Order No. 3.
Whereas Martin Gottfried Weiss, Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert, et al., were
convicted of the offenses of Violations of Laws and usages of war in
that they acted in pursuance of a common design, did encourage, aid,
abet, and participate in the subjection of Allied nationals and
prisoners of war to cruelties and mistreatments at Dachau concentration
camp and its subcamps by the General Military Court appointed pursuant
to paragraph 3, SO 304, Hq., 2 November 1945, at Dachau, Germany and
each accused was sentenced to death by hanging except four: Peter Betz
who was sentenced to life imprisonment, Hugo Alfred Erwin Lausterer who
was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 10 years, Albin Gretsch
who was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 10 years, and Johann
Schoepp who was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 10 years by
judgment dated the 14th day of December 1945, and
Whereas the case has now come before me by way of review and after due
consideration and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me, I hereby
order:
That the findings and the sentence in the cases of Weiss,
Ruppert, Jarolin, Trenkle, Niedermeyer, Seuss, Eichberger,
Wagner, Kick, Hintermayer, Witteler, Eichelsdorfer, Foerschner,
Schilling, Knoll, Boettger, Betz, Endres, Kiern, Rewitz, Welter,
Suttrop, Tempel, Lausterer, Becher, Kramer, Filleboeck,
Schoettl, Gretsch, Kirsch, Langleist, Lippmann, Degelow, Moll,
Schulz, and Wetzel be upheld.
That the sentence imposed in the case of Eisele be reduced to
confinement at hard labor for life.
That the sentence imposed in the case of Puhr be reduced to
confinement at hard labor for 20 years.
That the sentence imposed in the case of Mahl be reduced to
confinement at hard labor for 10 years.
That the sentence imposed in the case of Schoepp be reduced to
confinement at hard labor for 5 years,
and for so doing this shall be sufficient warrant.
Dated this 24th day of January 1946.
[Signed] L. K. TRUSCOTT, JR.,
Lieutenant General, U.S.A.
Commanding.
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF ROSE DOCUMENT 11
ROSE DEFENSE EXHIBIT 27
EXTRACTS FROM REPORT OF PROFESSOR DR. E. GILDEMEISTER CONCERNING THE
ACTIVITIES OF THE ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE—REICH INSTITUTE FOR THE FIGHT
AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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