Stutthof Trial was a war crime

War crime

War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicable in armed conflict giving rise to individual criminal responsibility...

 tribunal held at Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

, Poland

Poland

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, from April 25, 1946, to May 31, 1946, where the joint Soviet/Polish Special Criminal Court tried and convicted of crimes against humanity a group of thirteen ex-officials and overseers of the Stutthof concentration camp

Stutthof concentration camp

Stutthof was the first Nazi concentration camp built outside of 1937 German borders.Completed on September 2, 1939, it was located in a secluded, wet, and wooded area west of the small town of Sztutowo . The town is located in the former territory of the Free City of Danzig, 34 km east of...

 and Bromberg-Ost

Bromberg-Ost

Bromberg-Ost or Konzentrationslager Bromberg-Ost , was the female subcamp of the German concentration camp Stutthof between 1944-1945, in the city of Bydgoszcz....

. The accused were arraigned before the court and all found guilty. Eleven were sentenced to death, including the Commandant Johann Pauls, while the remainder were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

List of accused at Stutthof Trial

• Johann Pauls: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Gerda Steinhoff
  Gerda Steinhoff
  Gerda Steinhoff born in Danzig-Langfuhr , was a Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.-SS career:...
  
  : sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Kapo
  Kapo (concentration camp)
  A kapo was a prisoner who worked inside German Nazi concentration camps during World War II in any of certain lower administrative positions. The official Nazi word was Funktionshäftling, or "prisoner functionary", but the Nazis commonly referred to them as kapos.- Etymology :The origin of "kapo"...
  
   Josef Reiter: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Wanda Klaff
  Wanda Klaff
  Wanda Klaff was a Nazi camp overseer.Klaff was born in Danzig to German parents as Wanda Kalacinski. She finished school in 1938 and began working in a jam factory. This lasted until 1942 when she married Willy Gapes and became a housewife.In 1944 Klaff joined the camp staff at the Stutthof's...
  
  : sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Erna Beilhardt: sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
• Kapo Waclaw Kozlowski: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
  Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
  Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a Nazi concentration camp guard.She is believed to have spent her childhood in Hamburg, Germany. In 1944, she became an Aufseherin in the Stutthof SK-III women's camp, where she brutalized prisoners, some to death. She also selected women and children for the gas chambers...
  
  : sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Kapo Fanciszek Szopinski: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Ewa Paradies
  Ewa Paradies
  Ewa Paradies was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.Paradies was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania , Neuendorferstrasse 100. She was a Protestant Christian and not married. In 1935 she left school and worked various jobs in Wuppertal, Erfurt and Lauenburg.In August 1944 she went to Stutthof SK-III camp...
  
  : sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Kapo Kazimierz Kowalski: sentenced to 3 years imprisonment
• Jan Breit: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Kapo Tadeusz Kopczynski: sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946
• Elisabeth Becker
  Elisabeth Becker
  Elisabeth Becker was a concentration camp guard in World War II.-Life:Becker was born in Neuteich, Free City of Danzig to a German family. In 1936, aged 13, she joined the League of German Girls....
  
  : sentenced to death, executed: July 4, 1946