| First Day - Monday, 17th September, 1945
The Order convening the Court was read.
The President, members, Judge Advocate, shorthand writers and interpreters were duly sworn.
INDICTMENT[10]
The accused, Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Peter Weingartner, George Kraft, Hoessler alias Hessler, alias Essler, Juana Bormann, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Herta Ehlert, Irma Grese, Ilse Lothe, Hilde Lobauer alias Lohbauer, Josef Klippel, Nikolas Jenner alias Jonner, Oscar Schmedidzt alias Schmitz, Paul Steinmetz, Karl Flrazich alias Franzische, Ladislaw Gura, Fritz Mathes, Otto Calesson alias Kulessa, Medislaw Burgraf, Karl Egersdorf, Anchor Pinchen, Walter Otto, Walter Melcher, Franz Stofel, Heinrich Schreirer, Wilhelm Dor, Eric Barsch alias Basch, Erich Zoddel, Ignatz Schlomoivicz, Vladislav Ostrowoski alias Ostrowski, Antoni Aurdzieg, Ilse Forster, Ida Forster, Klara Opitz, Charlotte Klein, Herta Bothe, Frieda Walter, Irene Haschke, Gertrude Fiest, Gertrude Sauer, Hilde Lisiewitz, Johanne Roth, Anna Hempel, Hildegard Hahnel, Helena Koper, Anton Polanski, being in the charge of 5th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, pursuant to Regulation 4 of the "Regulations for the trial of War Criminals," are charged with
COMMITTING A WAR CRIME
IN THAT THEY
1st Charge.
At Bergen-Belsen, Germany, between 1st October, 1942, and 30th April, 1945, when members of the staff of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp responsible for the well-being of the persons interned there, in violation of the law and usages of war, were together concerned as parties to the ill-treatment of certain of such persons, causing the deaths of Keith Meyer [Mayor] (a British national), Anna Kis, Sara Kohn (both Hungarian nationals), Heimech Glinovjechy and Maria Konatkevicz (both Polish nationals) and Marcel Freson de Montigny (a French national), Maurice Van Eijnsbergen (a Dutch national), Maurice Van Mevlenaar (a Belgian national), Jan Markowski and Georgej Ferenz (both Polish nationals), Salvatore Verdura (an Italian national), and Therese Klee (a British national of Honduras), Allied nationals, and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown, and physical suffering to other persons interned there, Allied nationals and particularly to Harold Osmund le Druillenec (a British national), Benec Zuchermann, a female internee named Korperova, a female internee named Hoffmann, Luba Rormann, Isa Frydmann (all Polish nationals) and Alexandra Siwidowa, a Russian national and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown.
2nd Charge.
The accused Josef Kramer, Fritz Klein, Peter Weingartner, George Kraft, Hoessler alias Hessler alias Essler, Juana Bormann, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Herta Ehlert, Irma Grese, Ilse Lothe, Hilde Lobauer alias Lohbauer, Stanislawa Starostka, being in the charge of 5th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, pursuant to Regulation 4 of the "Regulations for the trial of War Criminals,"are charged with
COMMITTING A WAR CRIME
IN THAT THEY
at Auschwitz, Poland, between 1st October, 1942,and 30th April, 1945, when members of the staff of Auschwitz Concentration Camp responsible for the well-being of the persons interned there, in violation of the law and usages of war, were together concerned as parties to ill-treatment of certain of such persons, causing the deaths of Rachella Silberstein (a Polish national), Allied nationals, and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown, and physical suffering to other persons interned there, Allied nationals, and particularly to Ewa Gryka and Hanka Rosenwayg (both Polish nationals) and other Allied nationals whose names are unknown.
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