Sachsenhausen Trial

(October 23-31, 1947)

Anton Kaindl: Life Imprisonment
SS Dr Heinz Baumkotter: Life Imprisonment
August Höhn: Life Imprisonment
Kapo Karl Zander: 15 Years Imprisonment
Gustav Sorge: Life Imprisonment
Horst Hempel: Life Imprisonment
Ludwig Rehn: Life Imprisonment
Kapo Paul Sakowski: Life Imprisonment
Ernst Brennscheidt: 15 Years Imprisonment
Kurt Eccarius: Life Imprisonment
Micheal Korner: Life Imprisonment
Heinrich Fressemann: Life Imprisonment
Wilhelm Schubert: Life Imprisonment
Martin Knittel: Life Imprisonment
Manne Saathoff: Life Imprisonment
Fritz Ficker: Life Imprisonment

On October 23, 1947, fifteen former Sachsenhausen concentration camp personnel and one former prisoner were brought to trial before a Soviet Military Tribunal in Berlin. Among the defendants were Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The findings were announced on November 1, 1947 after only a brief trial. All sixteen were found guilty. Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in prison with forced labor.