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Folder 3
Clemency Petitions for Werner Fritz Kuhn, 1948–50
Folder 4
War Crimes Modification Board review of the case of Alwin Schiller,
1951, with “Christmas Clemency” notification
ETO Case 000­50­5­9, U.S. v. Josef Lukan et al., was tried at Dachau,
Germany, during the period August 26–28, 1947, before a General Military
Government Court. The case concerned two defendants accused of partici­
pating in the operations of Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its sub­
camps and thereby, on the principal of common design, implicated in mass
atrocities and other war crimes. Both of the accused, listed below, were mem­
bers of the SS at the main camp and several sub­camps, with the trial focus­
ing primarily on Ebensee.
Mathias Frindt – Waffen SS private, Czechoslovak­German nationality,
block leader at Ebensee
Josef Lukan – Waffen SS technical sergeant, Yugoslav national, work
detail leader at Ebensee
As approved by the reviewing authority, Lukan was given a prison term of
20 years. Frindt was sentenced to death.
Box 373
Folder 5
Charge sheet, detail for the court, trial transcripts Aug. 26–28, 1947
Folder 6
Prosecution Exhibits:
1–2. Accused identification sheets with photographs (“mug shots”) and
fingerprints
3. Trial data from parent case 000­50­5
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