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Following the Second World War, a number of war crimes trials took place in which many of the perpetrators of the Holocaust were brought to justice. The most famous trials were the Nuremberg Trials, and many high ranking Nazis were brought in front of the courts, however one of the first trials was the Belsen Trials which put those guilty of war crimes at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp into the media. Josef Kramer, Irma Grese, Johanna Bormann, Elizabeth Volkenrath and a number of others were sentenced to death for their crimes at the camp, and amongst them was Franz Stofel.
Stofel arrived at Belsen a few days before the liberation, however was still executed for crimes he committed there. He had forced over 600 prisoners to embark on a death march from a different camp as the Allies and the Red Army were spotted near the camp he was over-seeing. On the death march, the conditions were horrific with the prisoners having hardly any food, no shoes at times and were forced to walk 30kms a day. If they slowed down or stopped they were shot, and Stofel and his SS guards executed dozens of innocent people because of this.
When they arrived at Belsen after walking a long way, the camp was liberated days later and Stofel being a member of the SS was forced to help dispose of the bodies that had just been left at Belsen. The camp itself was in dire state with disease and death lurking around every corner. However after the clean up, Stofel was placed on trial and was sentenced to death. It was Albert Pierrepoint who acted as the executioner who carried out the sentence of death for Franz Stofel.
So join us today as we look at, 'The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Franz Stofel. The EVIL Monster Of Belsen.'
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