Dachau trials
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The Dachau trials, also known as the Dachau Military Tribunal, handled the prosecution of almost every war criminal captured in the U.S. military zones in Allied-occupied Germany and in Allied-occupie
Ex-SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Wetzel, who was the officer in charge of distributing food and clothing in the Dachau concentration camp, testifies during the Dachau camp trial.
Jürgen Stroop (center, in field cap) with his men in the burning Warsaw Ghetto, 1943
Otto Skorzeny
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Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German intelligence officer and commando who served as an SS-Obersturmbannführer within the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. Over the course of th
Dachau trials
…of the Waffen-SS were found guilty of summarily executing 84 American prisoners of war during the attack. In another trial, former German commando Otto Skorzeny and nine officers from the Panzer Brigade 150, were found not guilty of breaching the rules of war contrary to the Hague Convention of 1907 for wearing…
Skorzeny in 1943
Skorzeny as commander of the Waffen SS Sonderverband z.b.V. Friedenthal special forces unit, 1943
Skorzeny (centre, binoculars hanging from neck) with the liberated Mussolini – 12 September 1943
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch used to rescue Mussolini