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TRIAL OF JOSEF KRAMER
AND FORTY-FOUR OTHERS

(The Belsen Trial) .
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 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
   Facing page
No. 30 Lindenstrase, Lüneburg, scene of the Belsen Trial   xlviii
Interior view of the court-room   xlviii
The prisoners in the dock    1
The accused wearing their number plaques; Kramer, the Kommandant, is No. 1   1
The barracks where the German personnel lived; contrast the conditions here with those in Camp No. 1   32
The main square in Camp No. 2   32
Camp No. 1 from look-out tower used by German guards   33
Accumulated rubbish piled round the huts of Camp No 1   33
Plan of Belsen Camp No. 1   56
As the victims die, they are carried to the piles of bodies   64
The unbelievable squalor of Camp No. 1    64
Those who died in the night are cleared out of the huts in the morning   65
The only source of water for all purposes for the inmates: foul- smelling, stagnant, and with dead bodies floating in it   65
The living, the dying, and the dead are herded together in the huts   96
The appalling congestion prevailing inside the huts   96
Inside the so-called hospital most of the inmates are dying   97
Emaciation and disease inside the hospital    97
One of the victims of typhus inside a hut    104
Utter squalor prevails in the living quarters   104
Members of the S.S. were made to clean up the camp and bury the dead   105
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S.S. women were also made to work. These women were the equivalent of the men for brutality   105
An emaciated woman cooking a meal of sorts   120
An Hungarian inmate, transformed by starvation   120
Women peeling potatoes in the background are piles of dead bodies.    121
The boots of the dead are piled up and used for fuel   121
A common sight in the camp; dead and dying are strewn everywhere   128
Too weak to walk, he sits on a mound to die   128
So great is the task that bulldozers have to be used to push bodies into mass graves   129
The incredible emaciation of bodies not long dead can hardly be believed   129
The living and the dead keep company in the same compound   160
Bodies left to rot in part of Belsen Camp   160
The entrance gate to Auschwitz ; note the motto, “Arbeit macht frei”    161
Inside Auschwitz Camp; the bodies of dead prisoners tell their own tale of horror   161
An inmate of Auschwitz hospital after the liberation   192
The tragic condition of children in Auschwitz   192
Margit Schwartz photographed in Budapest just prior to being taken by the Gestapo   193
Margit Schwartz, helpless and with her mind unhinged, climbed out of bed unaided when she saw the camera   193
Block 11, Auschwitz : the “wall of death” and the gallows   224
S.S. troops loading bodies on to lorries for transporting to the burial ground   224
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The accused Franz Hoessler with a truckload of his work   225
The “super” S. S. men, exhausted, are allowed to rest in a grave    225
S.S. women removing bodies from lorries into a communal grave   256
One of the communal graves in Belsen   256
Dr. Klein seen amongst some of his victims   257
S.S. men taking corpses from lorries to the mass graves   257
A young child joins the victims of the Nazis   288
Rehabilitating the children after the liberation; Miss Reekie hands out the glasses of milk   288
No.  1 — Josef Kramer   289
No.  2 — Fritz Klein   289
No.  3 — Peter Weingartner   289
No.  4 — George Kraft   289
No.  5 — Franz, Hoessler    352
No.  6 — Juana Bormann   352
No.  7 — Elisabeth Volkenrath   352
No.  8 — Herta Ehlert   352
No.  9 — Irma Grese   353
No. 10 — Ilse Lothe   353
No. 11 — Hilde Lohbauer   353
No. 14 — Oscar Schmitz   353
No. 16 — Karl Francioh   384
No. 18 — Fritz Mathes   384
No. 19 — Otto Kulessa    384
No. 21 — Karl Egersdorf   384
No. 22 — Ansgar Pichen  385
No. 23 — Walter Otto  385
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No. 25 — Franz Stofel    385
No. 27 — Wilhelm Dorr   385
No. 28 — Eric Barsch    416
No. 29 — Erich Zoddel    416
No. 30 — Ignatz Schlomoivicz   416
No. 31 — Vladislav Ostrowski   416
No. 33 — Ilse Forster    417
No. 34 — Ida Forster   417
No. 35 — Clara Opitz   417
No. 36 — Charlotte Klein    417
No. 37 — Herta Bothe   448
No. 38 — Frieda Walter   448
No. 39 — Irene Haschke    448
No. 40 — Gertrud Feist   448
No 41 — Gertrud Sauer   449
No. 42 — Hilde Lisiewitz   449
No. 44 — Anna Hempel    449
No. 46 — Helena Kopper   449
Map showing concentration camps throughout Germany and the occupied territories   End of Book
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