Wednesday, October 19, 2016

pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

PAUL SAKROWSKI 

 He was a Kapo and the camp hangman of Sachsenhausen camp and also was the foreman of crematorium in the camp. He was arrested by soviets at end of war when they liberated the camp. He was tried at Sachsenhausen trials also called as Berlin trials by Soviet Military tribunal in a group of 16 defendants immediately after liberation of camp by soviets. . He was sentenced to life term In prison.He explained to the court as to how the gas chambers worked. He was sent along with others to work in coal mines on polar sea Camp where five defendants died in spring of 1948. The remaining were released in 1956 And they went to West Germany wherethey were tried again for war crimes against  Germans and other non soviet  prisoners. They were treated leniently as  they already served the prison term in USSR. Most of themwere not put in prison an released. 




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