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The British tried SS General Max Simon for his part in the massacre. He was sentenced to death, later changed to life in prison. Simon was released in 1954 and died in 1961. The Americans arrested SS Major Walter Reder, an Austrian national, in Salzburg, and handed him over to the British. Reder was extradited to Italy in May 1948 to stand ...
SS man Walter Ryba died in the workshop. Additionally, SS men Novak, Max Brü and Ernst Stengl were killed by the prisoners. [ 12 ] By the evening, twelve SS men were killed and Dubois was severely injured; 12 out of 29 SS men who were part of the camp guard on the day of the rebellion were not present that day. [ 13 ]
At any given point in time, the personnel at Sobibor extermination camp included 18-25 German and Austrian SS officers [1] and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.
Operation Kutschera - Franz Kutschera was an SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of Polizei, SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw District. He was killed on February 1, 1944 by the Polish home army. [9] [10] Ernst Weffels was an SS-Sturmmann member of Nazi personnel of Pawiak prison. He was executed on October 1, 1943 for cruelty and executions in ...
The Einsatzgruppen were SS mobile death squads, operating behind the front line in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.From 1941 to 1945, they murdered around 2 million people; 1.3 million Jews, up to 250,000 Romani, and around 500,000 so-called "partisans", people with disabilities, political commissars, Slavs, homosexuals and others.
An inmate used a gun to kill a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison early Sunday before fatally shooting himself, state officials said. The Georgia Department of Corrections in a statement said it's ...
Two corrections officers from Washington State Prison took 31-year-old Jacob Henson to the hospital after he was stabbed by a fellow prisoner during a fight, the GBI said in a news release.
A corrections officer at an Ohio prison was killed Christmas day when an inmate attacked him, authorities said Wednesday.. The assault occurred Wednesday morning at the Ross Correctional ...