Salt Lake Telegram | 1945-11-17 | Page 1 | Belsen Beast, 3 Women to be Hanged

Belsen esen Beast BeasI r I 3 Women To Be Hanged LUENEBURG Germany Nov 17 JP m UP British military Judges Saturday sentenced Comman ex dant Josef Jose Kramer and 10 others o of the Belsen gang including three women to b be hanged for atrocities atrocities ties committed at the Belsen and concentration camps camp One of the 19 29 9 additional defendants defend defend- ants ant convicted ants convicted was sentenced to life imprisonment Th remainder drew terms from one to 15 years Kramer married and the father of three children received without emotion the sentence which grew out of ot his care career r as as overseer and the beast of Belsen Beisen German civilians inured for tor years to nazi ideas of justice expressed expressed ex ex- pressed surprise that the death penalty was Imposed upon only 11 They had expressed belief beliet that all allot of ot the convicted would be exe exe- The British court convicted Kramer the eXec ex-c commandant ex-commandant o a m m man a n d a ant n t known as the beast of at Belsen and 29 of at his aides aides' and guards at atthe atthe atthe the end of the week nine-week trial Fri Fri- day Fourteen others were ac ac- ac- ac quitted Irma Grese blond year old queen of the Belsen gang and Dr Fritz Klein haired gray-haired physician who chose victims for the gas chamber were among those condemned to die Others to be hanged were Peter 32 former member of at the Yugoslav army Franz 34 an S S guard since 1934 Karl 33 33 S S guard I and former coal miner Ansgar Pichen 32 S SS S guard of Danish extraction Franz Startle 33 S S guard and former Berlin dairyman Wilhelm Vilhelm Dorr 21 S SS S guard and a farmers farmer's son Juana Borman 42 42 who gave up mission I society work to join the S S Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliz Eliz- abeth Volkenrath chief of ot S S i women I