Hermann Hackmann

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Hermann Hackmann
Uslar, Germany
Allegiance Germany
RankSS-Hauptsturmführer

Hermann Hackmann (October 11, 1913 – August 20, 1994) was a German

penal battalion.[1][2]

Trials

Hackmann came from

Buchenwald, though the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1948. Details of his activities in Buchenwald that surfaced during the trial portray him as a man who was greatly feared by the prisoners and prone to violence and using creative ways to torture prisoners. Inmates were frequently beaten, kicked and whipped by Hackmann with sticks and whips. He was also known to make prisoners kneel so he could kick them in the scrotum. There was a rule against spitting on the camp road and when Hackmann saw some spit on the ground he forced the nearest inmate to lick it up. One witness testified that he had two block leaders bend a birch tree where he made a Jewish man hold onto it. When the block leaders released the tree, the man was flung into the air into a stone quarry.[3]

In 1950, Hackmann's sentence was further reduced to 25 years.[4] He was paroled in 1955.[5]

During the Third Majdanek trial between 1975 and 1981, he was sentenced to an additional ten years imprisonment for two counts of serving as joint accessory to murder of at least 141 prisoners at KL Lublin / Majdanek concentration camp.[6]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0813333632
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  2. ISBN 978-1-62895-231-5
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  3. ^ United States vs. Prince Josias zu Waldeck et al, Case # 000-50-9, "Review and Recommendations of the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes," November 15, 1947.
  4. ISBN 978-3-89244-695-8
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  5. ^ "Hermann Hackmann". The Pioneer. 1975-11-26. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  6. ^ Landgericht Düsseldorf spricht Urteile im Majdanek-Prozeß, Landtag Intern vom 26. Juni 2001 (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen). (in German)
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