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Folder 2
War Crimes Modification Board review of the case of Nikolaus Mohr,
May 29, 1951
ETO Case 000­50­5­31, U.S. v. Karl Glas et al., was tried at Dachau, Germany,
during the period July 28–August 12, 1947, before a General Military
Government Court. The case concerned five defendants accused of partici­
pating in the operations of Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its sub­
camps and thereby, on the principle of common design, implicated in mass
atrocities and other war crimes. All of the accused, listed below, were tried
for crimes at Gusen I and II.
Karl Glas – prisoner, room orderly, night watchman, and block eldest at
Gusen
Kurt Kirchner – Waffen SS technical sergeant, leader of work details,
supervisor of armaments factories at Gusen and Mauthausen
Franz Pillixeder – inspector criminal police, criminal secretary in the
political department at Gusen
Anton Slupetzky – business man, owner of the Anton Slupetzky
Delousing Institute in Linz
Helmuth Vetter – doctor, camp physician at Gusen
As approved by the reviewing authority, Slupetzky was sentenced to 5 years
in prison, Pillexender to 30 years, and Glas to life in prison. Kirchner and
Vetter were sentenced to death.
Box 410
Folder 3
Detail for the court, charge sheet, trial transcript, July 28–31, 1947
Folder 4
Trial transcript, Aug. 4–6, 1947
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