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| Indictment |
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| First Day
— Monday, 17th September, 1945 |
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The Order
convening the Court was read.
The President, members, Judge Advocate,
shorthand writers and interpreters were duly sworn. |
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| INDICTMENT¹ |
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| The accused,
Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Peter Weingartner, George Kraft, Hoessler
alias Hessler, alias Essler, Juana Bormann, Elisabeth Volkenrath,
Herta Ehlert, Irma Grese, Ilse Lothe, Hilde Lobauer alias Lohbauer,
Josef Klippel, Nikolas Jenner alias Jonner, Oscar Schmedidzt
alias Schmitz, Paul Steinmetz, Karl Flrazich alias Franzische,
Ladislaw Gura, Fritz Mathes, Otto Calesson alias Kulessa, Medislaw Burgraf,
Karl Egersdorf, Anchor Pinchen, Walter Otto, Walter Melcher, Franz Stofel,
Heinrich Schreirer, Wilhelm Dor, Eric Barsch alias Basch, Erich Zoddel,
Ignatz Schlomoivicz, Vladislav Ostrowoski alias Ostrowski, Antoni
Aurdzieg, Ilse Forster, Ida Forster, Klara Opitz, Charlotte Klein, Herta Bothe,
Frieda Walter, Irene Haschke, Gertrude Fiest, Gertrude Sauer, Hilde Lisiewitz,
Johanne Roth, Anna Hempel, Hildegard Hahnel, Helena Kopper, Anton Polanski,
being in the charge of 5th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall’s Light
Infantry, pursuant to Regulation 4 of the “Regulations for the trial of
War Criminals,” are charged with |
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| COMMITTING A
WAR CRIME |
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| IN THAT
THEY |
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1st
Charge.
At Bergen-Belsen, Germany, between 1st October, 1942, and
30th April, 1945, when members of the staff of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
responsible for the well-being of the persons interned there, in violation of
the law and usages of war, were together concerned as parties to the
ill-treatment of certain of such persons, causing the deaths of Keith Meyer (a
British national), Anna Kis, Sara Kohn (both Hungarian nationals), Heimech
Glinovjechy and Maria Konatkevicz (both Polish nationals) and Marcel Freson de
Montigny (a French national), Maurice Van Eijnsbergen (a Dutch national),
Maurice Van Mevlenaar (a Belgian national), Jan Markowski and Georgej Ferenz
(both Polish nationals), Salvatore Verdura (an Italian national), and Therese
Klee (a British national of Honduras), Allied nationals, and other Allied
nationals whose |
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¹ In the Trial the following accused have been otherwise named
(a) No. 16. Flrazich = Francioh, (b) No 22. Pinchen = Ansgar
Pichen, (c) No. 27. Dor = Dorr, (d) No. 40. Gertrude Fiest =
Gertrud Fiest, (e) No. 41. Gertrude Sauer = Gertrud Sauer, (f)
No. 48. Staroska=Starostka. |
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