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Clemency petitions for Leopold Winter, 1948
ETO Case 000­50­5­13, U.S. v. Johann Haider et al., was tried at Dachau,
Germany, during the period September 3–12, 1947, before a General Military
Government Court. The case concerned 11defendants 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. All of the convicted accused were members
of the Waffen SS or Gestapo at Mauthausen or its sub­camps as guards,
clerks, or detail or block leaders. (This case is reproduced on the two rolls of
NARA Microfilm Publication M1139. See VII.5 below.)
Heinz Bollhorst (not tried)
Johann Haider – Waffen SS master sergeant, clerk in protective custody
section, Mauthausen
Rudolf Hirsch – Gestapo employee, guard at Mauthausen
Matheus Iskra (acquitted)
Josef Kisch – Waffen SS corporal, block leader at Mauthausen and Gros­
Raming, also at Gusen and St. Valentin
Herbert Fullgraf – Waffen SS sergeant, block and detail leader at
Mauthausen
Martin Steinmetz – SS private, guard at the Wiener Graben (the stone
quarry known as the “Vienna Ditch” at Mauthausen)
Daniel Stoeckel – Waffen SS guard, tower guard at the Wiener Graben
Stefan Uscharewitsch – Waffen SS private, guard at the Wiener Graben
Mathias Frindt (not tried)
Johann Scherer (not tried)
Bollhorst, Frindt, and Scherer were not tried. Iskra was acquitted. As
approved by the reviewing authority, Steinmetz, Stoeckel, and Uscharewitsch
were given prison sentences of 7 years; Hirsch, 10 years; and Haider and
Fullgraf, life imprisonment. Kisch was sentenced to death.
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