Fritz Klein
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Fritz Klein was a Romanian-German Nazi doctor and war criminal, hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Klein at his trial in 1945
Klein surrounded by bodies. The British Army liberating Bergen-Belsen forced German camp personnel to bury the corpses of prisoners.
Belsen trials
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The Belsen trials were a series of several trials, starting on 17 September 1945, that the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany after the end o
Fritz Klein
…Number 5 photographed Klein standing in a mass grave, in a well-known 1945 photo (seen on the left). Klein and 44 other camp staff were tried in the Belsen Trial by a British military court at Lüneburg. The trial lasted several weeks, from September to November 1945. During the trial Anita Lasker testified that…
Place of the Belsen trial: old MTV gymnasium, Lindenstraße 30, Lüneburg
Josef Kramer, photographed in leg irons at Belsen before being removed to the POW cage at Celle, 17 April 1945.
Franz Hössler at Bergen-Belsen
Interior shot of the court room ten days before the start of the trial