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According to Buechner's 1986 book, Dachau: The Hour of the Avenger: An Eyewitness Account, [22] U.S. forces killed 520 German soldiers, including 346 killed on the orders of 1st Lt. Jack Bushyhead, in an alleged mass execution in the coal yard several hours after the first hospital shooting. Buechner did not witness the alleged incident, and ...
The Nationwide Gravesite Locator Archived 2019-05-17 at the Wayback Machine contains the names of numerous executed soldiers, many of them listed as being General Prisoners. The U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775–2006 (payment required) contains the names of numerous executed soldiers, many of them listed as being General Prisoners.
The killing of SS prisoners had become routine at the time for some units. The 90th Infantry Division at the Saar "executed Waffen-SS prisoners in such a systematic manner late in December 1944 that headquarters had to issue express orders to take Waffen-SS soldiers alive so as to be able to obtain information from them". [10]
General Josiah Dalby (with head turned) presides over the Malmedy massacre trial at Dachau. The Malmedy massacre trial (U.S. vs. Valentin Bersin, et al.) was held in May–July 1946 in the former Dachau concentration camp to try the German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy massacre of 17 December 1944.
Curt Bruns (March 12, 1915 – June 15, 1945) was a Wehrmacht captain and war criminal. He was the first German war criminal to be executed by the United States Army for war crimes after World War II.
The murders and disappearances of opponents of the military regime in Brazil were investigated by the National Truth Commission (CNV), by state truth commissions, by human rights entities and by victims' own relatives. In these various investigations, there is a discrepancy in the numbers of deaths and missing persons computed.
[14] [6] On November 10, 1945, Hartgen and the four others were hanged at the prison in Bruchsal. [15] A sixth, Otto Stolz, was convicted and executed in 1947. [16] A second soldier, Franz Umstatter, was tried for his participation in 1946. Witnesses said he stomped on the victims so hard his boots broke, and that he came home with broken boots.
Anton Dostler – Executed by an American firing squad in Italy on December 1, 1945; Adolf Eichmann – Lived for years in Argentina, captured by Israeli agents in 1960, convicted of high crimes against the Jewish nation and humanity, in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962.