Franz stangl trial#

Belsen trial in 1945 of the SS functionaries from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in prison on 28 June 1971, during the appeal case. Under his supervision, most of the Treblinka killings took place. Stangl had previously assisted in killing handicapped people during Operation T4 (the Euthanasia Programme of the National Socialists), and, before moving on to Treblinka, had been the first commandant of Sobibor. In this trial, camp commandant Franz Stangl, expelled three years earlier from Brazil, finally stood accused. The second Treblinka trial also known as the Stangl trial, was held from 13 May to 22 December 1970, five years after the first group trial for war crimes. Served 4 years, released, lived another 10 years Released early due to poor health, lived about another decade Served 6 years, released on good behaviour, lived another 6 years Lazarett ('Infirmary,' which actually meant shooting victims) Served 28 years, released, lived another 5 years The verdicts were pronounced on 3 September 1965: Defendants More than 100 witnesses were called, with incriminating evidence presented by Franciszek ZД…becki, a dispatcher employed by the Reichsbahn during the Holocaust train departures from across occupied Poland, proven by original German waybills he collected. The first Treblinka trial began on 12 October 1964 and concerned eleven members of the SS camp personnel, or about a quarter of the total number of SS employed in the extermination of Jews brought aboard Holocaust trains to Treblinka. He was the first to establish the chain of command for Operation Reinhard. Zeug received survivor testimonies from Yad Vashem which allowed him to examine German national archives for more clues. His inquiry led to the first arrest of Treblinka deputy commandant on 2 December 1959. The crimes committed in the General Government territory of occupied Poland were investigated by the Central Agency from July 1959 by the German specialist in the Nazi prosecution Dietrich Zeug, present at the Eichmann trial. On 3 March 1951 Hirtreiter was sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1977). He was charged with participation in the mass-murder of Jews, particularly the killing of more than 10 persons, including infants. Further investigations showed that Hirtreiter had been stationed at the Treblinka extermination camp, where he supervised the victims' disrobement prior to their gassing. Hirtreiter could not be shown to have been criminally involved at Hadamar however, he did confess to having worked in a camp near the Polish village of MaЕ‚kinia where Jews were killed in a gas chamber. Although not focused on Treblinka from the beginning, and not serving as an upbeat to the later Treblinka trials, the Hirtreiter trial is viewed by some historians as being part of these.

In 1946 Josef Hirtreiter was arrested in the course of the Allied investigations into the killing of disabled persons in the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre.

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