Auschwitz Trial in Krakow Was Trial in Name Only

The Second Auschwitz Trial (in Krakow) was lightning-fast: it took less than a month to issue verdicts on forty defendants (less than one day per one defendant). Which was another proof that this trial was the trial in name only – it was a show trial in a Communist kangaroo court not that much different from infamous Moscow trials of Stalin’s Great Purge of 1936-38.

No surprise here – Communist Poland of 1947 was not that much different from Stalin’s Bolshevist Soviet Union of 1937… or 1947. This trial was purely political as its objective had nothing to do with justice.

This show trial was held for one and only one purpose: to deflect attention from “German Holocaust” – ethnic cleansing of Poland of Germans (which was approved by Potsdam Conference – in this respect exactly the same as its counterpart in Wannsee three years prior).

About 15 million Germans were deported from their homes in Eastern Europe (the SS did not even attempt anything that gargantuan) and up to TWO MILLION (half of the Holocaust death toll) were savagely murdered in the process.

Only because they were Germans – so the Poles and their Soviet masters committed genocide no different from the one committed by the Nazis. Oh, no, it WAS different – the Jews were killed in a much more humane way.

First Auschwitz Trial had all the hallmarks of Soviet criminal “justice”: forged documents, false witnesses, torture … however, it is undeniable that the defendants were for the most part guilty as sin – and got what they deserved.

The best-known defendants were SS Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Liebehenschel, former Auschwitz commandant; notorious Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women’s camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer (he was involved in Nazi human experimentation on camp prisoners). 37 other SS officers (33 men and four women) who had served as guards or doctors in Auschwitz-Birkenau were also tried.

No specific mention of genocide of Jews was made during court proceedings; the defendants were charged with serial mass murder of Polish and Soviet citizens.

23 defendants were sentenced to death (two commuted to life in prison); six to life in prison; seven to 15 years in jail; three to 10, 5 and 3 years and one was acquitted. The first (and the most notorious) Auschwitz commandant Rudolf H;ss, sentenced to death in a previous trial, was hanged on April 16, 1947, in front of the crematorium at Auschwitz I. All others condemned to death were hanged on January 24, 1948.


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