The Executions Of The Guards of Dachau Concentration Camp

As the Second World War came to an end, the Allies came across a large number of concentration camps which highlighted the true evils of the Third Reich. Dachau Concentration Camp was liberated by the US Army and what the liberators saw haunted many until their dying days. Around every corner of the camp was death and disease, with many prisoners starving to death having been treated barbarically by the guards and staff who worked at the camp. A number of US soldiers sought to take immediate revenge and shot many of the guards who were captured at Dachau in bloody reprisals. However after the clean up of the camp had taken place, a war crimes trial did occur.

The Dachau Camp Trials initially brought 40 men who worked at the camp in front of a judge, including the Camp's Commandant Martin Weiss. These men were accused of being involved in the mass killing of Prisoners of War and of treating the prisoner awfully. During the trial stories of immense brutality were heard from witnesses and former prisoners who documented the ill-treatment. They told that the guards would regularly execute prisoners for no reason, and how they would also beat prisoners often to death. The true horror of Dachau was told to the judges, and after this 28 of the former staff were sentenced to death. Many more trials emerged after the initial Dachau Trial in which hundreds more were sentenced to death and imprisoned.

The number of condemned was so many that two days were planned for the executions of the guards of Dachau. These took place in Landsberg Prison and resulted in the deaths of all of those condemned. The executions were performed by the US Army and a hangman who performed his job efficiently throughout. For many who were held inside Dachau, these executions were seen as some justice for the horror that went on inside the camp.

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