| The Mauthausen Trial: American military justice in Germany Subjects: War crime trials -- Germany -- Dachau; Trials (Genocide) -- Germany -- Dachau; Mauthausen (Concentration camp); War crime trials -- Germany -- Dachau; World War 1939–1945 -- Atrocities; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Austria; Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted at Dachau in the spring of 1946--a trial that lasted only thirty-six days and yet produced more death sentences than any other in American history. Jardim Tomaz : Tomaz Jardim is Assistant Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto. |