HEADQUARTERS THIRD UNITED STATES ARMY .
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Military Commission ]
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Orders Number 3 J
(M. C. 0. 3)
4 October 1945.
Before a military commission which convened at Munich, Germany, pursuant to paragraph 4 Special Orders No. 215, this headquarters, 5 August 1945, were arraigned and tried:
Heinrich Deubert, Anna Margarete Solomon, Margot Zeeck, and Peter Schindel.
CHARGE: Violation of the laws and usages of War. Specification: In that Heinrich Deubert, a German National, Anna Margarete Solomon, a German National, Margot Zeeck, a German National, and Peter Schindel, a German National, did, at Gross-Gerau, Kreis Gross-Gerau, Germany, on or about 29 August 1944 wrongfully and unlawfully beat and strike two (2) Allied airmen whose names, serial numbers, ranks, organizations, and nationalities are unknown, in and about the head, face and body with sticks, stones, shoes and other instruments.
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To the Specification To the Charge:
Deubert:
Of the Specification of the Charge:
Of the Charge: Schindel:
Of the Specification of the Charge:
Of the Charge: Solomon:
Of the Specification of the Charge:
PLEAS
(As to each accused), of the Charge:
FINDINGS
Not Guilty Not Guilty
Guilty, except the words "two (2) Allied airmen whose names, serial numbers, ranks, organizations, and nationalities are unknown, in and about the head, face and body with sticks, stones, shoes and other instruments", substituting therefore the words "an Allied airman whose name, serial number, rank, organization and nationality is unknown, in and about the head, face and body with a stick and his hand", of the excepted words, Not Guilty, of the substituted words, Guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty, except the words "two (2) Allied airmen whose names, serial numbers, ranks, organizations, and nationalities are unknown, in and about the head, face and body with sticks, stones, shoes and other instruments", substituting therefore the words "an Allied airman whose name, serial number, rank, organization and nationality are unknown, in and about the head and face with his hand and other instrument", of the excepted words, Not Guilty, of the substituted words, Guilty.
Guilty.
Guilty, except the words "two (2) Allied airmen whose names, serial numbers, ranks, organizations, and nationalities are unknown, in and about the head, face and body with sticks, stones, shoes and other instruments", substituting therefore the words "an Allied airman whose name, serial number, rank, organization and nationality is unknown, in and about the
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body with a stick", of the excepted words, Not .Guilty, of the substituted words, Guilty.
Of the Charge: Zeeck:
Of the Specification
Guilty, except the words "two (2) Allied airmen whose names, serial numbers, ranks, organizations, and nationalities are unknown, in and about the head, face and body with sticks, stones, shoes and other instruments", substituting therefore the words "an Allied airman whose name, serial number, rank, organization and nationality is unknown, in and about the head and body with a shoe", of the excepted words, Not Guilty, of the substituted words, Guilty.
Guilty.
of the Charge :
Of the Charge:
Guilty.
SENTENCES
Deubert:
To be confined at hard labor at such place as the reviewing authority may direct for 15 years.
Schindel:
To be confined at hard labor at such place as the reviewing authority may direct for 1 year.
Solomon:
To be confined at hard labor at such places as the reviewing authority may direct for 2 years.
Zeeck:
To be confined at hard labor at such place as the reviewing authority may direct for one and one-half years.
The sentence was adjudged 15 August 1945.
Deubert:
The sentence is approved and will be duly executed. Zuchthaus und Sicherungsanstalt, Straubing is designated as the place of confinement.
Schindel:
The sentence is approved, but six months of the confinement at hard labor imposed are remitted. As thus modified, the sentence will be duly executed. Strafgefangis Bernau (Oberbayern) is designated as the place of confinement.
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Solomon:
The sentence is approved, but one year of the confinement at hard labor is remitted. As thus modified, the sentence will be duly executed. Frauengefangis Rotherfeld is designated as the place of confinement.
Zeeck:
The sentence is approved, but six months of the confinement at hard labor imposed are remitted. As thus modified, the sentence will be duly executed. Frauengefangis Rotherfeld is designated as the place of confinement.
BY COMMAND OF GENERAL PATTON:
PAUL D. HARKINS Colonel, General Staff Corps Acting Chief of Staff.
SEAL
L. L. MANLY
Colonel, Adjutant General's Department,
Acting Adjutant General.
Record of the trial of Heinrich Daubert, Anna M. Solomon, Margot Zeeck, and Peter Schindel for the beating of two Allied airmen in August 1944
Authors
Paul D. Harkins (colonel, US Army (1945))
Paul D. Harkins
United States general (1904-1984)
- Born: 1904-05-15 (Boston)
- Died: 1984-08-21 (Dallas)
- Country of citizenship: United States of America
- Occupation: military personnel
- Military rank: general
- Military branch: United States Army
- Educated at: United States Army Command and General Staff College (until: 1941-01-01); United States Military Academy (until: 1929-06-13)
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/75566534
Date: 04 October 1945
Literal Title: Military Commission ) Orders Number 3 )
Defendant: Martin Bormann
Total Pages: 3
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2561
HLSL Item No.: 453181
Notes:PS 2561 was apparently not entered in the case against Bormann.
Document Summary
PS-2561: Mimeographed copy of report on findings and sentences of a Military Tribunal against below-names German Nationals, at Munich, Germany
Mimeographed copy of report on findings and sentences of a Military Tribunal against below-named German Nationals, at Munich, Germany