Poland War Crime Trials

[ansata1976]

Hi GregSingh

Can you help me please again with some articles

[GregSingh]

Who remembers Dr.Guenther?

Prosecutor of the District Court in Świdnica (Lower Silesia) in connection with the investigation against Dr.Erick Ferdynand Günther (a doctor in the Gross Rosen camp) asks all former prisoners of the camp who knew Günther and can provide any information about him, to provide their contacts/addresses to the District Prosecutor's Office in Świdnica.

Death penalty for a Nazi tormentor

The District Court in Cieszyn during the off-site session in Bielsko examined the case of Józef Sikora, living in Kamienica, accused of participating in September 1939 as a member of "hilfspolizei" together with Gestapo members, in the arrest of 5 Poles: Józef Maślanka, Michał Kucharski, Karol Migdałek, Edward Laszczak and Rudolf Marka. During the arrest Sikora beat Maślanka with a butt of a gun. The Gestapo men had with them a list with only four surnames on it - without Laszczak, who at the time of the arrest was with them and on Sikora's suggestion was also arrested.
From the testimonies of witnesses it appeared that there were no personal misunderstandings between Sikora and Laszczak, and that Sikora only acted because of excessive zeal and willingness to serve the Nazis. Two of these men died in concentration camps, and two remained until the end of the war in the camp. One of the arrested, namely Laszczak was in the camp for only 3 months and he was now the main witness. As a result of the hearing, the Court sentenced the accused to death by hanging.

Next scan is not clear enough to be sure about surnames. Anyway here it is:

The murderers of Polish POWs must answer to the Polish tribunal

The Polish Military Mission, which is currently working in Germany, is collecting documents against those responsible for ill-treatment and executions of Polish POWs officers in Murnau camp. Following criminals already had been identified and their whereabouts are known: Petrie, captains Dienert and Schmidt, sergeants: Freisiger, Kiesewetter and Larisch.

Criminal Girle will hang on the gallows

The President of the Republic of Poland did not use clemency power to pardon Jan Girle, member of the criminal organization SS, condemned to death by a verdict of the District Court in Bydgoszcz. The criminal took active part in the mass arrests of Poles in Bydgoszcz and contributed to deaths of many of them.

German police secretary captured in Wrocław

The secretary of the German police in Warszawa, Alfred Kühne, will be put on trial before the Special Court.
Security Service made the arrest in Wrocław. While carrying out personal searches of suspicious Germans, a German ID card was found on one of them stating that its owner, Alfred Kühne, is a secretary of the German police in Warszawa.

Death penalty for oppressors of Poles

The Special Criminal Court in Katowice, during off-site session in Cieszyn, investigated the case of Ryszard Goryszka from Ustroń, who as Scharführer SA took part along with German police and Gestapo in the liquidation of the Polish underground organization.
Proceedings revealed that the accused during German occupation belonged to the SA, was promoted to Scharführer and was the deputy commander of the local SA group. He took active part in all Nazi events, Germans had an absolute trust in him. In September 1943, the accused was ordered by the Gestapo to report at the railway station in Ustroń, to participate in the liquidation, in nearby forests, of Polish Home Army units, which for some time carried out sabotage actions in the vicinity of Ustroń and Hermanowice? (possibly an error, village is called Hermanice). The accused commanded action in Hermanowice?, where more than thirty Poles were arrested, including five women. All were promptly executed. Among them Rudolf Nowak and Józef Krysta, Józef Barańczyk, Rudolf Szwarc and Jan Witała.
Moreover, during the court hearings, it was confirmed that the accused while was holding the position of Obermeister in German factory Brevillier Urban in Cieszyn, heavily beat Soviet POWs factory workers on many occasions.
After hearing the Court condemned the accused to death, loss of public rights and confiscation of property.

[ansata1976]

Hi George

Do you know more information about Willi Rautenberg (Gestapo Lodz) + Oskar Schwemm (Kripo Lodz) ? Were they sentenced in Poland?

[George_W]

Unfortunately i don't have any info about these men.

George

[ansata1976]

Was one of these men sentenced in Poland?

Heinrich Iborg 19.11.1904 Kriminalsekretär, Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Bernhard Johann Eickemayer Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Ludwig Sievers SS-Hauptsturmführer, Kriminalsekretär, Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Erwin Gerhard Stabenau SS-Hauptsturmführer Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Wilhelm Mathes 18.12.88 in Kiel Kriminalsekretär Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Gerhard Hinz 12.04.07 in Kiel Kriminalsekretär Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Herbert Passia 15.01.1904 Kriminalsekretär, Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)
Friedrich Jentsch 04.07.1905 Kriminalsekretär, Gestapo Litzmannstadt (Łódź)

[George_W]

As far i know neither of these men was tried in Poland. Walter (not Heinrich) Iborg (place of birth unknown to me), Herbert Passia (born in Breslau), Friedrich Jentsch (born in Fulda) and Wilhelm Matthes (born in Kiel) were interned by the British authorities after the war and were wanted for extradition by Poland but they were not extradited.

George

[ansata1976]

Hi GregSingh

can you help meagain with the translation of these articles?

[ansata1976]

Puck do you have information (date of birth, date of trial, rank...) about this men from Stutthof:
[...]
Kazimierz Gorski (kapo) – 1948 10 yrs impr
[...]

There were two men with this name in Stutthof:
Gorski Kasimir, DOB 1.2.1911, inmate nr: 17755, from Radziejów, Kreis Hermannsbad (Ciechocinek)
Gorski Kasimir, DOB 1.2.1910, inmate nr: 2231

Kapo Aleksy Duzdal (acquitted 31.05.1946 in Gdansk)

Duzdal Alexej,DOB 20.9.191 inmate nr:16730, POB: Lukow, address:
Warsaw, Cieszkowskiego 1/132, profession: paramedic

Kapo Jan Preiss 1920 (acquitted 31.05.1946 in Gdansk)

Preiss Johann, DOB 11.6.1920, POB: Bochum, address: Bromberg, Lothringerstr.40, profession: locksmith's assistant, nationality: German/Polish

Kapo Marian Zielkowski (died of a heart attack 25.08.1945 in prison)

DOB 6.9.1895, inmate nr. 7863

No information about an inmate with the name Kazimierz Kowalski on the Stutthof memorial website.

What is the correct DOB of Duzdal Alexej?

[ansata1976]

What was the sentence of

Bernard Wegner 11.05.1917, kapo in KL Stutthof in the years 1943-1945
Erich Schampe/Szampa 13.04.1901, Kapo in KL Stutthof and Nord-Lager Pölitz in 1939-1944
Henryk (Heinrich) Teichmann 06.08.1902 or 08.12.1902 abuse of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners 1940-1944
Herman Edwin Bettin 26.10.1903 guard in KL Stutthof
Konrad Langkau 10.09.1912, in 1943-1944, as an SS soldier, he belonged to the camp KL Lublin


Ernst Koenecke 20.06.1907, 1939-1945 he served in the German gendarmerie in Königsberg
Johannes Conradi (or Jan Konradi) 29.02.1920 German gendarmerie in Reda and Szemud, area of Wejherowo
Erik/Erich Lehmann/Lejmann 29.05.1921, German criminal police in Łódź in the years 1939-1945
Franz Rahn 14.09.1887,in 1939-1945 in Tczew, being the leaseholder of the "Tczewski Dwór" / "Grand Hotel"
Artur Strehl 24.01.1907 working at the Gestapo in Katowice as a driver
Oskar Möllmann 17.02.1912 worked for the Gestapo as agent No. 546, in the province Poznan
Willy Ringel 18.09.1891 worked as a chauffeur in the Gestapo in Gdańsk
Paul Reissmann 16.08.1903,served in the German gendarmerie in Bialystok
Johann Stockinger 22.12.1911, member Waffen SS (1944-1945) in Lębork, Wejherowo and Gdynia
Willi Schultz (Szulc) 15.08.1905 member Gestapo in Gdańsk in the years 1939-1945

[George_W]

I have

Paul Reissmann, born 16/08/1903, member of staff at KL Stutthof and cook in KL Stutthof, extradited from British zone to Poland on 15/05/1947, discontinuance of the proceedings in Gdańsk on 17/06/1948 (maybe he was extradited by mistake?), released without trial on 18/10/1948.

George

[ansata1976]

What is the correct date of the trial of

Otto Schwanke 10.09.1896 in ? , sentenced to 3 years imprisonment 1947, released on 06.12.1948
Max Kant 13.02.1894 in ? , sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 1947 in Walbrzych, released 1956
Johann Theil 25.04.1908 in ? , sentenced to 6 years imprisonment 1948
Bruno Martin Bönning 12.10.1901 in ? , sentenced to 2 years imprisonment 1947
Marian Borenstein 21.12.1921 in ? , sentenced to 8 years imprisonment 1949 in Lodz
Lucjusz Wujek (?) , sentenced to life imprisonment 1948

[George_W]

Only this

Otto Schwanke, extradited from US zone to Poland on 04/09/1946, sentenced in Toruń on 16/10/1947 to 3 years, released on 06/12/1946.

Johann Theil, Volksdeutscher from Romania, extradited from US zone to Poland on 25/02/1947, sentenced in Świdnica on 24/09/1948 to 6 years, date of release is unknown to me.

Bruno Martin Bönning (Boening), extradited from US zone to Poland on 28/06/1946, sentenced in Toruń on 22/10/1947 to 2 years, released on 18/10/1948.

George

[ansata1976]

Thank you George

Do you know the release date of Erich Müller + Heinrich Seidband?

[George_W]

Only Heinrich Seidband, released on 24/05/1950.

George

[ansata1976]

Do you know the place of birth of Heinrich Seidband?