A former member of the Gestapo and the SS was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The convicted man worked at the Gestapo headquarters in Breslau from 1940 to 1945. Beginning in 1942, he was also incorporated into the SS. He was tasked with investigating “opposition activities,” a term that included, for example, simply listening to Allied radio stations. As part of these investigations, he participated in the persecution of at least 1,340 people. Furthermore, in 1941, during the deportation of the Jewish population from Breslau, he carried out confiscations and performed guard and security duties. That same year, he was also a member of a task force tasked with identifying Jewish people in a camp for Soviet prisoners of war in order to subsequently deport them to the Auschwitz extermination camp. He was involved in the selection of at least 400 people, whose transport to the camp he also oversaw - a journey that took place under horrific conditions. The convicted person's appeal was denied. However, the court of second instance modified the conviction because it found that the lower court had underestimated the gravity of the offense in one respect.

Art. 6 lit. b., c. of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Art. 8, 91 VerfDDR, §§ 91 I, 93 I lit. 2, II StGB, § 1 VI EG zum STGB u ZPO der DDR, Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity