During the Dachau liberation reprisals, German SS troops were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp...
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The Dachau trials, also known as the Dachau Military Tribunal, handled the prosecution of almost every war criminal captured in the U.S. military zones...
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48°16′08″N 11°28′07″E / 48.26889°N 11.46861°E / 48.26889; 11.46861 Dachau (UK: /ˈdæxaʊ/, /-kaʊ/; US: /ˈdɑːxaʊ/, /-kaʊ/) was one of the first concentration...
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war crimes were the subjects of the Malmedy massacre trial (May–July 1946), which was a part of the Dachau trials (1945–1947). Late in the Second World...
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The Malmedy massacre trial (U.S. vs. Valentin Bersin, et al.) was held in May–July 1946 in the former Dachau concentration camp to try the German Waffen-SS...
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The Dachau Uprising was a revolt of Jewish prisoners in 1945 against Schutzstaffel (SS) guards in Dachau concentration camp during World War II. It happened...
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Martin Gottfried Weiss (category Dachau concentration camp personnel)
alternatively spelled Weiß (3 June 1905 – 29 May 1946), was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from...
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were actually hanged. In the days that followed, 149 men were sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where 101 died. In total, the actions of the Wehrmacht...
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Adolf Diekmann (category Oradour-sur-Glane massacre)
the Waffen SS during World War II who orchestrated the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France on 10 June 1944. Under Diekmann's command, troops from the SS...
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The Gardelegen massacre was a massacre perpetrated by the locals (Volkssturm, Hitlerjugend and local firefighters) of the northern German town of Gardelegen...
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Joachim Peiper (category People convicted in the Malmedy massacre trial)
to the Dachau Concentration Camp, where a military tribunal would hear their war-crime cases. In the 16 May – 16 July 1946 period, at the Dachau Concentration...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Völkermord an de europäische Jude)
labor camps in German-occupied Poland with their inhabitants massacred, such as the Wola Massacre, or deported to extermination camps for fear of additional...
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Holocaust victims (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
genocide while others were not), some died in concentration camps such as Dachau and others from various forms of Nazi brutality. According to extensive...
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Kaufering concentration camp complex (category Dachau concentration camp)
Kaufering was a system of eleven subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp which operated between 18 June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located...
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With the invasion of Poland, Theodor Eicke – who was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, inspector of the camps, and murderer of Ernst Röhm –...
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Fabian von Schlabrendorff (category Dachau concentration camp survivors)
Flossenbürg, then Dachau near Munich. In late April 1945 he was transferred to Tyrol together with about 140 other prominent inmates of Dachau, where the SS-Guards...
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Nazi concentration camps (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Dachau Mauthausen Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen...
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United States war crimes (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
for you to 'hurry back'. You did what you had to do.": 84 3. The Dachau massacre and other reprisal killings of concentration camp guards and trustee...
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The massacres in Piaśnica were a series of mass murders carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II, between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 in...
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Alexander Piorkowski (1904–1948), commander of Dachau concentration camp, sentenced to death at the Dachau trials. Paul Pleiger (1899–1985), General Director...
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murdered in Nazi Concentration camps. Dachau was established in March 1933 as the first Nazi Concentration Camp. Dachau was chiefly a political camp and an...
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Xavier de Hauteclocque [fr] was an award-winning journalist who covered the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, visited the concentration camp at Dachau, and...
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Otto Rahn (category Dachau concentration camp personnel)
assigned guard duty at the Dachau concentration camp in order to "toughen him up". Deeply concerned by what he had witnessed in Dachau, Rahn offered his resignation...
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The foibe massacres (Italian: massacri delle foibe; Slovene: poboji v fojbah; Croatian: masakri fojbe), or simply the foibe, refers to mass killings and...
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Frank Sheeran (category Perpetrators of World War II prisoner of war massacres)
the line and for you to 'hurry back'. You did what you had to do." The Dachau reprisals and other reprisal killings of Nazi concentration camp guards...
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hostages from members of the SS, who had escorted their truck convoy from Dachau concentration camp to Niederdorf in South Tyrol, during the last days of...
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SS-Totenkopfverbände (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
throughout Germany and later in occupied Europe. Camps in Germany included Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Buchenwald; camps elsewhere in Europe included Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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Bavarian State Police (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
BPAs are situated in Munich, Eichstätt, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Königsbrunn, Dachau and Sulzbach-Rosenberg and have 10 companies as the state’s mobile police...
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in France (numbers may be approximate): List of terrorist attacks in France Petersen 2013, p. 729...
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Otto Weidinger (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Waffen-SS) in April 1934. His first assignment was as a camp guard at the Dachau concentration camp. With the SS Division Das Reich, he participated in the...
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