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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...
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    Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, known in German as Der Auschwitz-Prozess, or Der zweite Auschwitz-Prozess (literally, the 'second Auschwitz trial'), was a...
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    Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz)...
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    Jewish prisoners committed at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and sentenced to death at the Belsen trial. Executed at 22 years of age...
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    permissible. Auschwitz Trial held in Kraków, Poland in 1947 against 40 SS-staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, 1963–1965...
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  • of war crimes at the 1947 Auschwitz trial in Kraków, where many inmates testified in his favour. After the war and the trial, he returned to Germany and...
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    1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World...
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    Hans Aumeier (category Auschwitz trial executions)
    concentration camp and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. One of the most important criminals at Auschwitz, Aumeier was extradited to Poland, where...
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    Therese Brandl (category Auschwitz trial executions)
    opened Auschwitz II extermination camp at Birkenau. Brandl was convicted of crimes against humanity after the war during the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków...
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  • Luise Danz (category People convicted in the Auschwitz trial)
    World War II. Danz was captured in 1945 and put on trial for crimes against humanity at the Auschwitz trial in Kraków, Poland. She was sentenced to life imprisonment...
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  • concentration camps, including Plaszów, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Malchow. Danz was brought to trial in 1996, but the charges were dismissed due to...
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    Maximilian Grabner (category Auschwitz trial executions)
    October 1905 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian Gestapo chief in Auschwitz. At Auschwitz he was in command of the torture chamber Block 11, where he gained...
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    Johann Kremer (category People convicted in the Auschwitz trial)
    human experimentation on the prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was sentenced to death in the Auschwitz Trial, but this sentence was later commuted to...
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    Stefan Baretzki (category People convicted in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials)
    the lowest-ranking of the twenty-four defendants in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. His murders were sensationalized in the German press, taking the focus...
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    Maria Mandl (category Auschwitz trial executions)
    known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she is believed to have been directly...
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  • March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting...
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  • Hildegard Lächert (category People convicted in the Auschwitz trial)
    in a Kraków, Poland courtroom, along with 40 other SS guards in the Auschwitz trial. Lächert sat next to three other former SS women, Alice Orlowski, Therese...
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  • prosecutor, that it is the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt – prosecuting former SS members for crimes at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Despite facing...
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    Arthur Liebehenschel (category Auschwitz trial executions)
    ; 25 November 1901 – 24 January 1948) was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust. After the war,...
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  • Trial (also known as the First Auschwitz Trial, with the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials known as the Second Auschwitz Trial) took place in Kraków from 24 November...
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  • Franz Lucas (category People convicted in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials)
    story. On the 87th day of the trial, Helen Goldmann, a Jewish girl originally from Czechoslovakia who was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, testified that...
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    chamber. Auschwitz trial held in Kraków, Poland in 1947 against 40 SS-staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory Belsen trial Belzec trial before...
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  • of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials; trial of 22 staff members from Auschwitz, first criminal trial of Holocaust...
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  • Alice Orlowski (category People convicted in the Auschwitz trial)
    and extradited to Poland to stand trial for war crimes. The "picture book SS woman" stood accused at the Auschwitz Trial in 1947. She was sentenced to 15...
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    at Auschwitz. The album's existence had been known publicly since at least the 1960s, when it was used as evidence at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. Nazi-hunter...
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    Karl-Friedrich Höcker (category People convicted in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials)
    promoted him after a long absence. At his trial in Frankfurt, part of the noted Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, Höcker denied having participated in the selection...
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    was usually imposed for a period of 10 days. Auschwitz survivor Josef Kral testified at the Auschwitz Trials about the standing cells where he had been...
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    Auschwitz II to the gas chamber. The 193 photographs became known as the Auschwitz Album. It was used as evidence in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (1963–1965)...
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  • Hans Hofmeyer (category Auschwitz trial)
    the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main. During the first Auschwitz trial at Frankfurt, Hofmeyer lived in Bad Vilbel. During the trial, he declined...
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  • The Accountant of Auschwitz is a Canadian documentary film, produced by Ricki Gurwitz and Ric Esther Bienstock and directed by Matthew Shoychet. The film...
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