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Erich Mußfeldt | |
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 Erich Mußfeldt at the Auschwitz Trial of 1947 in Kraków | |
| Born | 18 February 1913 Neubrück, Brandenburg, German Empire |
| Died | 24 January 1948 (aged 34) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Occupation | Services in extermination camps as SS-Oberscharführer |
| Years active | 1940–1945 |
| Known for | Heading the crematoria of the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps |
| Motive | Nazism |
| Conviction(s) | U.S. Military War crimes Poland Crimes against humanity |
| Trial | Auschwitz trial |
| Criminal penalty | U.S. Military Life imprisonment Poland Death |
Erich Mußfeldt also spelled Erich Muhsfeldt (18 February 1913 – 24 January 1948) was a German war criminal.
He served as an SS NCO in three extermination camps during World War II in German occupied Poland and Germany: Auschwitz, Majdanek and Flossenbürg.[1] After the war, he was tried for war crimes by the U.S. military, found guilty of committing atrocities in Flossenbürg concentration camp, and sentenced to life in prison.[2] However, Muhsfeldt was then extradited to Poland, where the full extent of his war crimes was revealed due to new evidence. He was retried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków, and found guilty of crimes against humanity. Muhsfeldt was sentenced to death by hanging in December 1947, and executed on 24 January 1948.
- ^ Elissa Mailänder Koslov (2014). "Vous lisez. Work, Violence and Cruelty. An Everyday Historical Perspective on Perpetrators in Nazi Concentration Camps". Interrogation of Erich Mußfeldt, 14.8.1947 in Krakow. Centre international de formation européenne. pp. 29–51. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ Deputy Judge Advocates Office (21 May 1947). United States vs. Friedrich Becker, et al (PDF file, direct download 9,71 MB). Dachau, Germany: War Crimes Group. European Command. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
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