United States v. Weiss

Case No. 000-50-2 (1945)

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United States v. Weiss

General Military Court, United States Zone
Case No. 000-50-2 (1945)

  • Written by Sharon Feldman, JD

Facts

Martin Gottfried Weiss (defendant) was the commandant of Dachau concentration camp from 1942 to 1943. The United States charged Weiss and 39 other members of the staff of Dachau and its subsidiary camps (collectively, the staff members) (defendants) with, pursuant to a common design, violating the laws and usages of war between January 1942 and April 1945 by aiding, abetting, and participating in subjecting to cruelties and mistreatment many thousands of civilian nationals and many hundreds of combatants of nations at war with the German Reich. The charged cruelties and mistreatment included killings, beatings, torture, starvation, abuses, and indignities. The court took a vote as to the staff members’ guilt in closed session. The court wished to announce its findings in open court and asked the accused staff members and their counsel to rise.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Lentz, J.)

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