Belsen Trial

Chemistry - Belsen Trial:

'via Blog this'The verdicts were as follows:

• Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein , Peter Weingartner, Franz Hössler, Juana Bormann, Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Karl Francioh, Anchor Pichen, Franz Stofel, and Wilhelm Dorr were sentenced to death by hanging.
• Erich Zoddel was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment.
• Deputy warden Herta Ehlert, Otto Calesson, Heinrich Schreirer, kapo Helena Kopper, and Vladislaw Ostrovski were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
• Kapo Hildegard Lohbauer, and guards Ilse Forster, Herta Bothe, Irene Haschke, Gertrud Sauer, Johanne Roth, Anna Hempel, Stanislawa Staroska, and Antoni Aurdzieg were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
• Gertrude Fiest, and Medislaw Burgraf were sentenced to 5 years, Frieda Walter to 3 years, and Hilde Lisiewitz to one year.
• Georg Kraft, Josef Klippel, kapo Ilse Lothe, Oscar Schmitz, Fritz Mathes, Karl Egersdorf, Walter Otto, Eric Barsch, Ignatz Schlomovicz, Ida Forster, Klara Opitz, Charlotte Klein, Hildegard Hahnel, and Antoni Polanski were acquitted.
• One defendant, Ladislaw Gura, was removed from the trial due to illness.

All the executions were carried out on December 13 1945 by hanging at the prison in Hameln.