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Folders 3–7
Petitions for review and clemency on behalf of Rudolf Kansmeyer,
1948–51, and War Crimes Modification Board case review, June 7, 1951
Box 408
Folders 1–2
Clemency petitions on behalf of Erwin Kaupp, 1947–48; War Crimes
Modification Board case review, June 8, 1951; and prison discharge form,
Dec. 1952
Folder 3
Clemency petitions on behalf of Wilhelm Kaupp, 1947–48
Folder 4
Petitions for review and clemency on behalf of Max Pausch, 1947–48
Folder 5
Petitions for review and clemency on behalf of Hans Sielaff, 1947–48
ETO Case 000­50­5­30, U.S. v. Bernhard Fernikorn et al., was tried at
Dachau, Germany, during the period October 28–31, 1947, before a General
Military Government Count. The case concerned eight 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 convicted accused, listed
below, were members of the Waffen SS at Gusen I or II except Guttenberger,
a civilian employee at the Messerschmidt factory at St. Georgen.
Bernhard Fernikorn – Waffen SS sergeant, block leader and guard at Gusen II
Hans Freiberger (neither served nor tried)
Otto Gericke (neither served nor tried)
Hubert Franz Guttenberger – stage technician, guard at the Messerschmidt
factory at St. Georgen
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