Auschwitz Trial

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Krak w, when Polish authorities (the Supreme National Tribunal) tried 41 former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947. The best-known defendants were Arthur Liebehenschel, former commandant; Maria Mandel, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. 38 other SS officers - 34 men and four women - who had served as guards or doctors in the camps were also tried. Rudolf H, sentenced in another trial, was executed on April 16, 1947 in front of the crematorium at Auschwitz I. All other executions were carried out in a Krak w prison on January 28, 1948; Maria Mandel and Therese Brandl were the first to be executed.