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Military Government Court. The case concerned 12 defendants accused of
participating in the operations of Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its
sub­camps and thereby, on the principle of common design, implicated in
mass atrocities and other war crimes. All of the accused, listed below, were
members of the SS.
Theo­Otto Bernhardt – Waffen SS master sergeant, canteen manager at
Mauthausen
Johann Domis – Waffen SS sergeant, courier for the guards, orderly,
inmate property room at Mauthausen
Paul Hackl (served but not tried)
Emil Hub (A nolle prosequi was entered in favor of the accused.)
Hans Clemens Jung – Waffen SS sergeant, guard, financial administra­
tion office at Mauthausen
Karl Kuehn – Waffen SS sergeant, telephone switchboard and bread store
at Gusen, food store at Mauthausen
Heinrich Karl Luetscher – Waffen SS technical sergeant, guard and clerk,
orderly at Mauthausen
Reinhard Josef Purucker – Waffen SS master sergeant, inmate kitchen at
Mauthausen and Gusen I
Xaver Strauss – Waffen SS captain, administration leader responsible for
transporting, accommodating, and feeding troops and inmates at
Mauthausen
Walter Truckenbrodt (A nollo prosequi was entered in favor of the accused.)
Bernard Fritz Wagner – Waffen SS guard and administrator of billeting
and laundry at Mauthausen
Ewald Wlotzka – Waffen SS sergeant, guard and camp administrator in
charge of food storerooms at Mauthausen
Hub, Hackl, and Truckenbrodt were not brought to trial. As approved by the
reviewing authority, Domis, Kuehn, and Luetscher were sentenced to 3 years
in prison; Jung and Wagner to 5 years; Bernhardt to 10 years; and Strauss to
life. Purucker and Wlotzka were sentenced to death.
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