Nazi Concentration Camp Adjutant Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop about to dance the Hangman's Jig, Germany, 1946
Nazi Concentration Camp Adjutant Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop about to dance the Hangman's Jig, Germany, 1946
Seeing this photo made me think "Man, execution by hanging is still pretty harsh"
"Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop, SS-Obersturmführer, Adjutant of the camp commander, Dachau"
Oh.
The best place ever for Nazis.
The only place I'm ever really happy to see a fascist.
NoOne platform for fascists
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:
The Dachau concentration camp trial opened on November 2, 1945 in Dachau, Germany. Forty individuals who had participated in the operation of the Dachau concentration camp were charged with the murder and mistreatment of foreign nationals imprisoned there. Among those charged were Martin Gottfried Weiss, the camp commandant from 1942-1943; Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, an SS physician who was brought to Dachau to find a method of immunizing people against malaria; and three former prisoners. The trial lasted from November 15 to December 13, 1945, with seventy witnesses called for the prosecution and fifty witnesses called for the defense. All forty defendants were found guilty, with thirty-six being sentenced to death by hanging (including Weiss and Schilling), one sentenced to hard labor for life, and three sentenced to hard labor for ten years. A few of the sentences were reduced after a review board determined the defendants were involved to a lesser degree than originally believed, but most were upheld. Weiss was executed on May 29, 1946 and Schilling on May 28, 1946, both in Landsberg Prison.
Anyone know anything about the 3 former prisoners and what they were charged with?
Here are the charges and testimonies of all tried of everyone tried, if you want to deep dive. I skimmed very briefly and only found 1 of the prisoners on 118-119. Didn’t have time to look for the other 2.
The very brief overview from Wikipedia is “Two of the three prisoner functionaries were accused of mistreating and killing prisoners. The other was accused of participating in executions.”
Too quick and too kind but at least it gets the job done.
Penalties should not be cruel just for the sake of it, no matter the crime
Justice not vengeance.
Generally, I'd agree with you on that first part but wouldn't lose sleep over making some exceptions. One of a handful of reasons I'm not applying for a job where I'd be asked to make those decisions any time in the foreseeable future.
Dude looks like he pissed in his pants like the coward loser he really is.