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British Army and civilian personnel ran the trials and staffed the prosecution and judges. </p><p>The Belsen trials took place in <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCneburg" title="Lüneburg">Lüneburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, in 1945 and the defendants were men and women of the <i><a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">Schutzstaffel</a></i> as well as prisoner functionaries who had worked at various concentration camps, notably Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. </p><p>The first trial generated considerable interest around the world, as the public heard for the first time from some of those responsible for the mass murder in the eastern extermination camps. Some later trials are also referred to as Belsen trials. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_trial">First trial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: First trial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Belsen_concentration_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Belsen concentration camp">Belsen concentration camp</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BU_003749.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/BU_003749.jpeg/220px-BU_003749.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/BU_003749.jpeg/330px-BU_003749.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/BU_003749.jpeg/440px-BU_003749.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="561" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Josef_Kramer" title="Josef Kramer">Josef Kramer</a>, photographed in <a href="/wiki/Leg_irons" class="mw-redirect" title="Leg irons">leg irons</a> at Belsen before being removed to the POW cage at Celle, 17 April 1945.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hoessler_Franz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hoessler_Franz.jpg/220px-Hoessler_Franz.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hoessler_Franz.jpg/330px-Hoessler_Franz.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hoessler_Franz.jpg/440px-Hoessler_Franz.jpg 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="463" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Franz_H%C3%B6ssler" title="Franz Hössler">Franz Hössler</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp" title="Bergen-Belsen concentration camp">Bergen-Belsen</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Officially called the "Trial of <a href="/wiki/Josef_Kramer" title="Josef Kramer">Josef Kramer</a> and 44 others",<sup id="cite_ref-BergenBelsenTrialTranscripts01_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BergenBelsenTrialTranscripts01-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (May 2016)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> the trial began in a <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCneburg" title="Lüneburg">Lüneburg</a> gymnasium on 17 September 1945, within the British occupation zone.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The defendants were 45 former <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a> men, women and <i><a href="/wiki/Kapo_(concentration_camp)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kapo (concentration camp)">kapos</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Prisoner_functionary" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoner functionary">prisoner functionaries</a>) from the <a href="/wiki/Belsen_concentration_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Belsen concentration camp">Bergen-Belsen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz concentration camps</a>. <a href="/wiki/Josef_Kramer" title="Josef Kramer">Josef Kramer</a> had been camp commandant at Bergen-Belsen and before that at Auschwitz. Of the other defendants, 12 were kapos, 16 female SS members and 16 male SS members. Although the SS was an all-male organisation, women were able to enlist as members of the <i><a href="/wiki/SS-Gefolge_(Women%27s_SS_Division)" title="SS-Gefolge (Women's SS Division)">SS-Gefolge</a></i>, a form of civilian employee. One prisoner functionary, Ladisław Gura, who was also an SS member under arrest, was found to be too ill to stand trial after the trial had started. Three others had been excluded from the list of indicted for the same reason before the trial began.<sup id="cite_ref-BergenBelsenTrialsDay2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BergenBelsenTrialsDay2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (May 2016)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Three SS members had been shot trying to escape after the British took over the camp and one had committed suicide. Out of a total of 77 SS men and women arrested by the British in April, another 17 had died of typhus by 1 June 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Taake112_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Taake112-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Next to Kramer, the most high-profile defendants were <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Klein_(Nazi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fritz Klein (Nazi)">Fritz Klein</a>, who had been <a href="/wiki/Sanit%C3%A4tswesen_(Nazi_camp)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanitätswesen (Nazi camp)">camp doctor</a> at Belsen, and <a href="/wiki/Franz_H%C3%B6ssler" title="Franz Hössler">Franz Hössler</a>, deputy camp commandant. <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Volkenrath" title="Elisabeth Volkenrath">Elisabeth Volkenrath</a> had been <i>Oberaufseherin</i> (head warden or supervising wardress) at Auschwitz before she came to Belsen. Many of the defendants had arrived in Bergen-Belsen only after February 1945, some as late as two days before liberation.<sup id="cite_ref-Wenck40_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wenck40-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, most had been active in similar functions in other concentration camps before that. The trial took place before a <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> military tribunal. The judges were Major-General <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Berney-Ficklin" title="Horatio Berney-Ficklin">H.M.P. Berney-Ficklin</a> (presiding), Brigadier A. de L. Casonove, Colonel G.J. Richards, Lt.-Colonel R.B. Moriush and Lt.-Colonel R. McLay. C.L. Stirling was Judge Advocate. Colonel T.M. Backhouse, Major H.G. Murton-Neale, Capt. S.M. Stewart and Lt.-Col. <a href="/wiki/Leo_Genn" title="Leo Genn">L.J. Genn</a> were Counsel for the Prosecution. Counsel for the Defence were also members of the British Army — in the case of the five Polish defendants a Polish officer, Lt. Jedrezejowicz.<sup id="cite_ref-BergenBelsenTrialTranscriptDay1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BergenBelsenTrialTranscriptDay1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As this was a military court, it was legally based on the <i>Regulations for the Trial of War Criminals made under Royal Warrant</i> of 14 June 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-BergenBelsenTrialTranscriptDay1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BergenBelsenTrialTranscriptDay1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All the charges related to international law, which applied at the time the crimes were committed, so this was not a case of retroactive justice.<sup id="cite_ref-Wenck40_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wenck40-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to the nature of the court, the only charges that could be brought were war crimes and crimes against citizens of the Allied countries. "Crimes against humanity" and "crimes against peace", which featured in the later <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuremberg Trials">trials at Nuremberg</a>, were not among the charges at Lüneburg.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charges">Charges</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The official charges were grouped into crimes committed at Auschwitz and Belsen and were as follows:</p><blockquote><p>At Bergen-Belsen, Germany, between 1st October, 1942, and 30th April, 1945, when members of the staff of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp responsible for the well-being of the persons interned there, in violation of the law and usages of war, were together concerned as parties to the ill-treatment of certain of such persons, causing the deaths of Keith Meyer (a British national), Anna Kis, Sara Kohn (both Hungarian nationals), Heimech Glinovjechy and Maria Konatkevicz (both Polish nationals) and Marcel Freson de Montigny (a French national), Maurice Van Eijnsbergen (a Dutch national), Maurice Van Mevlenaar (a Belgian national), Jan Markowski and Georgej Ferenz (both Polish nationals), Salvatore Verdura (an Italian national), and Therese Klee (a British national of Honduras), Allied nationals, and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown, and physical suffering to other persons interned there, Allied nationals and particularly to Harold Osmund le Druillenec (a British national), Benec Zuchermann, a female internee surnamed Korperova, a female internee named Hoffmann, Luba Rormann, Isa Frydmann (all Polish nationals) and Alexandra Siwidowa, a Russian national and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-BelsenTrialCharges_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BelsenTrialCharges-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>and </p> <blockquote><p>...at Auschwitz, Poland, between 1st October, 1942,and 30th April, 1945, when members of the staff of Auschwitz Concentration Camp responsible for the well-being of the persons interned there, in violation of the law and usages of war, were together concerned as parties to ill-treatment of certain of such persons, causing the deaths of Rachella Silberstein (a Polish national), Allied nationals, and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown, and physical suffering to other persons interned there, Allied nationals, and particularly to Ewa Gryka and Hanka Rosenwayg (both Polish nationals) and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-BelsenTrialCharges_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BelsenTrialCharges-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>All of the defendants pleaded not guilty.<sup id="cite_ref-Taake54_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Taake54-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Overview_of_the_trial">Overview of the trial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Overview of the trial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BU_010366.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/BU_010366.jpeg/220px-BU_010366.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/BU_010366.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="277" /></a><figcaption>Interior shot of the court room ten days before the start of the trial</figcaption></figure> <p>The trial lasted 54 days in court. It began on 17 September with the indictment and the opening speech for the prosecution. Brigadier <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Llewellyn_Glyn_Hughes" title="Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes">Glyn Hughes</a> was the first witness for the prosecution on 18–19 September.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 20 September, the British Army screened a film they had made of the conditions at Belsen immediately after liberation. On 21 September, the court visited Bergen-Belsen. Evidence for the defence began on 8 October with the opening speech for the defendant, Kramer, who also testified. Closing speeches were made from 7–12 November, followed by the closing arguments by the prosecution on 13 November. Sentencing took place four days later, on 17 November 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-BergenBelsenSentences_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BergenBelsenSentences-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the trial was conducted in English, translations into German and Polish were necessary. This was one of the factors which prolonged the trial, which had initially been expected to last for two to four weeks. In retrospect, the prosecution has been criticised as hasty and ill-prepared. None of the SS guards who had fled the camp after the ceasefire on 13 April had been searched for. Instead of eyewitness testimony, in some cases only affidavits were available at the trial. Some witnesses contradicted themselves on cross-examination, while others failed to identify the defendants as the perpetrators of the crimes in question. One former inmate, Oskar Schmitz, was erroneously charged as an SS man, and had no chance to clarify this before the trial began.<sup id="cite_ref-Kolb58_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kolb58-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wenck42_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wenck42-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The defence claimed that the arrest of the defendants had been illegal, as it contravened the promise of free withdrawal contained in the ceasefire agreement. However, the wording on this point was only clear for members of the Wehrmacht at Belsen. Moreover, according to the prosecution, the burning of the camp files by the SS and the firing of shots on 15 April had voided the agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-Kolb54_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kolb54-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, the relevant section of the ceasefire agreement read: </p> <blockquote><p>SS guard personnel [...] will be treated as PW. SS Adj personnel will [...] remain at their posts and carry on with their duties (cooking, supplies, etc) and will hand over records. When their services can be dispensed with, their disposal is left by the Wehrmacht to the British authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-New_Exhibition_Guide257_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Exhibition_Guide257-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>On 17 November, the court sentenced 11 of the defendants to death by hanging.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another 18 were found guilty and sentenced to prison sentences of one to 15 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One defendant, <a href="/wiki/Erich_Zoddel" title="Erich Zoddel">Erich Zoddel</a>, was sentenced to life in prison,<sup id="cite_ref-BergenBelsenSentences_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BergenBelsenSentences-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was then executed 13 days later. Zoddel had been sentenced to death in a separate military trial in August 1945 for murdering a female prisoner after the liberation.<sup id="cite_ref-Zoddel_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zoddel-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> None of the sentenced were only found guilty of the "conspiracy" of working within the concentration camp system, but rather all of them were sentenced for individually committed crimes.<sup id="cite_ref-Wenck41_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wenck41-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 14 defendants were acquitted<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (the final defendant was too sick to stand trial). Due to clemency pleas and appeals, many prison sentences were eventually shortened considerably. By mid-1955, all those sentenced to prison had been released.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Individual_defendants_and_sentences">Individual defendants and sentences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Individual defendants and sentences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>List of SS-defendants</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg/170px-Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg/255px-Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg/340px-Fritz_Klein_Belsen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1239" data-file-height="1852" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Klein" title="Fritz Klein">Fritz Klein</a> surrounded by bodies. The British Army liberating Bergen-Belsen forced German camp personnel to bury the corpses of prisoners.</figcaption></figure> <p>(A=guilty of crimes at Auschwitz, B = guilty of crimes at Bergen-Belsen)<sup id="cite_ref-DefendantTable_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DefendantTable-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th align="left">Name </th> <th align="left">Sentence </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Josef_Kramer" title="Josef Kramer">Josef Kramer</a> (A, B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Klein_(Nazi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fritz Klein (Nazi)">Fritz Klein</a> (A, B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weing%C3%A4rtner" class="extiw" title="de:Peter Weingärtner">Peter Weingärtner</a> (A, B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Franz_H%C3%B6ssler" title="Franz Hössler">Franz Hössler</a> (A) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Francioh" class="extiw" title="de:Karl Francioh">Karl Franzioh</a> (B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansgar_Pichen" class="extiw" title="de:Ansgar Pichen">Ansgar Pichen</a> (B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Franz_Stofel" title="Franz Stofel">Franz Stofel</a> (or Stärfl) (B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_D%C3%B6rr_(Nazi)" title="Wilhelm Dörr (Nazi)">Wilhelm Dörr</a> (B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Irma_Grese" title="Irma Grese">Irma Grese</a> (A, B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Volkenrath" title="Elisabeth Volkenrath">Elisabeth Volkenrath</a> (A, B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Juana_Bormann" title="Juana Bormann">Johanna Bormann</a> (B) </td> <td>Death, executed on 13 December 1945 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Otto Kulessa (B) </td> <td>15 years, released on 7 May 1955 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Heinrich Schreirer (A) </td> <td>15 years, released on 3 September 1950 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Herta_Ehlert" title="Herta Ehlert">Herta Ehlert</a> (B) </td> <td>15 years, reduced to 12 years, released on 7 May 1953 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ilse Förster (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 21 December 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Herta_Bothe" title="Herta Bothe">Herta Bothe</a> (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 21 December 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Irene_Haschke" title="Irene Haschke">Irene Haschke</a> (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 21 December 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gertrud Sauer (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 21 December 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Anna Hempel (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 21 April 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gertrud Feist (B) </td> <td>5 years, released on 11 August 1949 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Frieda Walter (B) </td> <td>3 years, released on 16 November 1948 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hilde Lisiewicz (B) </td> <td>1 year, released on 16 November 1946 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Georg Krafft </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Josef Klippel </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Fritz Mathes </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Karl Egersdörfer </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Walter Otto </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Erich Barsch </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ida Förster </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Klara Opitz </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Charlotte Klein </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hildegard Hähnel </td> <td>Acquitted </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Not able to stand trial due to illness: Nikolaus Jänner, Paul Steinmetz, Walter Melcher, Ladisław Gura (who was both an SS member and a prison functionary). </p><p><b>List of Kapos</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Erich_Zoddel.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Erich_Zoddel.jpeg/220px-Erich_Zoddel.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Erich_Zoddel.jpeg/330px-Erich_Zoddel.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Erich_Zoddel.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="340" data-file-height="327" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Erich_Zoddel" title="Erich Zoddel">Erich Zoddel</a> in Allied custody after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen</figcaption></figure> <p>(A=guilty of crimes at Auschwitz, B = guilty of crimes at Bergen-Belsen)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BelsenTrialList_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BelsenTrialList-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th align="left">Name </th> <th align="left">Sentence </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Erich_Zoddel" title="Erich Zoddel">Erich Zoddel</a> (B) </td> <td>Life imprisonment, but executed for an unrelated charge on 30 November 1945<sup id="cite_ref-CampStaff_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CampStaff-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Wladisław Ostrowski (B) </td> <td>15 years, released on 24 June 1955 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Helena Kopper (B) </td> <td>15 years, reduced to 10 years, released on 26 February 1952 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilde_Lohbauer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hilde Lohbauer (page does not exist)">Hilde Lohbauer</a> (A, B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 15 July 1950 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Antoni Aurdzig (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 20 March 1952 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Johanne Roth (B) </td> <td>10 years, released on 15 July 1950 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Stanisława Starostka (A) </td> <td>10 years, committed suicide in prison on 10 May 1946 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Medislaw Burgraf (B) </td> <td>5 years, released on 11 August 1949 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ilse Lothe </td> <td>Acquitted (charged with B) </td></tr> <tr> <td>Oskar Schmitz </td> <td>Acquitted (charged with B) </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ignatz Schlomowicz </td> <td>Acquitted (charged with B) </td></tr> <tr> <td>Anton Polanski </td> <td>Acquitted (charged with B) </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ladisław Gura </td> <td>Unable to stand trial (accused of B) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_reaction">Public reaction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Public reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Belsen Trial attracted substantial national and international media interest. Significantly, more than 100 representatives of the news media reported at length on the trial's progress.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through them, the world learned not just about the thousands of deaths by hunger and disease at Belsen, communicated especially forcefully by the film and photo evidence produced by the British Army. Possibly even more importantly, the Belsen trial also was the first time that the organised mass murder at Auschwitz Birkenau received a public airing, with some of those responsible describing the selection process, the use of the gas chambers and the crematoria. In Great Britain, the trial was mostly viewed positively, as a triumph of the rule of law, given the fairness and meticulousness with which it had been conducted. However, in some other countries, notably the Soviet Union and France, the verdicts were criticised as too mild. Many survivors also felt this way.<sup id="cite_ref-Memorial_Guide37_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Memorial_Guide37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Executions">Executions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Executions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>All the executions were carried out on 13 December 1945 by hanging at <a href="/wiki/Hamelin_Prison" title="Hamelin Prison">Hamelin Prison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The executioner was <a href="/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint" title="Albert Pierrepoint">Albert Pierrepoint</a>, aided by an assistant. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_trial">Second trial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Second trial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A second Belsen trial was conducted at Lüneburg from 13 to 18 June 1946 by a British military tribunal. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th align="left">Name </th> <th align="left">Sentence </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Quakernack" title="Walter Quakernack">Walter Quakernack</a> </td> <td>Death, executed on 11 October 1946 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Heinz-Züder Heidemann </td> <td>Death, executed on 11 October 1946 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Karl Redehase </td> <td>Death, executed on 11 October 1946 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kasimir Cegielski </td> <td>Death, executed on 11 October 1946 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Theodor Wagner </td> <td>20 years, released on 24 December 1954 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Karl Schmidt </td> <td>15 years, reduced to 10 years, released on 21 December 1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gertrud_Heise" title="Gertrud Heise">Gertrud Heise</a> </td> <td>15 years, reduced to 7 years </td></tr> <tr> <td>Martha Linke </td> <td>12 years, reduced to 7 years </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Anneliese_Kohlmann" title="Anneliese Kohlmann">Anneliese Kohlmann</a> </td> <td>2 years, released on 16 June 1946 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Third_trial">Third trial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Third trial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The British held a third Belsen trial in April 1948. There was only one defendant, Ernst Julius Curt Meyer. Meyer had been arrested in May 1945, but was erroneously released in September 1947. He was re-arrested in February 1948. Meyer was found guilty of war crimes for non-fatal abuse and sentenced to life in prison. His sentence was reduced to 21 years in 1950, and he was released from prison on 24 December 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allied_Control_Council" title="Allied Control Council">Allied Control Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subsequent_Nuremberg_Trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Subsequent Nuremberg Trials">Subsequent Nuremberg Trials</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belsen_trials&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-BergenBelsenTrialTranscripts01-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BergenBelsenTrialTranscripts01_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bergenbelsen.co.uk/pages/TrialTranscript/Trial_Contents.html">"Transcript of the Official Shorthand Notes of 'The Trial of Josef Kramer and Forty Four Others"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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