The defendants Paul Rostock, Kurt Blome, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Georg August Weltz, Konrad Schaefer, and Adolf Pokorny were judged not guilty of the charges listed in the indictment. The defendants sentenced to death were hanged at Landsberg prison in Bavaria on June 2, 1948. The sentences of the remaining defendants were reduced during the appeal process: Handloser and Genzken’s sentences were commuted to 20 years; Schroeder, Rose and, Fischer’s to 15 years; B ecker-Freyseng, Beiglboeck, and Oberheuser’s to 10 years; and Poppendick’s to time served.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Military Tribunal I has convened
this morning for the purpose of imposing sentences upon the
defendants who have been on trial before this Tribunal and who have
been adjudged guilty by the Tribunal.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: Military Tribunal I
has convened this morning for the purpose of imposing sentences upon
the defendants who have been on trial before this Tribunal and who
have been adjudged guilty by the Tribunal.
"KARL
BRANDT, Military Tribunal I has found and adjudged you guilty
of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in an organization
declared criminal by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal,
as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against you. For your
said crimes on which you have been and now stand convicted Military
Tribunal I sentences you, Karl Brandt, to death by hanging.
"SIEGFRIED HANDLOSER, Military
Tribunal I has found and judged you guilty of war crimes and crimes
against humanity, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed
against you. For your said crimes on which you have been and now
stand convicted, Military Tribunal I sentences you, Siegfried
Handloser, to imprisonment for the full term and period of your
natural life, to be served at such prison or prisons, or other
appropriate place of confinement, as shall be determined by competent
authority.
"OSKAR SCHROEDER, Military Tribunal I
has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against
you. For your said crimes on which you have been and now stand
convicted Military Tribunal I sentences you, Oskar Schroeder, to
imprisonment for the full term and period of your natural life, to be
served at such prison or prisons, or other appropriate place of
confinement, as shall be determined by competent authority.
"KARL GENZKEN, Military Tribunal I has
found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and membership in an organization declared criminal by the judgment
of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted, Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Karl Genzken, to imprisonment for the full term and
period of your natural life, to be served at such prison or prisons,
or other appropriate place of confinement, as shall be determined by
competent authority.
"KARL GEBHARDT, Military Tribunal I
has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the
judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted, Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Karl Gebhardt, to death by hanging.
"RUDOLF BRANDT, Military Tribunal I
has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the
judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted, Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Rudolf Brandt, to death by hanging.
"JOACHIM MRUGOWSKY, Military Tribunal
I has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the
judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Joachim Mrugowsky, to death by hanging.
"HELMUT POPPENDICK, Military Tribunal
I has found and adjudged you guilty of membership in an organization
declared criminal by the judgment of the International Military
Tribunal, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against
you. For y our said crimes on which you have been and now stand
convicted, Military Tribunal I sentences you, Helmut Poppendick, to
imprisonment for a term of ten years, to be served at such prison or
prisons, or other appropriate place of confinement, as shall be
determined by competent authority.
"WOLFRAM SIEVERS, Military Tribunal I
has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the
judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted, Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Wolfram Sievers, to death by hanging.
"GERHARD ROSE, Military Tribunal I has
found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against
you. For your said crimes on which you have been and now stand
convicted Military Tribunal I sentences you, Gerhard Rose, to
imprisonment for the full term and period of your natural life, to be
served at such prison or prisons, or other appropriate place of
confinement, as shall be determined by competent authority.
"VIKTOR BRACK, Military Tribunal I has
found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and membership in an organization declared criminal by the judgment
of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted, Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Viktor Brack, to death by hanging.
"HERMANN BECKER-FREYSENG, Military
Tribunal I has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes and crimes
against humanity, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed
against you. For your said crimes on which you have been and now
stand convicted, Military Tribunal I sentences you, Hermann Becker-Freyseng,
to imprisonment for a term of twenty years, to be served at such
prison or prisons, or other appropriate place of confinement, as
shall be determined by competent authority.
"WALDEMAR HOVEN, Military Tribunal I
has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the
judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted, Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Waldemar Hoven, to death by hanging.
"WILHELM BEIGLBOECK, Military Tribunal
I has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, as charged under the indictment heretofore filed against
you. For your said crimes on which you have been and now stand
convicted Military Tribunal I sentences you, Wilhelm Beiglboeck, to
imprisonment for a term of fifteen years, to be served at such prison
or prisons, or other appropriate place of confinement, as shall be
determined by competent authority.
"HERTA
OBERHEUSER, Military Tribunal I has found and adjudged you guilty
of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as charged under the indictment
heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on which you have
been and now stand convicted Military Tribunal I sentences you, Herta
Oberheuser, to imprisonment for a term of twenty years, to be served
at such prison or prisons, or other appropriate place of confinement,
as shall be determined by competent authority.
"FRITZ FISCHER, Military Tribunal I
has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and membership in an organization declared criminal by the
judgment of the International Military Tribunal, as charged under the
indictment heretofore filed against you. For your said crimes on
which you have been and now stand convicted Military Tribunal I
sentences you, Fritz Fischer, to imprisonment for the full term and
period of your natural life, to be served at such prison or prisons ,
or other appropriate place of confinement, as shall be determined by
competent authority."