Anton Perschl

Anton Perschl (* probably 1906 in Streifing , Lower Austria ; † June 10, 1978 in Nonnenhorn ) was the report leader in the St. Aegyd am Neuwalde satellite camp . After Willi Auerswald , he was the highest-ranking defendant before the Vienna People's Court for crimes committed in the camp. Perschl was sentenced to seven months in prison. The judgment was revised in later proceedings.

Storage situation

Perschl was a professional driver and took in the early war years of the Second World War the German attack in the west part. For his work in the German attack on the Soviet Union , he received the Eastern Medal . At that time he was an SS storm man , and later he became an SS Rottenführer . In September 1944, Perschl joined the guards at the Aegyd satellite camp in Lower Austria. After four weeks he was promoted to report leader. In the Christmas days of 1944, the German Kapo Vinzenz Cellbrodt died in an unexplained manner . Perschl was accused by the camp inmates of being responsible for his death as well as other murders. The report leader was considered brutal towards prisoners. He is said to have hit foreign prisoners in particular with his bare hands or sticks.

process

In 1952, Perschl was charged with the murder of Kapo Vinzenz C. and brutality towards prisoners before the Vienna People's Court. In the course of the proceedings, he testified that by his behavior, which was brutal in the eyes of the fellow inmates, he wanted to spare the person concerned the threat of being transported back to the main camp at Mauthausen . According to Perschl's testimony, it was merely a harmless punishment. A review found that Perschl's behavior merely delayed the relocation. The prisoners were often so badly injured by him that they were transferred to Mauthausen as unfit for work after they were admitted to the hospital. One abnormality arose in the course of the process. The witnesses had been questioned by the police before the start of the negotiations and had given their statements on record. In the course of the annual general meeting, they relativized or changed them significantly. The former camp clerk Alois Kubicek testified before the trial that Perschl was “rough and brutal”. His behavior was as it should be "from a staid SS man." In the main trial, he changed his statement to "If you have been in Mauthausen and Dachau for as long as I have, then you know that the accused was from others another angel was ”from. The change in Ludwig Kosczwara's statement was even clearer. From “The Polish prisoners in particular, as well as the foreign internees, Perschl behaved brutally. He beat her with an ox pizzle for minor things or whatever else he could get his hands on. ”“ If someone misbehaved, it was the camp leader. This once wanted to chase me into the electrically charged fence wire and the defendant warned me about it ”.

In 1952 the court sentenced him to seven months of severe imprisonment. The imprisonment imposed was already settled with the remand.

The process regarding the murder of the kapo ended in an acquittal because the body of Vinzenz C. could not be found. The seven-month sentence resulted from the mistreatment of prisoners that could be proven. In addition, he was neither registered as a NSDAP nor as an SS member. The court justified the short period of imprisonment with the fact that the majority of habitual criminals were imprisoned in the St. Aegyd satellite camp and that Perschl had been forced to commit this great brutality.

On October 10, 1957, the court approved a motion for the redemption of the proceedings and a reduction in the costs of the criminal proceedings. In the grounds of the judgment, the People's Court was accused of gross misjudgment, sometimes deliberate misinterpretation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The ST subcamp. Aegyd am Neuwalde; by Christian Rabl; Published by BoD - Books on Demand, 2008; ISBN 3-9502183-9-4 , ISBN 978-3-9502183-9-8 ; 164 pages; P. 101 f.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X , p. 428.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Justice and Remembrance (PDF; 712 kB)
4. ↑ ^{a b} The ST subcamp. Aegyd am Neuwalde; by Christian Rabl; Published by BoD - Books on Demand, 2008; ISBN 3-9502183-9-4 , 9783950218398; 164 pages; P. 99.