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Auschwitz Memorial (auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 18:35:28 JST Auschwitz Memorial

24 November 1947 | The First Auschwitz Trial began in Kraków, when Polish authorities (the Supreme National Tribunal) tried 40 former staff of the Auschwitz camp. The trial ended on 22 December 22, 1947.
The tribunal issued 23 death sentences & 16 imprisonments ranging from life sentences to 3 years. One person was acquitted. All executions were carried out in a Kraków prison in January 1948.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_trial
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  The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Poland's Supreme National Tribunal tried forty former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947.The best-known defendants were Arthur Liebehenschel, former commandant; Maria Mandel, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served as guards or doctors in the camps were also tried. Verdict of the Supreme National Tribunal in the first Auschwitz trial Torturing of prisoners [of Auschwitz] already tormented to the extreme [by extrajudicial means], is the evidence of inhuman savagery perpetrated by those defendants who as a result of the trial were sentenced to death. The listed violent crimes committed by named defendants, who all took smaller or larger part in the mass murder of prisoners, also reveal that the accused were involved in the acts of killing for pleasure, and not pursuant to orders of their superiors. If it were not for their...

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