What happens when the Germans judge to German murderers ( III )

Willi Schatz

February 1, 1905 Hannover, Germany – February 17, 1985 Hannover,Germany) was a Nazi SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant) as a SS-KZ Zahnarzt(Concentration Camp Dentist) who served in Auschwitz and Neuengamme.

From January 20, 1944 until the fall of 1944 he became the second in charge by his superior, SS-KZ Zahnarzt Willi Frank at Auschwitz. He was then transferred to Neuengamme where he served until the war’s end in the same function.

He was acquitted on August 20, 1965  ( ¡! ) Schatz died, in liberty, from cancer on February 17, 1985.

Hans Stark

June 14, 1921, Darmstadt – March 29, 1991, Darmstadt) was an SS–Untersturmführer and head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration camp

At the rank of SS-Unterscharführer, Stark was posted to Auschwitz at the end of 1940 and worked as a Blockführer (Block leader).^] In 1941 he was brought into the Political Department and became head of the admissions detail.

Stark also participated in the gassing of prisoners, specifically, the first gassing of prisoners in the small crematorium at the main camp. In a similar manner to his participation in the shootings, Stark stated that he was ordered by Grabner to check the amount of prisoners. Around 200 – 250 Jewish men, women and children were ordered to enter the gas chamber. As they did so, medical orderlies climbed up the earth banks by the crematorium in order to get onto the roof of the gas chamber, from where they could insert the Zyklon B gas via vents in the roof;  something which Stark admitted doing  

In August 1965, he was found guilty of at least 44 instances of joint-murder, and sentenced to ten years in prison:

He was released from prison in 1968 (¡!), and died on March 29, 1991, in his hometown

 Karl-Friedrich Höcker 

 (Engershausen, Preußisch Oldendorf, Germany, December 11, 1911 – Germany, January 30, 2000) was an SS Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) and attached to Richard Baer, one of the commanders of the concentration camp Auschwitz .

 

In 1943, he served as deputy Full Function Commander Majdanek-Lublin during “Operation Reinhard”, namely mass deportations and murders. Later he was appointed Deputy Baer, ​​in 1944, who had just been appointed CEO in concentration camp Auschwitz I,. Höcker remained in Auschwitz until the evacuation,

   

In the early 1960s, was arrested by West German authorities in his hometown, where he was a bank manager functions. Notably, the Bank had re-enlisted in their duties and promoted to a higher position that before the war.

 

 

Sentenced to seven years in prison, however he was released in 1970 (¡!) and allowed to return to his post in the bank as Head of the  Banking Cash Section.

What happens when the Germans judge to German murderers ( II )

Some of the criminal that were judged in Frankfurt (Germany) from October 1963 to August 1965, their crimes, their sentences and the time they were in jail.

 

Victor Capesius

 

(February 7, 1907 Reußmarkt, Transylvania (Hungary) – March 20, 1985 Göppingen, Germany) was a Nazi SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) and KZ-Apotheker (concentration camp pharmacist) in the concentration camps of Dachau (1943–1944) and Auschwitz (1944-1945).

 

He was sent to Dachau Concentration Camp in September 1943; he worked there until his subsequent transfer to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in February 1944. In Auschwitz, he acted as the attending KZ-Apotheker (pharmacist) until the camp was evacuated in January 1945. Capesius worked closely with Josef Mengele and together they were heavily involved in the selection of inmates for the gas chamber. In Auschwitz, he had risen to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer, in November 1944, and was in charge and control of the chemicals used in the extermination of the Jews, such asphenol and Zyklon B. This, it should be noted, was during the mass murder of almost 400,000 Hungarian Jews

 

On August 20, 1965 he was indicted in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials by the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main Community for aiding and abetting the murder of at least four cases of 2,000 people and convicted to nine years in prison. Capesius served three years and was released from prison in January 1968. (¡!)

 

Klaus Dylewski

Was born in German Empire, Finkenwalde (now Zdroje, Szczecin, Poland), on May 11, 1916

 

 

 

In September 1940, he was transferred to Auschwitz and was assigned by the Concentration Camps Inspectorate in the Political Department of Auschwitz. From the day of his assignment until 1944, he participated in shootings, torture, and gassings in the Department.

 

He was tried and found guilty of “aiding and abetting murder on 32 separate occasions, 2 involving the murder of at least 750 people” and was sentenced to five years imprisonment. Dylewski was released in 1968 by the court, having served only three years in prison. (¡!)

 

Emil Hantl

 

Born 14 Decembre 1902 in Mährisch- Lotschnau. Died 18 August 1984 in Plochingen (Germany )

 

 

Belonging to th staff of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz III, murdered inmates through injections. Sentenced to 3,5 years imprisonment at the Auschitz trial in Frankfurt am Main but  released by the time spent in custody. (¡!)

 

What happens when the Germans judge to German murderers ( I )

Any informed person knows what were the Nuremberg trials. Few know that there were several Nuremberg trials and fewer still know that there were trials in other cities to punish the German murderers who committed atrocities ever seen in the history of mankind.

Let’s focus on one of the subsequent trials at Nuremberg trial. Specifically the Trial held in Frankfurt (Germany) from October 1963 to August 1965. Nearly 20 years after the end of the war and which was judged several of the worst   sadistic murderers of Auscwitz extermination camp.

The first surprise is how it took so long to try them and the second is that all led a normal life in Germany before his arrest, well received by the Germans and some even working in the German administration.

The sentences in most cases were ridiculous and adding injury to insult, most were released before they were fulfilled.

Here I attach a table that reflects the time in prison to which they were convicted and the time they were in prison.

We’re talking about the worst murderers that the human mind can conceive. Individus that killed dozens of children in a day injecting poison into the heart, after sitting them, holding their hands and blindfolded. We speak of the Birkenau camp commander. We talked about who selected when the people went down off the train (after several trips horrific days without water or food) who would die instantly gassed or  would die slowly in forced labor. We talk about men that separated the daughters of mothers, sisters, parents, families, we talk about entities to which hardly can be called human beings and yet were welcomed by the German population after the war with love and understanding and some, very old, still live unmolested in Germany.

 

In later posts I will give details of the horrible crimes that each of these murderers committed and the incredible kindness with which German judges judged them.