Additional Information

The Dachau Trials are a complex topic in legal history. In addition to various groups of actors, trials and crime complexes, the topic is characterized by special legal terminology.

On this page we try to provide you with supplementary information on the Dachau Trials, introduce acting persons as well as exhibits used in the exhibition and explain important terms.

Biographies

Here you will find biographical information on individual defendants, witnesses to the Dachau Trials, jurists in various trial roles and other individuals relevant to the special exhibition.

 

Defendants

Erika Flocken
Alexander Piorkowski
Rudolf Heinrich Suttrop
Emil Mahl
Martin Gottfried Weiß

Witnesses

Rudolf Wolf
František Bláha
Arthur Haulot
Georg Tauber
Josef Ackermann

Trial participants

David Chávez
Hanscarl von Posern
John M. Lentz
Burton French Ellis
Alfred Edward Laurence

Other biographies from the exhibition

Oskar Gröning
Fritz Bauer
Harold Porter
Friedrich Fromhold Martens
Dixie Foster

Glossary

For a better understanding of the special exhibition we offer here short explanations for technical and foreign words:

Glossary

Objects

Under this heading you will find additional background information on individual objects shown in the special exhibition:

Map of the
Internment Camp Dachau
Uniform of
Alfred E. Laurence
Door leaf from the
"Old tailoring workshop"
G2-Report