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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE OMT-III-W-32

1946-1948

Josef Hach, a prosecution witness appearing before a Military Tribunal at Nurnberg hearing case against former Nazi judges and court officials. Hach testified that he was convicted on murder charge in 1929 and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, with normal expectancy of parole after fifteen years. Later sent to Amberg penitentiary where he remained until 1943 when he was suddenly sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp and then to one of the work camps attached to Mauthausen. He described the conditions in camp, beating by SS guards, and the bad and insufficient food provided. Testified that over one hundred inmates died of malnutrition in one night. Freed from the Camp when it was liberated by the Americans in 1945. --Photo 24 April 47 --

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE OMT-III-W-32 / Josef Hach, a prosecution witness appearing before a Military Tribunal at Nurnberg hearing case against former Nazi judges and court officials. Hach testified that he was convicted on murder charge in 1929 and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, with normal expectancy of parole after fifteen years. Later sent to Amberg penitentiary where he remained until 1943 when he was suddenly sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp and then to one of the work camps attached to Mauthausen. He described the conditions in camp, beating by SS guards, and the bad and insufficient food provided. Testified that over one hundred inmates died of malnutrition in one night. Freed from the Camp when it was liberated by the Americans in 1945. --Photo 24 April 47 --

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