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http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Judge Advocate General's Office: War Crimes Case Files, Second World War (WO 235) RG‐59.016M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Tel. (202) 479‐9717 Email: [email protected] Descriptive Summary Title: Judge Advocate General's Office: War Crimes Case Files, Second World War (WO 235) Dates: 1945‐1953 RG Number: RG‐59.016M Accession Number: 2001.114 Extent: 56 microfilm reels; 35 mm. 15,792 digital images: TIFF; 1.17 GB; 2 DVD‐ROMs; 4 3/4in. Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Languages: English Administrative Information Access: No restriction on access. Reproduction and Use: Fair use only. Preferred Citation: [file name/number], [reel number], RG‐59.016M, Judge Advocate General's Office: War Crimes Case Files, Second World War (WO 235), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Acquisition Information: From The National Archives, Great Britain, Public Record Office, WO 235. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum International Program Division in July 2001, in August 2002 accretion of 16 microfilm reels and 1 DVD in Oct. 2008, and accretion of 1 DVD in October 2009 containing 727 digital files (15,792 digital images), in July 2011 accretion of 20 microfilm reels (reel 37‐56). 1 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Existence and location of originals: The original records are held by British Public Record Office, National Archives (Great Britain), Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, United Kingdom. Tel. 011 44 20 8876 3444. More information about this repository can be found at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm. Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Scope and Content of Collection Contains case files relating to individuals tried in British military courts for war crimes committed in Europe during World War II. Included are cases about crimes in Bergen‐Belsen, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Hadamar, and Ravensbrück, Loibl Pass work camp, Gross Rosen concentration camp, and Lefitz Children’s hostel. The files contain daily transcripts of court proceedings, court exhibits, and prosecution and defense summations. Also included is documentary evidence collected by the US Chief Counsel including English translations of German documents. System of Arrangement This collection is arranged thematically. Indexing Terms Great Britain. War Office. Judge Advocate General’s Office. Loibl‐Pass (Concentration camp) World War, 1939‐1945 ‐‐ Concentration camps. Prisoners of war ‐‐ Germany. War criminals. War crime trials. War (International law) World War, 1939‐1945 ‐‐ Atrocities. War crimes ‐‐ History ‐‐ 20th century. Crimes against humanity. CONTAINER LIST Reel Description 1 WO 235/12‐16 Bergen Belsen & Auschwitz Camp case Defendant: Otto Kulessa. Place of trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Josef Kramer. Place of trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Fritz Klein. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Peter Weingartner. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Georg Kraft. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Hossler (alias Hessler and Essler) Place of Trial: Lüneburg. 2 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Defendant: Juana Berman. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Elizabeth Volkenrath. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Herta Ehlert. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Irma Grese. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Ilse Lothe. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Hilde Lobauer. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Josef Klippel. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Oscar Schmedidzt. (alias Schmidz) Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Karl Flrazich (alias Franzisch). Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Ladislaw Gura. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Fritz Mathes. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Wladislaw Burgraf. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Karl Egersdorf. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Anchor Pinchen. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Walter Otto. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Franz Stofel. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Heinrich Schreiber (alias Schrerner). Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Wilhelm Dor. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Erich Barsch. (alias Basch) Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Erich Zoddel. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Ignatz Schlomovicz. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Wladislaw Ostrowski. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Antoni Aurdzieg. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Ilse Forster. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Ida Forster. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Klara Opitz. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Charlotte Klien. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Hertha Bothe. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Frieda Walter. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Irene Haschke. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Gertrude Fiest. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Gertrude Sauer. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Hilde Lisiewitz. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Johanne Rothe. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Anna Hempel. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Hildegard Hahnel. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Helena Kopper. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Anton Polanski. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendant: Stanislawa Staroska. Place of Trial: Lüneburg. Defendants: proceedings, Place of Trial: Lüneburg. 2 WO 235/16‐18 Belsen Case Defendants: Defendants as in WO 235/12: Proceedings, Place of Trial: Lüneburg 1945. 3 WO 235/22 Defendants: Petitions, Place of Trial: Lüneburg 1945‐1953. WO 235/148 Belsen Case No. 2 Defendant: Heinz Heidemann. Place of Trial: Celle 1946. 3 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection 4 WO 235/162‐163 Neuengamme concentration camp case Defendant: Max Pauly. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Karl Tatzauer. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Anton Thumann. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Bruno Kitt. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Willi Driemann. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Heinrich Ruge. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Willi Warncke. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Johann Reese. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Adolf Speck. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Andreas Brems. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Walter Kuemmel. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Wilhelm Bahr. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Karl Wiedemann. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Defendant: Alfred Trzebinski. Place of Trial: Hamburg. Proceedings: Days 1‐12, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. 5 WO 235/164‐167 Neuengamme concentration camp case Proceedings: Days 20‐26, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. Proceedings: Days 27‐34, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. Proceedings: Days 35‐39, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. Exhibits 1‐40, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. 6 WO 235/168‐170 & 173 Neuengamme concentration camp case Petitions, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1954. Extracted papers, Place of Trial: Hamburg Mar‐May 1946. Defendant: Karl Schmidt. Place of Trial: Celle 1946‐1951. Defendant: Ferdinand Grosse. Place of Trial: Brunswick 1946. 7 WO 235/189, 223‐226 Neuengamme case No. 3 & No. 2 Defendant: Johann Frahm, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. Defendant: Ewald Jauch, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. Defendant: Wilhelm Brake, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946. Defendant: Edgar Klemmt, Place of Trial: Hamburg Vol. I 1946. Defendant: Ernst Wendefeuer, Place of Trial: Hamburg Vol. I 1946. Defendant: Friedrich Jacobsen, Place of Trial: Hamburg Vol. I 1946. Defendant: Emil Hoffman, Place of Trial: Hamburg Vol. I 1946. Defendant: Longin Bladowski, Place of Trial: Hamburg Vol. I 1946. Defendant: Albert Letz, Place of Trial: Hamburg Vol. I 1946. Defendant: Albert Letz, Place of Trial: Vol. II 1946. Extracted Papers, 1946‐1949. Defendant: Hans Bloecher, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1949. Defendant: Gerhard Poppenhagen, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1949. Defendant: Anton Brunken, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1949. Defendant: Karl Brettschneider, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1949. 8 WO 235/228‐229; 254 Neuengamme case No. 6 4 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Defendant: Max Markwart, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: Gustav Jepsen, Place of Trial: Luneburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: Joachim Freitag, Place of Trial: Luneburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: Otto Muller, Place of Trial: Luneburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: Kurt Kemmerich, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947. 9 WO 235/301 Neuengamme case No. 8 Defendant: Albert Luetkemeyer, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947. Defendant: Wilhelm Keus, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947. WO 235/302‐304 Neuengamme case No. 4 Josef Klinger Place of Trial: Hamburg Defendant: Emanuel Eichler, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947‐1948. Defendant: Wilhelm Schneider, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947‐1948. Proceedings, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947. Petitions, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1947. 10 WO 235/305‐307 Ravensbrueck Case Defendant: Heinrich Peters, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: Johann Schwarzhuber, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: Gustav Bindor, Place of Trial: Hamburg 1946‐1947. Defendant: