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Female guards of the Stutthof concentration camp at a trial in Gdańsk between 25 April and 31 May 1946. First row (from left): Elisabeth Becker, Gerda Steinhoff, Wanda Klaff. Second row: Johann Pauls, Erna Beilhardt, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann

The Stutthof trials were a series of war crime tribunals held in postwar Poland for the prosecution of Stutthof concentration camp staff and officials, responsible for the murder of up to 85,000 prisoners during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II. [1] None of the Stutthof commandants were ever tried in Poland. SS-Sturmbannführer Max Pauly was put on trial by a British military court in Germany but not for the crimes committed at Stutthof; only as the commandant of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg. Nevertheless, Pauly was executed in 1946. [2]

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The first Polish war crimes tribunal was convened at Gdańsk, Poland, from 25 April to 31 May 1946. The next three trials took place at the same court in 8–31 October, 5–10 November, and 19–29 November 1947. The fifth trial was held before the court in Toruń in 1949. The sixth and the last Stutthof trial in Poland took place in 1953, also in Gdańsk. In total, of the approximately 2,000 SS men and women who ran the entire camp complex, 72 SS officers and six female overseers were punished. [2]

First Stutthof trial

During the first trial held at Gdańsk from 25 April to 31 May 1946, the joint Soviet/Polish Special Criminal Court tried and convicted of crimes against humanity a group of thirteen ex-officials and overseers of the Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo and its Bromberg-Ost subcamp for women located in the city of Bydgoszcz. [2] The accused were arraigned before the court and all found guilty. Twelve were sentenced to death, including the commander of the guards Johann Pauls, while the remainder were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The death sentences were carried out on 4 July 1946 at the Biskupia Górka in Gdańsk, by short-drop hanging.

The commandant of the Stutthof and Neuengamme concentration camps SS-Sturmbannführer Max Pauly was sentenced to death in Germany at about the same time. [2] Pauly was tried by the British for war crimes with thirteen others in the Curio Haus in Hamburg which was located in the British occupied sector of Germany. The trial lasted from 18 March to 13 May 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced to death with 11 other defendants. He was executed by long-drop hanging by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin Prison on 8 October 1946. The second commandant SS-Sturmbannführer Paul-Werner Hoppe (August 1942 – January 1945) was apprehended in 1953 in West Germany and later sentenced to nine years imprisonment.

The execution of guards of the Stutthof concentration camp on Biskupia Gorka Hill near Gdansk on 4 July 1946. In the foreground were the female guards sentenced to hang: Barkmann, Paradies, Becker, Klaff, Steinhoff (left to right) Biskupia Gorka executions - 14 - Barkmann, Paradies, Becker, Klaff, Steinhoff (left to right).jpg
The execution of guards of the Stutthof concentration camp on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. In the foreground were the female guards sentenced to hang: Barkmann, Paradies, Becker, Klaff, Steinhoff (left to right)
The execution of Steinhoff, Pauls and three kapos 4 July 1946 Biskupia Gorka executions - 13 - Steinhoff, Pauls, 3 Kapos (left to right).jpg
The execution of Steinhoff, Pauls and three kapos 4 July 1946

Verdicts in the first Stutthof trial

  1. Johann Pauls, SS Oberscharführer : Death, executed 4 July 1946
  2. Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, SS Aufseherin : Death, executed 4 July 1946
  3. Elisabeth Becker, SS Aufseherin: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  4. Wanda Klaff, SS Aufseherin: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  5. Ewa Paradies, SS Aufseherin Death, executed 4 July 1946
  6. Gerda Steinhoff, SS Blockleiterin: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  7. Erna Beilhardt, SS Aufseherin: 5 years imprisonment
  8. Tadeusz Kopczynski, (Kapo) : Death, executed 4 July 1946
  9. Waclaw Kozlowski, Kapo: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  10. Jozef Reiter, Kapo: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  11. Fanciszek Szopinski, Kapo: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  12. Kazimierz Kowalski, Kapo: 3 years imprisonment
  13. Jan Brajt, Kapo: Death, executed 4 July 1946
  14. Aleksy Duzdal, Kapo: Not guilty
  15. Jan Preiss, Kapo: Not guilty
  16. Marian Zielkowski, Kapo: Died of a heart attack in prison 25 August 1945

Second Stutthof trial

The second trial was held from 8 October to 31 October 1947, before a Polish Special Criminal Court. Arraigned 24 ex-officials and guards of the Stutthof concentration camp were judged and found guilty. Ten were sentenced to death. [2]

Verdicts in the second trial

At trial, 1947, Gdansk. Left to right: Hans Rach, Fritz Peters, Albert Paulitz [de], Ewald Foth [de], and Theodor Traugott Meyer [de] Stutthof trial (l-r) - Rach Peters Paulitz Foth Meyer.jpg
At trial, 1947, Gdańsk. Left to right: Hans Rach, Fritz Peters, Albert Paulitz  [ de ], Ewald Foth  [ de ], and Theodor Traugott Meyer  [ de ]

Nine SS men and the Kapo Nikolaysen were executed on 28 October 1948: [3]

  1. Kurt Dietrich, SS Unterscharführer: Death, executed 28 October 1948
  2. Karl Eggert, SS Rottenführer : Death, executed 28 October 1948
  3. Theodor Meyer, SS Hauptsturmführer : Death, executed 28 October 1948
  4. Ewald Foth, SS Oberscharführer : Death, executed 28 October 1948
  5. Albert Paulitz, SS Oberscharführer: Death, executed 28 October 1948
  6. Fritz Peters, SS Unterscharführer: Death, executed 28 October 1948
  7. Hans Rach, SS Oberscharführer: Death, executed 28 October 1948
  8. Paul Wellnitz, SS Rottenführer: Death, executed 28 October 1948
  9. Karl Zurell, SS Rottenführer: Death, executed 28 October 1948
  10. Erich Thun, SS Unterscharführer: Life imprisonment
  11. Wilhelm Vogler, SS Hauptsturmführer: 15 years imprisonment
  12. Eduard Zerlin, SS Unterscharführer : 12 years imprisonment
  13. Oskar Gottchau, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  14. Adolf Grams, SS Rottenführer: 10 years imprisonment
  15. Emil Wenzel, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  16. Werner Wöllnitz, SS Rottenführer: 10 years imprisonment
  17. Johannes Görtz, SS Unterscharführer: 8 years imprisonment
  18. Karl Reger, SS Scharführer : 8 years imprisonment
  19. Martin Stage, SS Scharführer: 8 years imprisonment
  20. Adalbert Wolter, SS Unterscharführer: 8 years imprisonment
  21. Josef Wennhardt, SS Scharführer: 8 years imprisonment
  22. Hugo Ziehm, SS Scharführer: 3 years imprisonment
  23. Walter Englert, SS Scharführer: 3 years imprisonment
  24. Alfred Nikolaysen, Kapo: Death, executed 28 October 1948

Third Stutthof trial

The third trial was held from 5 November to 10 November 1947 before a Polish Special Criminal Court. Arraigned 20 ex-officials and guards were judged; nineteen were found guilty, and one was acquitted. [2] [4]

Verdicts in the third trial

  1. Karl Meinck, SS Obersturmführer: 12 years imprisonment
  2. Gustav Eberle, SS Hauptscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  3. Erich Jassen, SS Hauptscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  4. Adolf Klaffke, SS Oberscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  5. Otto Schneider, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  6. Otto Welke, SS Sturmscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  7. Willy Witt, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  8. Alfred Tissler, SS Rottenführer: 5 years imprisonment
  9. Johann Lichtner, SS Hauptscharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  10. Ernst Thulke, SS Rottenführer: 5 years imprisonment
  11. Heinz Löwen, SS Scharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  12. Erich Stampniok, SS Unterscharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  13. Hans Möhrke, SS Sturmscharführer: 4 years imprisonment
  14. Harry Müller, SS Unterscharführer: 4 years imprisonment
  15. Richard Timm, SS Hauptscharführer: 4 years imprisonment
  16. Nikolaus Dirnberger, SS Scharführer: 4 years imprisonment
  17. Friedrich Tessmer, SS Scharführer: 4 years imprisonment
  18. Johann Sporer, SS Unterscharführer: 4 years imprisonment
  19. Nikolai Klawan, SS Scharführer: 3 years imprisonment
  20. Hans Tolksdorf, SS Oberscharführer: Not guilty

Fourth Stutthof trial

The fourth trial was also held before a Polish Special Criminal Court, from 19 November to 29 November 1947. Arraigned 27 ex-officials and guards were judged; 26 were found guilty, and one was acquitted. [2] [4]

Verdicts in the fourth trial

  1. Willi Buth, SS Hauptscharführer: Death, executed 10 January 1949
  2. Albert Weckmüller, SS Hauptsturmführer: 15 years imprisonment
  3. Rudolf Berg, SS Scharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  4. Fritz Glawe, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  5. Horst Köpke, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  6. Emil Lascheit, SS Sturmscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  7. Kurt Reduhn, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  8. Josef Stahl, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years imprisonment
  9. Waldemar Henke, SS Obersturmführer: 5 years imprisonment
  10. Gustav Kautz, SS Unterscharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  11. Hermann Link, SS Scharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  12. Erich Mertens, SS Oberscharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  13. Martin Pentz, SS Scharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  14. Johann Pfister, SS Rottenführer: 5 years imprisonment
  15. Johannes Wall, SS Sturmscharführer: 5 years imprisonment
  16. Richard Akolt, SS Rottenführer: 3 years imprisonment
  17. Anton Kniffke, SS Scharführer: 3 years imprisonment
  18. Christof Schwarz, SS Hauptsturmführer: 3 years imprisonment
  19. Gustav Brodowski, SS Rottenführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  20. Walter Ringewald, SS Oberscharfuhrer: 7 months' imprisonment
  21. Richard Wohlfeil, SS Hauptscharführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  22. Johann Wrobel, SS Oberscharführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  23. Ernst Knappert, SS Rottenführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  24. Bernard Eckermann, SS Oberscharführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  25. Leopold Baumgartner, SS Oberscharführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  26. Emil Paul, SS Unterscharführer: 7 months' imprisonment
  27. Franz Spillmann, Kapo: Not guilty

Fifth and sixth trials

The last two trials in Poland concerning two Stutthof concentration camp officials took place four years apart. In 1949, SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Jacobi, the commandant of Stutthof subcamps forming Baukommando Weichsel or OT Thorn (Organisation Todt Thorn) for women digging anti-tank ditches, [5] was tried before the criminal court in Toruń and sentenced to three years in prison. [2]

In 1953 the court in Gdańsk tried SS-man Bielawa (SS Rottenführer Paul Bielawa, a prisoner guard from the 3rd company in Stutthof between 194145) [1] and sentenced him to twelve years. [2] SS-Rottenführer Emil Strehlau was sentenced by the court in Torun (Wloclawek) on 23 April 1948 to death for war crimes. He was executed 8 November in Wloclawek. [6] [7]

Later trials

In mid-1950s, a number of Nazi concentration camp commandants were sentenced to jail for supervising the murder of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers between 19421944, including Otto Knott  [ pl ], Otto Haupt  [ pl ] and Bernard Lüdtke  [ pl ].

In 2017, the prosecution of two former Stutthof camp guards from Borken and Wuppertal commenced. [8] The Wuppertal accused denied the allegations and declared that he was not present during the killings, and did not notice anything about it. [9]

In November 2018, Johann Rehbogen from Borken was tried in court for serving at Stutthof camp from June 1942 to September 1944. [10] In December 2018, the trial was suspended, since the convict had to be hospitalized for serious heart and kidney problems. [11] On 25 February 2019, it was announced that the trial is unlikely to be restarted due to the poor health conditions of the defendant. [12]

In October 2019, Bruno Dey from Hamburg was accused of contributing to the killings of 5,230 prisoners at Stutthof camp between 1944 and 1945. However, he was tried in a juvenile court due to being about 17 at that time. [13] In July 2020, he was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder by the Hamburg state court, and was also convicted of one count of accessory to attempted murder. [14]

In 2021, Irmgard Furchner, a German former concentration camp secretary and stenographer at Stutthof who worked for camp commandant Paul-Werner Hoppe, [15] was charged with 11,412 counts of accessory to murder and 18 additional counts of accessory to attempted murder, [16] [17] [18] On 20 December 2022, she was found guilty and sentenced to a suspended jail term of two years. [19] [20] On 20 August 2024, the German Federal Court of Justice would reject Furchner's appeal and uphold her conviction. [21] [22]

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