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9. Statement of Jakob Kernhauser, Mar. 24, 1947<br />

10. Statement of Wilhelm Kuhnke, Mar. 25, 1947<br />

11. Statement of Wilhelm Kuhnke, Jan. 24, 1947<br />

Folder 6<br />

Review <strong>and</strong> recommendation, Mar. 9, 1947<br />

Folder 7<br />

Order of review; execution of sentence form; <strong>and</strong> War Crimes Board of<br />

Review, Apr. 1948, with clemency petitions<br />

Folder 8<br />

War Crimes Modification Board review of the case of Wilhelm Kauffeld,<br />

Mar. 30, 1951<br />

Folder 9<br />

Prison discharge form, Nov. 1951<br />

(Note: there is no case filed under 000­Mauthausen­11.)<br />

ETO Case 000­Mauthausen­12, U.S. v. Karl Kania, was tried at Dachau,<br />

Germany, during the period March 31–April 1, 1947, before a General<br />

Military Government Court. The defendant, a former member of the Polish<br />

Army, was an inmate <strong>and</strong> room orderly at Concentration Camp Gusen II, a<br />

sub­<strong>camp</strong> at Mauthausen. He was accused of participating in the killing of<br />

other Polish inmates at the <strong>camp</strong>. Kania, sentenced to life in prison, was<br />

extradited to Pol<strong>and</strong> on October 13, 1947, where he was retried by a Polish<br />

court <strong>and</strong> sentenced to imprisonment for 15 years.<br />

Box 281<br />

Folder 1<br />

Charge sheet; detail for the court; trial transcript, Mar. 31–Apr. 1, 1947;<br />

<strong>and</strong> statement of sentence<br />

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