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Dachau Trials
Between 1945 and 1949 the US army conducted 489 trials in its zone of occupation. In the »Dachau Trials« a total of 1,672 people were accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the six main trials, camp personnel but also prisoner functionaries from several concentration camps, including Flossenbürg, faced charges. The court handed out 426 death sentences, most of which were later commuted to prison terms.
Between 1945 and 1949 the US army conducted 489 trials in its zone of occupation. In the »Dachau Trials« a total of 1,672 people were accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the six main trials, camp personnel but also prisoner functionaries from several concentration camps, including Flossenbürg, faced charges. The court handed out 426 death sentences, most of which were later commuted to prison terms.
Decentralised euthanasia
After »Operation T4« was officially terminated in summer 1941, doctors continued the programme of murder in the form of »decentralised euthanasia«. By the end of the war in 1945, around 130,000 patients with mental and physical disabilities or supposed »hereditary illnesses« died in institutions throughout the territory of the German Reich as a result of food deprivation, lethal doses of medication or targeted murder.