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He was executed by long-drop hanging by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin Prison on 8 October 1946. The second commandant SS-Sturmbannführer Paul-Werner Hoppe (August 1942 – January 1945) was apprehended in 1953 in West Germany and later sentenced to nine years imprisonment.
In 1946, she became a defendant in the first Stutthof Trial, where she and other defendants were convicted for their crimes at the camp. [2] After she was found guilty she declared, "Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short." [3] Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging.
Stutthof crematoria after liberation, 9 May 1945 Clothes of victims of Stutthof concentration camp, 9 May 1945 Electrified barbed wire fences at Stutthof, 9 May 1945. There was a controversy regarding whether corpses from Stutthof were used in the production of soap made from human corpses at the lab of Professor Rudolf Spanner. [18] [19]
On 5 October 1944, she arrived at Stutthof's Russoschin subcamp, in present-day northern Poland. Klaff fled the camp in early 1945 but on 11 June 1945 was arrested by Polish officials; soon after, she fell ill from typhoid fever in prison. She stood trial at the first Stutthof trial with other former female supervisors and male personnel. [4]
97-year-old Irmgard Furchner was convicted by a German court of being an accessory to murder for her work as a secretary at the Nazi Stutthof death camp. 97-year-old convicted over her complicity ...
Stutthof personnel executions in Biskupia Górka, 4 July 1946. Steinhoff is on the left. On 25 May 1945, Steinhoff was arrested and imprisoned by Polish officials. She was tried at the first Stutthof Trial with other Schutzstaffel (SS) female staff and kapos. During her trial, Steinhoff repeatedly smiled and joked with her co-defendants.
The German Federal Court upheld a 99-year-old woman's conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War Two. In 2022 ...
Elisabeth Becker was publicly executed 4 July 1946 at Biskupia Gorka. After working in the camp for four months, Becker fled on 15 January 1945 and returned home to Neuteich. Three months later, on 13 April, Polish police arrested her and placed her in prison to await trial.