Photo from Topography of Terror museum In Berlin, showing Nazis on trial. Main captions read: Investigations were instituted against a total of 106,496 persons for Nazi crimes on what became the territory of the 'old" Federal Republic, but only 6,498 defendants were issued with a final sentence. — NORBERT FREI HISTORIAN, 2004
Photo from Topography of Terror museum In Berlin, showing Nazis being released from prison. Main captions: One of the defendants in the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen (special mobile units) trial of 1947/48, Gustav Adolf Nosske, as a prisoner of the US. Army, undated (1948). Born in 1902, studied Ira, joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and the SS that same year. He was deputy head of the Geutapo in Aschen in 1935, and in Frankfun (Oder) from 1936-1941. As commander of Ensatzkommando (special mobile com mandol 12 of Ensatzgruppe (special mobile unit) O of the Security Police and the SD under Otto Chlendorf in 1941/42. be was responsible for the murder of thousands of Soviet Civians: Jews, "Gypsies" Communists and partisans. After his deploymeet with Ensatagruppe D he worked in various positions as section and department leader at the Reich Secunty Main Office. In 1944 he became Gestapo Chief in He was sectenced to life impriscement in Nuremberg in Apel 1948. Following the comprehensive amnesty insued by the U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, John McClay. losske was given early release in December 1951 alon with a number of other convicted Nazi war criminals. He le practiced law, working as a company lawyer for various am in Dosseldort this sniffing out Nazis. Count on it once we start who knows where it will all end.' - West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 1952 Hellmuth Felmy. The former commander of Einsatzkommando (special mobile commando) 12 of Einsatgruppe (special mobile unit D of the Security Police and the SD. Gustav Adoll Nosske ( is released from prison at Landsberg fortress, December 15, 1951. At right is Hellnuth Felmy, general of the Luftwalle and Commander of Army Group Southern Greece, who had been sentenced to 15 years in 1948 but was also being released
Visited the #TopographyOfTerror museum in Berlin last year, on the site of the old SS HQ.
Most shocking to me: after WW2, of the only ~6000 #Nazis convicted and sentenced (even many with life sentences for the murder of thousands) — MANY received pardons via US pressure in 1948-1951
