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Note: Prosecution exhibits 5–8, missing from this file, are described in the court
record as follows:
5. Accused identification sheet with photograph (“mug shot”) and fingerprints
6. Trial data from parent case 000­50­5
7. Statement of Roger Duchamp
8. Stipulation, re: P­7 above
Folder 3
Statement of sentence, Oct. 7, 1947
Folder 4
Review and Recommendation, Mar. 1, 1948
Folder 5
Case summaries, War Crimes Boards of Review Nos. 1 and 2 (Apr.–May
1948), related correspondence
ETO Case 000­50­5­46, U.S. v. Hanscarl Von Posern, was tried at Dachau,
Germany, during the period November 4–7, 1947, before a General Military
Government Court. The defendant, a German national, was 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. Von Posern, a German national, was a political
prisoner at Mauthausen and sub­camp St. Valentin. At the latter, he
served as camp clerk in charge of administrative work. As approved by the
reviewing authority, he was sentenced to life in prison.
Folders 6–7
Trial transcripts, Nov. 4–7, 1947
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