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Re: the July 1944 killing of three downed American flyers within the area of
Gusen Concentration Camp. The defendant was an SS guard at the camp.
Trial exhibits include a hand­drawn diagram of Gusen Concentration Camp.
Case File 8­9: Dawes Case, case summary and 33 exhibits regarding the
arrest and execution of members of the Dawes Team at Mauthausen (2
folders, box 116). (Note: For more information on the Dawes Mission and
a complete description of this file, see 11.4 above.)
III.15 War Crimes Branch: Persons and Places Case Files (Dossier File),
1944–1949, (Entry 144)
This series contains information about specific war crimes or persons who
may have been involved in war crimes. Included are correspondence, diaries,
biographical sketches, witness statements, photographs, investigatory material
such as interrogation reports, and published materials such as newspaper clip­
pings. Entry 144 may be searched by personal name using the Name Index to
ETO War Crimes Trials (Entry 141D) cited above. One significant item located
in this series is File No. 100­1113: Report of Preliminary Interrogation of August
Eigruber, Former Gauleiter of Upper Austria, U.S. Forces in Austria Report A­
112 (box 91, location: 270/2/11/03).Although the interrogation report is undat­
ed, it appears to be one of Eigruber’s first, undertaken by the War Crimes Section
of the OSS in Linz prior to Eigruber’s removal to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation
Center in Gmunden, Austria. It describes the establishment and operation of
Mauthausen, its sub­camps, and the Hartheim extermination center, including
the use of foreign labor, confiscation of property, persecution of racial and polit­
ical minorities, and violations of the Geneva Convention.
III.16 War Crimes Branch: Records of Concentration Camp Trials (Entry 149)
This series includes Mauthausen trial records forwarded to JAG from the
European Theater at a later date and filed separately from the case files.
(Location: 270/2/18/01)
1. Clemency appeal file for Arnold Damaschke (Case 5­31, Vol. 50 (ETO
000­Mauthausen­4), box 4
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