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Martin Sommer was eventually convicted of 38 murders and sentenced to
life imprisonment.
"In July 1958 Martin Sommer was tried in Bayreuth, charged and
convicted of 38 murders and was sent to life imprisonment."
source: Shoah.dk
http://www.shoah.dk/Pics/new_page_1.htm
A 1990 oral history from a Buchenwald survivor contains additional
information:
"...in 1957 or '58 and I have that at home, Time magazine published a
story under the heading, "The Monster". Story of an SS officer in a
concentration camp, such a brutal guy such a cruel guy, that even his
own colleagues couldn't stand him anymore. He would do things like
take a prisoner, rubbing his back raw with steel brushes and then
pouring acid over it. Then put the body under his bed. That's the kind
of guy he was. So he was finally sent to the Russian front, got
injured there became paraplegic. Went underground then surfaced after
the war to claim a pension and get married. Was arrested by the German
police, was tried and charged with a thousand murders, was convicted
of 38 murders and was sent to life imprisonment. Gerhard Martin
Sommer...that guy. And I heard last year from Buchenwald which is now
a museum, that he died about two years ago but I don't know where he
died. Whether he died in prison or not. That was the guy, they had his
picture in Time magazine, he looked just as bad sitting in a
wheelchair in civilian clothes as he looked in uniform. Just a bad
guy. Pathological."
http://www.remember.org/witness/wit.sur.franck.html
search strategy:
"martin sommer", buchenwald
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