![]() ![]() According to his attorney, Gustav Wagner comitted suicide in October 1980. Wagner lived openly in Sao Paulo until his arrest in May 1978, but the Brazilian Supreme Court refused to extradite him to Germany. With the help of the Vatican, Wagner and Franz Stangl escaped to Brazil, where Wagner was admitted as a permanent resident on April 12, 1950. Gustav Wagner, Deputy Commandant of Sobibor, who had ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews as chief of the selections and had been sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg Tribunal. On July 22, 1970, the Dusseldorf Court sentenced him to life in prison for complicity in the murder of 900,000 people. The most notorious of the executioners, Franz Stangl was arrested in Brazil and extradited to Germany. Most of the Nazis were freed in a relatively short time their citizenship rights were revoked only for the duration of the prison sentence. Lambert, Erwin, tile layer accused of helping to kill an unknown number of Jews freed. ![]() Zierke, Ernest, saw mill worker accused of helping to kill approximately 30 Jews freed.ġ2. Juhrs, Robert, porter and janitor accused of helping to kill approximately 30 Jews freed.ġ1. Unverhau, Heinrich, male nurse accused of helping to kill approximately 72,000 Jews freed.ġ0. Shutt, Hans, salesman accused of helping to kill approximately 86,000 Jews freed.ĩ. Lachman, Erich, mason accused of helping to kill approximately 150,000 Jews freed.Ĩ. Also found guilty of assisting in the murder of at least 79,000 Jews. Helped in the construction of the gas chambers at the death camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka and was convicted for having directed experimental gassings that killed at least 3,000 Soviet prisoners. Found guilty of having assisted in the murder of at least 15,000 Jews. Accused of helping to kill approximately 43,000 Jews. Found guilty of having assisted in the murder of approximately 68,000 Jews. Accused of helping to kill approximately 57,000 Jews. Found guilty of having assisted in the murder of at least 39,000 Jews. Accused of personally killing one Jew and helping to murder 115,000 Jews. Wolf, Franz, warehouse clerk arrested in 1964. Committed suicide in prison before sentencing.ģ. The former commander of extermination Camp III was accused of personally killing approximately 360 Jews and of helping to murder approximately 86,000 Jews. Bolender, Kurt, hotel porter arrested in 1961. Found guilty of personally killing 6 Jews and of helping to murder approximately 150,000 Jews. Accused of personally killing 42 Jews and helping to murder approximately 250,000 Jews. Frenzel, Karl, carpenter arrested in 1962. Six of the defendants were found guilty, one committed suicide during the trial, three were acquitted and the remainder were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment:ġ. The proceedings took place in Hagen, West Germany, and concluded on December 20, 1966. On September 6, 1965, eleven of the SS men who had served at the Sobibor Extermination Camp were brought to trial, accused of crimes against humanity for the atrocities committed at the camp. After abolition of the death penalty in Germany, his sentence was changed to life in prison. On September 1, l951, he was sentenced to death. One of the worst murderers, Erich Bauer, the chief of the gas chambers, was recognized on the streets of Berlin by survivors. Then Johann Klier was arrested, but as a person who felt compassion for the Jews and secretly tried to help them, he was soon released. Hubert Gomerski, another Nazi from Sobibor, was also arrested. ![]() Nowak was arrested by Soviet authorities. In May 1945, former Sobibor staff member Walter Nowak was recognized in East Germany by a former Sobibor inmate, Meir Ziss. Nazi War Crimes Trials: Table of Contents| Auschwitz Trials| Dachau Trials ![]()
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