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„Die Kinder Waren Nicht Zu Retten! Denn Himmler Hatte Ihre Tötung ANGEklagTE IM NEUENGAmme- THE DEFENDANTS IN THE HAUPTPRozESS MAIN NEUENGAMME TRIAL 1946 und 1947 führte ein briti- In 1946 and 1947, several SS R VER R VER sches Militärgericht Prozesse members were tried before a gegen SS-Angehörige wegen British military tribunal for E ihrer Verbrechen im KZ Neuen- crimes they had committed in E gamme. Die Prozesse sind nach the Neuengamme concentration VERANTWORTLICHKEITEN dem Verhandlungsort, dem Curio- camp. The trials became known SPONS SPONS Haus in der Rothenbaumchaussee as the Curio-Haus Trials after in Hamburg, benannt. Die Morde the building they were held in on AN an den Kindern gehörten zu den Rothenbaumchaussee in central RESPONSIBILITIES AN grausamsten Taten, die aufge- Hamburg. The murders of the deckt wurden. Ehemalige Häftlinge children are among the cruellest hatten britischen Ermittlern atrocities that were revealed in vom Verschwinden der Kinder the course of the trial. Former berichtet. Das britische Militär- prisoners had told British inves- T T gericht befand im ersten Curio- tigators about the disappearance Haus-Prozess drei der 14 ange- of the children. Three of the 14 SS WO klagten SS-Männer für schuldig an men in the dock were found guilty WO den Morden am Bullenhuser Damm of involvement in the murders und verurteilte sie zum Tode. committed on Bullenhuser Damm I I and were sentenced to death. Auf der Anklagebank zu sehen B sind Wilhelm Dreimann (5) und In this photograph, Wilhelm B RT Adolf Speck (9). Nicht abgebil- Dreimann (5) and Adolf Speck (9) RT det ist der dritte Verurteilte, can be seen in the dock. The third I Dr. Alfred Trzebinski. Auch der man to be convicted, Dr Alfred I ehemalige Kommandant des Trzebinski, is not in the photo- L KZ Neuengamme, Max Pauly (1), graph. The former commandant L L sagte zu den Morden am Bullen- of the Neuengamme concentra- L ITIE huser Damm aus. Im dritten tion camp, Max Pauly (1), also gave ITIE Curio-Haus-Prozess Ende Juli evidence regarding the murders I I 1946 wurden Ewald Jauch und on Bullenhuser Damm. Ewald CHK Johann Frahm ebenfalls zum Tode Jauch and Johann Frahm were CHK verurteilt. Die fünf Verurteilten sentenced to death in the third wurden alle im Oktober 1946 in Curio-Haus Trial in late July 1946. Hameln erhängt. Nicht vor Gericht The five convicts were all hanged standen Heinrich Wiehagen, der in October 1946 in Hamelin. DIE TÄTER kurz vor Kriegsende umgekom- Two of the perpetrators, Heinrich S men war, und Arnold Strippel, Wiehagen and Arnold Strippel, S den die Ermittlungsbehörden bis were not tried. Wiehagen had died EITE zum Abschluss der Curio-Haus- shortly before the end of the war, EITE Prozesse nicht aufspüren konnten. and the British investigators were unable to trace Strippel before the end of the Curio-Haus Trials. THE PERPETRATORS 1946 KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, 1981-720 DER KOMMANDANT DES KZ THE COMMANDANT OF THE AUsschachTUNGS- uND EXcavaTION AND FOUNDATION N N NEUENGAMME, MAX PAULY, NEUENGAMME CONCENTRATION HEINRICH WIEhagEN (1901–1945) HEINRICH WIEhagEN (1901–1945) DR. ALFRED TRZEBINSKi (1902–1946) DR ALFRED TRZEBINSKi (1902-1946) Ewald JAUCH (1902–1946) Ewald JAUCH (1902–1946) FUNDAMENTIERUNGSARBEITEN WORks DURING THE EXpansION BEI DER VERLEIHUNG von CAMP, MAX PAULY, awaRDING BEIM AUsbaU DES OF THE NEUENGAMME VERDIENSTABZEICHEN MEdals TO SS MEN SS-Hauptscharführer Heinrich Wiehagen SS Hauptscharführer Heinrich Wiehagen Der SS-Standortarzt Dr. Alfred Trzebinski war Dr Alfred Trzebinski was Garrison Physician SS-Oberscharführer Ewald Jauch war an der SS Oberscharführer Ewald Jauch was one of KZ NEUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP In der Nacht vom 20. auf den 21. April 1945 wurden die 20 Kinder, In the early morning of 21 April 1945, the 20 children, their four Max Pauly zeichnet SS-Angehö- In this photograph, Max Pauly is und Johann Frahm unterstützten Wilhelm and Johann Frahm helped Wilhelm Dreimann an der Ermordung der zwanzig Kinder beteiligt. at Neuengamme and was involved in the Ermordung der Kinder beteiligt. Nach seiner the men involved in murdering the children. Im Vordergrund links ist At the front left is reporting rige des KZ Neuengamme aus. awarding medals to members of Dreimann bei der Erhängung der erwachsenen hang the adult prisoners in the boiler room. Trzebinski versuchte, sich im Curio-Haus- murder of the 20 children. During his trial ihre 4 Betreuer und mindestens 24 sowjetische Häftlinge im Keller carers and at least 24 Soviet prisoners were killed in the basement Prozessaussage schickte er die Kinder vom According to his statements during his trial, Rapportführer Ewald Jauch im officer Ewald Jauch talking the Neuengamme guard squads. Häftlinge im Heizungskeller. Später bewachte Wiehagen later guarded the Soviet prisoners Prozess zu entlasten. Er habe vom Komman- at the Curio-Haus, he tried to exonerate Umkleideraum zu Trzebinski, der sie „geimpft“ he sent the children from the changing room Gespräch mit einem SS-Mann to another SS man while Max Pauly (1907–1946) aus er mit Adolf Speck die sowjetischen Häftlinge on the lorry in the schoolyard with Adolf Speck. danten Max Pauly den Befehl zur Tötung der himself by stating that commandant Max habe. Dass Frahm sie erhängt habe, sei ihm to Trzebinski to be “inoculated”. He stated zu sehen, während KZ-Häftlinge prisoners work in the mud. Wesselburen in Dithmarschen Max Pauly (1907–1946) from dieses Gebäudes getötet. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt räumte die SS das of this building. The SS was engaged in evacuating the Neuen- im Lkw auf dem ehemaligen Schulhof. Nach According to Speck, Wiehagen shot dead two Kinder erhalten und sei von Arnold Strippel Pauly had ordered him to kill the children nicht bewusst gewesen. Später habe er that he did not know that Frahm then hanged auf dem schlammigen Unter- war von Beruf Einzelhandelskauf- Wesselburen in the Dithmarschen The caption, written by former Aussage Specks erschoss Wiehagen zwei of these prisoners when they tried to escape. unter Druck gesetzt worden, ihn auszufüh- and Arnold Strippel had pressured him into KZ Neuengamme, da die britischen Truppen näher rückten. Das gamme concentration camp because British troops were coming die sowjetischen Gefangenen beim Entklei- them. Later that night, he said, he guarded grund arbeiten müssen. mann. 1930 trat er in die NSDAP region north of Hamburg trained dieser Häftlinge, als sie flüchten wollten. ren. Er habe den Kindern Morphiumspritzen carrying out the order. Trzebinski claimed he den bewacht. Jauch versuchte sich damit the Soviet prisoners while they were undress- prisoner Heinrich Masset, und 1932 in die SS ein. Ab August as a retail salesman. He joined the Heinrich Wiehagen was born in Ober- gegeben, um ihre Schmerzen zu lindern, und had given the children morphine injections Schwedische und das Dänische Rote Kreuz befreiten nach Verhand- nearer. At the same time, the Swedish and Danish Red Cross were zu entlasten, dass er wegen eines gebro- ing. Jauch tried to exonerate himself by Die Bildunterschrift „Im Vorder- reads, “In the foreground is the 1942 war er Kommandant des NSDAP (the Nazi party) in 1930 Heinrich Wiehagen aus Oberroedinghausen roedinghausen in the Sauerland region Johann Frahm habe die Kinder erhängt. Er to ease their pain before Johann Frahm had chenen Fußes nur eingeschränkt beweglich saying his mobility had been limited due to a grund der berüchtigte Rapport- infamous Rapportführer Jauch KZ Neuengamme. Er erhielt den and the SS in 1932. Pauly was im Sauerland war am 1. Mai 1933 in die in western central Germany. He joined selbst sei währenddessen in das Außenlager hung them. He said that he himself had gone lungen mit der SS in der Aktion „Weiße Busse“ skandinavische Häft- taking Scandinavian prisoners out of Neuengamme to freedom in gewesen sei und sich deshalb nicht an der broken foot, which meant he could not have führer Jauch mit einem seiner with one of his henchmen […].” Befehl einer übergeordneten commandant of the Neuengamme NSDAP eingetreten. Bevor er seinen Dienst the Nazi party on 1 May 1933. Before his Spaldingstraße gegangen, um dort Kranken- to the Spaldingstraße satellite camp while Ermordung beteiligen konnte. Johann Frahm taken part in the murder. Johann Frahm Schergen [...]“ stammt von dem Masset had worked at the sickbay SS-Dienststelle in Berlin zur concentration camp from August im KZ aufnahm, war er Lehrer in Duisburg. time as a concentration camp guard, he akten zu studieren. Dieses war jedoch fast this was going on to study some patient linge. Diese waren zuvor aus dem gesamten Reichsgebiet im KZ the White Buses rescue operation. These Scandinavians had been sagte aus, Jauch habe die Kinder in den claimed Jauch had taken the children to ehemaligen Häftling Heinrich as a clerk and survived the Cap Tötung der Kinder und gab ihn 1942. He received the order from had worked as a teacher in Duisburg. drei Kilometer entfernt und bereits am files. However, the Spaldingstraße camp was Raum gebracht, in dem sie erhängt wurden. the room in which they were later hanged. Masset, der Schreiber im Kran- Arcona disaster. After the war, he an Alfred Trzebinski weiter. Max the SS office in Berlin to kill the Neuengamme zusammengeführt worden. Tausende KZ-Gefangene brought to Neuengamme from all over the German Reich while kenrevier war. Er überlebte die managed to get hold of a collec- Wiehagen gehörte zur Bewachung auf den 17. April 1945 geräumt worden. Die anderen three kilometres from Bullenhuser Damm Ewald JAUCH UND Ewald JAUCH AND Pauly wurde am 3. Mai 1946 zum children and passed it on to Alfred Katastrophe der „Cap Arcona“. tion of SS photographs to which Häftlingsschiffen, die am 3. Mai 1945 verse- Wiehagen was among the guards aboard Angeklagten sagten aus, Trzebinski sei an den and had been evacuated on 17 April 1945. starben dagegen auf „Todesmärschen“ und in „Sterbelagern“. Die the Swedish Red Cross was negotiating with the SS.
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