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7. Letter from organization “Volkssolidaritaet” in Upper Austria, Oct.
Folder 5
15, 1947
8. Declaration by Ernst Gutmann, Oct. 15, 1947
Statements of sentences, Nov. 10, 1947
Folder 6
Review and Recommendation, Feb. 27, 1948
Folder 7
Orders of review, execution of sentence forms, War Crimes Boards of
Review reports, clemency petitions, and miscellaneous correspondence,
1948
Folder 8
Prison discharge form for Adolf Berg, Aug. 25, 1950; correspondence
regarding missing pay book (Soldbuch), 1951
Folders 9–11
Clemency petitions on behalf of Karl Weidhoper, 1948–53; War Crimes
Modification Board review of the case of Weidhoper, May 31, 1951; peti­
tions and application for parole, 1954; and form for remission of unex­
ecuted portion of sentence, 1957
ETO Case 000­50­5­51, U.S. v. Anton Klein, was tried at Dachau, Germany, dur­
ing the period October 22–24,1947,before a General Military Government Court.
The case concerned one defendant accused of participating in the operations of
Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its sub­camps and thereby, on the princi­
ple of common design, implicated in mass atrocities and other war crimes. The
accused,a German national,was an inmate at Mauthausen and sub­camp Ebensee
where he was a capo on the unloading detail and a block eldest. As approved by
the reviewing authority, Klein was sentenced to death.
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