French War Crimes Proceedings

[Puck]

hello !


JUGEMENT CONTRE WALTER HOLZ ET AUTRES:
( judgement against walter holz and others)


place of trial: t.p.f.a paris
dates of trial: 27.1.1950 - 28.1.1950
charges: "murders ; complicity of murders" (assassinats ; complicité d'assassinats)
" assaults and injuries" (coups et blessures volontaires)
" illegal confinment" (séquestrations illégales)
" torture" (tortures corporelles)
crime location: pontivy , morbihan (dpt)
crime date: 00.07.1944
office: german police


1) walter holz: the death sentence (commutted to life hard-labor)
(born.25.7.1900.stralsund)

2) werner pein: 20 years hard-labor (commutted to 7 years imprisonment)
(born.14.11.1912.berlin)

3) rolf schneemann: acquittal
(born.12.11.1924.salzwedel)

4) viktor gratwohl: 10 years imprisonment (in absentia)

5) wilhelm meier: 5 years imprisonment (in absentia)

6) heinrich jahn: 5 years imprisonment (in absentia)

7) arthur henning: 5 years imprisonment (in absentia)
(born.14.3.1909.pustchow)

(sources: ministére de la défense
division des affaires pénales militaires
dépôt central d'archives de la justice militaire
boite postale 214
36300 leblanc
france)

danyb

Hi Dany,

are these accused members of Feldgendarmerie-Abteilung 307?

Regards Puck

[danyb]

hi Puck

i don't know if they were members of Feldgendarmeie or an other office.

on this link , informations on his crime and fate:

https://kristianhamon.blogspot.com/2016 ... du-18.html

Best Regards
Danyb

[Puck]

Thank you Dany

[danyb]

i'm looking for additionals infos on this man:

Ernest (Ernst) Kleinteich
born.02.08.1912 in Schwarzenbrunn
trial and death sentence in absentia (T.M.P. Metz)
same trial with Josef Schweiger (SIPO-SD Chaumont)

Kleinteich was listed as a gendarme by profession.

what is his correct office (SIPO-SD , Feldgenarmerie , Gendarmerie) ??

Thanks in Advance
Best Regards
Danyb

[ansata1976]

Walter Holz
25.07.1900 in Stralsund
sentenced to death 28.01.1950 in Paris
commuted to life hard-labour 14.12.1950
reduced to 20 years imprisonment 02.05.1952
released 15.03.1954

[ansata1976]

When was Anton Zita sentenced to death (in absentia) 1954? Was he sentenced alone?

SS-Oberscharführer Anton Zita (24.04.1909 in Göllerndorf), RSHA (Abt. IV B 4), deputy of Eichmann in Saloniki (died 16.06.1946 in Prague Pankrac prison)

[steve248]

Zita born Göllersdorf, Lower Austria.
Various published sources says Zita was a suicide in Prague.
Was he sentenced to death in 1945 (not 1954) or was it left hand and right hand at work?

[radevich]

Hi Danyb

The correct name is Helmut Helmreich 9/1/1914
Hauptmann with 19 Pol. Regt in Cluses France
sentence reduced to life and released 30/11/1955.

dylan.

Helmut Helmreich, SS #357169
20.04.1944 promotion to SS-Stbf and Hauptm. d.SchP with 19.SS-Polizeiregiment (PV Köln)

Helmreich, Helmut Kurt geb.09.09.1914, Knittelfeld
Pol.-OW. u.Junker d.Schupo (Pol.-Offizierschule Köpenick 18.12.39) → 22.12.39 Ltn.d.Sch. (PV.Wien); m.W.v.01.01.40 versetzt zur PV.Köln

[ansata1976]

I am interested in more information about

Franz Winkler (14.09.1912 in Heidelberg) died 30.05.1950 in Lyon prison

[danyb]

Thank you Steve.



I am interested in details about the trials and men:

Wilhelm Berger (27.2.1911 in Wiesloch) sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
Willy Peter (16.11.1903 in Mulhouse) sentenced to death (in absence)
Martin Buschmann (14.12.1908 in Gundersdorf) sentenced to death (in absence)

Willy Peter was Kreisleiter of Wissenbourg.
on november and décember 1944 , he ordered exécutions against french civilians , for "example".

Danyb

[steve248]

Buschmann was Gendarmeriekreisführer in Wussemburg.
autumn 1944, with Sipo Kommando from Kripo Strasbourg in Bassang le Tillot
(CROWCASS List No. 66, Jan 1948)

[danyb]

Buschmann was Gendarmeriekreisführer in Wussemburg.
autumn 1944, with Sipo Kommando from Kripo Strasbourg in Bassang le Tillot
(CROWCASS List No. 66, Jan 1948)

head of this Kommando is a named Heussel (killed on january 1945).

do you have additional infos on him ??

Thanks in Advance
Best Regards
Danyb

[steve248]

Heussel is not listed as an SS-officer so maybe a Gendarmerie officer (I do not collect their data).

[steve248]

The CROWCASS lists are not always accurate and reflect the information given to them (the UNWCC) by countries. France wanted these alleged war criminals and listed in a number of CROWCASS lists:
SS-Hstuf Dr Callinger, KdS Nancy, Abt IV, 1944: Callinger has no SSO.
Helmut Calow, Sipo Ast Blois, 1943-1944.
SS-Oschaf Heinz Caspar/Casper, KdS Toulouse, Nov 1942-Aug 1944.
Johannes Cevasko, KdS Paris, Abt IV, 1941-1944.
SS-Sturmmann Conrad, BdS Paris, then in Alsace, 1944.
Josef Conrady, driver, Sipo Ast Barens.
SS-Oschaf Corda (or Sorda), KdS Paris, Abt IV.

Any further information appreciated.

[danyb]

Josef Conrady
born.27.04.1907. in Wieserscheid
SIPO-SD (Grenzpolizei) in Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Basses-Pyrénées)
sentence to 3 years imprisonment
T.M.P.Bordeaux. 15.04.1946. jugement No 447/1070

Johann Cevasko
case closed (inadequacy of identification)
T.M.P. Paris. 20.03.1949

Danyb