german Sohrau (Oberschlesien)
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The Special Criminal Court in Tarnow considered the case of Olga Zmuda, who in November 1939 reported to the German police in Tarnów that her husband Wojciech Zmoda and Karol Kasprzyk had weapons.
As a result of this report both were shot. The court sentenced her to life imprisonment.

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Military court sentenced the accused to succeed in anti-Semitic militia Czesława Hynka for 6 years in prison.


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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by Puck » 29 Jul 2017, 21:55

1949.08.18 - Gazeta Ostrowska - Karol Gize and Reinhard Prietz

In Kalisz were executed sentences of death on Karol Gize, a cruel criminal Nazi, the Nazi Reinhold Prietz.
Karol Gize, in the years 1941-1944, as an SS man collaborated with the Gestapo and the gendarmerie. With refined sadism he was over the Polish and Jewish population and condemned many innocent victims. For a minor offense while working in a labor camp he killed two Jews. Gize also participated actively in the demolition of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw.
The second Nazi, Reinhold Prietz, in the years 1939-1944 in Konin County and Kalisz County participated in the murder of Poles [names of victims]. He also set up [names of victims]. Poles J. Mrzskowski and W.Cypra were sentenced by the Nazis to be executed in prison. The District Court in Kalisz sentenced the death-rowers to death.
Sad Supreme Court approved, also the President R.P. did not grant a pardon.


Karol Gize may also be Karl Giese or Karl Gische

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1948.06.04 - Głos Ostrowski - Alfons Schulz

Alfons Schulz, accused of belonging to the criminal organizations of the German SS, SD and the Gestapo, was sentenced by Grudziadz District Court in Grudziadz, for bestiality against polish political prisoners.
Schulz, who before the war in Grudziadz owned a shop and an electrotechnical workshop, was serving during the occupation in the Gestapo prison.
He distinguished himself with a particular cruelty, used sophisticated tortures against the guerrillas, took part in executions, and one of the convicts, who during an exuction fell of the gallows, he shot himself with the revolver.
Sad sentenced the bestial German to death.


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1949.05.09 - Gazeta Ostrowska - Julius Wendland

On the 7th at 5:30 in the morning, in the courtyard of the prison in Kalisz was executed the sentence of the death of the former Nazi guard Juliusz Wendland.
Gendarm Wendland was known during the occupation of Uniejow as a bloody hangman of the polish population.
With sophisticated sadism, he kicked and abused peasants from the county of Turek. Among others one of the numerous searches for illegal trafficking with meat, he trashed Antoni Bialczak from Konon and shot him with a revolver. In addition, he also participated in detention and mass arrests of underground movement activists.
By judgment of the District Court in Kalisz on October 25, 1948, he was sentenced to death. The verdict of the Nazi Wendland is now on the gallows.


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1948.05.15 - Dziennik Bałtycki - Emil Steinborn

Yesterday he stood before the Gdansk Regional Court at a departure in Starogard german Emil Steinborn. In Starogard, accused of belonging to the SS, for committing numerous crimes on Polish citizens during the occupation, especially in autumn 1939.
Steinborn was in Soviet captivity. After his release from prison, he stayed until 1947 in Saxony. Through the Polish consulate he tried to repatriate to Poland, his previous place of residence. He got tired of being able to hide his crimes and get Polish citizenship.
It is worth mentioning that Steinborn was serving in the years 1935-1938 in the 2nd regiment in Starogard.
The lawsuit has completely blamed the accused in committing numerous, particularly bestial acts.
He participated in executions in the woods of the Slovak Republic. With his hands were killed priests Baumgart and Karpinski from Osiek.
Steinborn was sentenced to death.


Probably member of Selbstschutz, participating in Intelligenzaktion 1939
for Karpinski and others victims follow
http://www.swzygmunt.knc.pl/MARTYROLOGI ... yr1129.htm

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and a last one...

1948.05.23 - Dziennik Bałtycki - Ernst Raulin

Yesterday at 12.30, the verdict of the trial of the District Court in Gdynia was read out in the trial of Ernst Raulin.
The court decides to recognize the accused Raulin guilty of derogating from Polish nationality and punish him with the penalty of 2 years imprisonment with the inclusion of detention.

The court found him guilty of cooperating with the Gestapo from the first weeks of the war until the end of the war, for which he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. In addition, the court found Raulina guilty of action to the detriment of the Poles, namely:
1) Chmielewski, where the accused carried out a search and
2) Mikolajski, Michniewski and Przywoski, (? których bil i lżył ?) during the revision and interrogation.
For these crimes he was punished:
Ad 1) 4 years imprisonment,
Ad 2) 8 years imprisonment.
For all the aforementioned, and at the time of the trial, proven criminal offenses, the court charged the accused Raulin with a total penalty of 15 years in prison with the loss of public rights and civic rights of honor at the age of 10 and the forfeiture of property to the Treasury.

In the justification of the verdict, the court explained that Raulan had been acquitted from pleading Nogajewska to incite him to accept the Volksliste because Nogayev's testimony confirmed this. In addition, the court agreed that the matters of Michniewski and Mikolajski should not be treated in the sense of paragraph 1 of the decree on fascist-Nazi crimes.

During the reading of the verdict and justification Raulin behaved like a racial comedian. For any mention of beating or kicking, he shook his head and spread his hands in theatrical gesture as if to emphasize what his "innocent" man was, and he was harmed. This disgusting pantemin had to stop the defender finally, giving the accused the impression that he was scared.


There is anothor source (http://reportaze-sadowe.wprost.pl/spraw ... -sepy.html):

Ernst Raulin, a famous Gdynia photographer serving the Maritime Office, was arrested on the Hela Peninsula a few days before the outbreak of the war when he photographed military facilities from a hideout. He was taken prisoner by then-commander Helu Vladimir Steyer. Commander believed the artist had fallen out of the train heading for Hela in a place where civilians were not allowed to stop. Released from the charge of spying, the photographer moved to Warsaw.

After german occupation he arrived in Gdynia in a Gestapo uniform. Fear fell on the Poles whom he knew before the war. Fears have been justified. Ernest Raulin prepared a list of the Kashubians for the Gestapo. They were soon murdered in Piaśnica near Wejherowo. At the end of the war the photographer tried to escape to the Reich. First, he sent his wife to the evacuation vessel Wilhelm Gustloff, who was hit by missiles. Raulin was in Gdynia, hiding with his lover. When he realized that the families murdered in Piaśnica were looking for him, changed his name and left for Katowice, where he became involved as a speaker of the Polish Radio. But it pulled him to the Tri-City and was debunked during the visit. In 1948 he stood before the Gdynia court. His line of defense that during the occupation was like Konrad Wallenrod, it was not convincing. He was sentenced to 15 years. Released after a few years on leave due to developing TB he immediately escaped to Germany.



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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by ansata1976 » 29 Jul 2017, 22:41

This are the dates of the men:

Karl Ferdinand Gize born 15.11.1908 executed 12.08.1949 in Konin, SS-Mann in Andrzejów

Reinhold Prietz born 08.07.1916 in Pelwiesek Nowy executed 12.08.1949 in Konin, Wachtmeister Gendarmerie in Slesin, Piorkowice, Goslawice

Alfons Schulz born 21.03.1910 in Grudziadz executed 09.12.1948 in Grudziadz, member SS/ guard prison Grudziadz

Emil Steinborn born 22.05.1904 executed 11.05.1949 in Starogard Gd., member SS in Starogard

Julius Wendland born 23.07.1899 in Mlyny Piekarskie executed 07.05.1949 in Kalisz, member Gendarmerie Uniejowa

Thank you Puck.With your help I know now the crimes of the men.

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by history1 » 30 Jul 2017, 11:28

Puck wrote:Concerning Johann Krausser, Wilhelm Hanneman, [...] tried on 13.09.1947 in Warschau
Just found an article in RZECZPOSPOLITA from 15.09.1947
http://dlibra.umcs.lublin.pl/dlibra/pla ... t?id=12963 - page 5 topright

Translated with Google:
[...]
Regards Puck
Sorry, mate, but your Google translation is the absolute nonsense! No information that the 8 Germans got handed over to the Poles by the Americans.Incorrect information that Szabel had a illegal affair with Germans instead a German woman (the owl?!) Numbers of people are also wrong! Hundreds not
"hundreds of thousands", etc..
IMHO, absolute useless.
BTW, the newspaper text reads correctly Ermsleben.

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by history1 » 30 Jul 2017, 11:40

Puck wrote:Hi Ansata,

with a source it would be easier to translate, my knowlegde of the polish language is limited

But I found another trial in Gdynia
RZECZPOSPOLITA from 21.03.1946 http://dlibra.umcs.lublin.pl/dlibra/pla ... t?id=18825 / page 4

Google translation
[...] Maria Modzinski, a Lithuanian volksdeutsche from Grabówka,[...]

Regards Puck
There is not a single word in the text that mentions that she was from Lithuania!

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by Puck » 30 Jul 2017, 14:53

Hi history1,

what a mess, you are definitly right - unfortunately I can't correct it anymore...

still wondering
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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by George_W » 30 Jul 2017, 16:22

Maybe newspaper article did not mention it but Hannemann, Kaufhold, Krausser, List, Winter, Lenz, Valentin Eckler and Karl Eckler were all indeed extradited from US zone to Poland. All in the late 1946 or early 1947.

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by history1 » 30 Jul 2017, 19:06

George_W wrote:Maybe newspaper article did not mention it but Hannemann, Kaufhold, Krausser, List, Winter, Lenz, Valentin Eckler and Karl Eckler were all indeed extradited from US zone to Poland. All in the late 1946 or early 1947.

George
Right contrary. The newspaper article mentions this fact, but not the Google translation, George.
Google can NOT be recommended for such translations.

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by ansata1976 » 02 Aug 2017, 17:14

What is the correct translation of this article? Unfortunately I do not have the link.
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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by ansata1976 » 06 Aug 2017, 00:15

Is this article so difficult that you can help me?

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Re: Poland War Crime Trials

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Post by ansata1976 » 14 Aug 2017, 14:02

I am interested in more information about:

Arthur Dietweiler member SS Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Emil Schindel (maybe 02.05.1888) member SA Trial Lodz (Kutno) 1947 death sentence
Julian Sommer (maybe 03.07.1907) member SS Trial Lodz 1946 death sentence
Roman Sommerfeld member SA Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Berta Natalia Kanwischer 10.04.1883 Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Waldemar Patzak 1922 member SS Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Theodor Nickel member SA 15.08.1903 Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Reinhold Wolf 20.08.1907 member SS Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence (for killing 14 men from the village of Podłódzkie Wiskitno)

Was the sentence carried out? What was their fate? What was their crime?

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