Records of the United States Army War Crimes Trials - United States of America v. Otto Skorzeny et al. July 13, 1945 - December 13, 1948 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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This collection reproduces the records of case 6-100, the Skorzeny war crimes case (United States of America v. Otto Skorzeny et at.), which was tried by a general military government (U.S. Army) court at Dachau from August 18, 1947 through September 9, 1947. Otto Skorzeny was the most successful commando leader of the Third Reich. In this trial 10 members of various branches of the German Armed Forces were prosecuted under a general charge of having violated the laws and usages of war by wearing enemy uniforms during combat conditions, torturing and killing unarmed U.S. prisoners of war, and misappropriating articles belonging to them.


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