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Folders 8–9
War Crimes Modification Board review of the case of Johann Schiller,
May 2, 1951, with applications and orders of parole, and parolee case file,
1954–57
ETO Case 000­50­5­40, U.S. v. Fabian Richter et al., was tried at Dachau,
Germany, during the period September 9–11, 1947, before a General Military
Government Court. The case concerned three defendants accused of par­
ticipating 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 convicted accused, listed below,
were members of the Waffen SS.
Johann Hoos – Waffen SS private, member of training company and
guard at Mauthausen
Fabian Richter – Waffen SS private, guard at Mauthausen and Gros­
Raming
Franz Rottmann (neither served nor tried)
Rottmann was neither served nor tried. As approved by the reviewing
authority, Hoos was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Richter was sentenced
to death.
Box 418
Folder 1
Detail for the court, charge sheet, trial transcript, Sept. 9–11, 1947
Folder 2
Prosecution Exhibits:
1. Accusedidentificationsheetswithphotographs(“mugshots”)andfingerprints
2. Trial data from parent case 000­50­5
3. Two sketches of main road at Mauthausen (stricken from the record and
withdrawn)
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