Josef Jarolin

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Josef Jarolin (* 6. March 1904 in Rehpoint; † 28. May 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) than obersturmführer officer in charge in the concentration camp Dachau and camp leader of the Dachau subcamp Allach .

Life

Jarolin had been a professional soldier since 1923 and joined the SS in 1935. After a year in which he was deployed as a guard in Berlin, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . On September 1, 1938, he moved to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was deployed as a report leader from 1940 . In December 1941 he rose to the position of Third Protective Custody Camp Leader under the First Protective Custody Camp Leader SS-Obersturmführer Franz Hofmann . In March 1943 Jarolin became camp manager of the Dachau subcamp Allach at BMW Plant II, in which he led a "brutal arbitrary regiment". Jarolin was married, the marriage remained childless.

After the end of the war, Jarolin was accused in the main Dachau trial from November 15, 1945, together with 39 other members of the camp staff . The US Military Tribunal was charged with "violating the laws and customs of war" against civilians and prisoners of war alike . Within the prosecution, the concept of “ common design ”, the common plan for a crime, played a central role: not only the individual acts of the concentration camp personnel were viewed as criminal, but the concentration camp system itself. In the course of the preliminary investigations, it had proven difficult to assign individual crimes to the respective accused, as the concentration camp prisoners only partially survived, their statements lacked the necessary precision due to the traumatization or they only partially knew the names of the perpetrators.

According to statements by former prisoners, Jarolin had often beaten prisoners to the point of unconsciousness in the administration building of the Dachau concentration camp. He was also present on July 1, 1942, when twelve prisoners were punished by hanging on stakes . Jarolin ordered the prisoners to hang up because their shoes touched the ground. In a handwritten affidavit that was drawn up before the trial began , Jarolin stated that between May and December 1941 he tied prisoners during 150 interrogations and beat them with an ox pizzle . Between July and September he was involved in the execution of around 700 Soviet prisoners of war; he gave the orders to the execution team and shot prisoners himself in 30 to 40 cases. In April 1942, Jarolin said he was involved in the selection of prisoners on whom the concentration camp doctor Sigmund Rascher carried out human experiments in Dachau . After that he was also present at Rascher's attempts, as well as from December 1942 in Dachau and also after his transfer to Allach during the execution of the flogging sentence and the stake hanging.

Jarolin was just like 35 other defendants on the 13 December 1945 Dachau main process by an American military court for war crimes to death by the strand convicted. In the judgment, the beating and kicking of prisoners, including the killing of three prisoners, were taken into account as individual acts of excess at Jarolin. The judgment was confirmed on April 5, 1946 by the Commander-in-Chief of the American Armed Forces in Europe , who had received a corresponding recommendation from a "Review Board" of the army. Jarolin was hanged on May 28, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the CV Review (pdf, 40 MB), p. 90.
  2. ^ Constanze Werner: War economy and forced labor at BMW. On behalf of MTU Aero Engines and the BMW Group. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57792-1 , p. 234.
  3. ↑ On "Common Design": Robert Sigel: In the interest of justice. The Dachau war crimes trials 1945–1948. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-593-34641-9 , p. 42ff.
  4. ↑ Summary of the testimony in the review (pdf, 40 MB), pp. 22, 145.
  5. ↑ Excerpt from the affidavit in English translation: Review (pdf, 40 MB), p. 23f.
  6. ↑ Lessing, Prozess , p. 320.
  7. ↑ Summary of the review on Jarolin: Review (pdf, 40 MB), p. 145. Ibid, p. 164, the recommendation to maintain the death penalty in the case of Jarolin.

literature

  • Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2933-5
  • Zdenek Zofka: Allach - slaves for BMW. On the history of a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp , in: Dachauer Hefte 2 (1986), ISSN  0257-9472 , pp. 68-78.
  • Case No. 000-50-2 (US vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al) Tried 13 Dec. 45 in tight. Language (PDF file; 40.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Jarolin, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German war criminal, protective custody camp leader of the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1904
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1946
Place of death Landsberg am Lech