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Folder 4
Clemency petitions on behalf of Heinrich Schmitz, 1948
ETO Case 000­50­5­34, U.S. v. Horst Goennemann et al., was tried at
Dachau, Germany on October 27, 1947, before a General Military
Government Court. The case concerned four 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. Only one of the accused, a criminal inmate
at Ebensee, was brought to trial.
Johann Bognar (neither served nor tried)
Franz Borkenstein (neither served nor tried)
Horst Goennemann – merchant and theologist, a criminal inmate at
Ebensee
Gotthardt Tanzmeier (neither served nor tried)
As approved by the reviewing authority, Goennemann was sentenced to five
years in prison.
Box 416
Folder 5
Records of this case are included in one folder, arranged as follows:
Trial transcript, Oct. 27, 1947
Prosecution Exhibits
1. Detail for the court
2. Charge sheet
3. Amended charge sheet
4. Assignment of counsel
5. Accused identification sheet for Goennemann, with “mug shots” and
fingerprints
6. Trial data from parent case 000­50­5
7. Statement of Moric Eizikovic, July 25, 1945
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