Buchenwald Trial

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U.S. military tribunal post–World War II trial war crimes trial

The Buchenwald Trial was a post–World War II U.S. military tribunal held at Dachau in 1947 to prosecute SS personnel and collaborators for war crimes and atrocities committed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Aliases (2)

Dachau trials ×1
Dachau war crimes trials ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	U.S. military tribunal → post–World War II trial → war crimes trial →
aim	to prosecute SS personnel and collaborators for atrocities at Buchenwald →
alsoKnownAs	United States of America v. Josias Prince of Waldeck et al. →
charge	crimes against humanity → participation in a common design to commit atrocities → war crimes →
closedOn	1947-08-14 →
concernedEvent	World War II →
concernedPlace	Buchenwald concentration camp → Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp →
country	United States of America →
defendant	Hermann Pister → Ilse Koch → Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont → Karl-Otto Koch →
defendantGroup	SS personnel of Buchenwald → camp functionaries → civilian collaborators →
heldAt	former Dachau concentration camp site →
historicalPeriod	postwar occupation of Germany →
jurisdiction	United States Army →
language	English →
legalBasis	Allied Control Council Law No. 10 → customary international law on war crimes →
location	Dachau, Bavaria, Germany →
notableFor	prosecution of Ilse Koch, the so-called "Witch of Buchenwald" →
numberOfAcquittals	9 →
numberOfConvictions	22 →
numberOfDeathSentences	9 →
numberOfDefendants	31 →
numberOfLifeSentences	5 →
numberOfPrisonSentences	8 →
openedOn	1947-04-11 →
organizedBy	U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps →
partOf	Dachau trials →
prosecutedFor	inhumane treatment of prisoners → medical experiments on inmates → murder of prisoners → slave labor exploitation → starvation of prisoners → torture of prisoners →
relatedTo	Holocaust → Nazi concentration camp system → Nuremberg Military Tribunals →
result	multiple convictions and sentences including death and imprisonment →
tribunalType	U.S. General Military Government Court →
year	1947 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Buchenwald Trial ("Dachau trials") →	partOf
War Criminals Prison No. 1 ("Dachau war crimes trials") →	relatedToEvent
Buchenwald →	subjectOf