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After Moll's conviction, Major Draper, a British military prosecutor, sent an urgent request for an interview to the commandant of Landsberg Prison, where Moll was awaiting execution. He requested an interview with him, saying the world needed to know what he had done in Auschwitz.
In five and half years, Landsberg Prison was the place of execution of 252 condemned war criminals, all of them by hanging. [4] Executions were carried out expeditiously. In May 1946, 28 former SS guards from Dachau were hanged within a four-day period. [ 5 ]
By the end of April 1945, a total of about 30,000 prisoners had passed through the camps, including 4200 women and 850 children. [2] In just ten months, according to estimates from early post-war times , at least 14,500 prisoners died from hunger, epidemics, executions, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on a death March .
About 30,000 prisoners passed through the Kaufering camps, [5] [10] [8] including 4,200 women and 850 children. [5] This dwarfed the population of the surrounding area; only 10,000 people lived in the Landsberg area. [27] Almost all of the prisoners were Jews. [2] [13] The majority of the prisoners came from Hungary or the areas annexed by ...
Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal notorious for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald.Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, [1] she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".
In 1944, she volunteered with the SS as an Aufseherin, [1] a concentration camp overseer, in the Stutthof SK-III women's subcamp in Poland, where she brutalized prisoners, sometimes to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers. [2] She was so merciless that the women prisoners nicknamed her the Beautiful Spectre. [2]
Irma Ilse Ida Grese was born to Berta Grese and Alfred Grese, both dairy workers, on 7 October 1923. Irma was the third eldest (three sisters and two brothers). [7] In 1936, her mother committed suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid following the discovery of Alfred’s affair with a local pub owner's daughter. [8]