Personal file of SS-Unterscharscharfuehrer Walter Burmeister
Service unit: SS II/2/74
SS personal number: 135871
NSDAP personal number: 4725940
Date of birth: 02/05/1906.
File Number : 537
Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation
Legal proceedings by the public prosecutor's office in Bonn, in the years 1961-1962, against SS-Oberfuehrer Dr. Herbert Georg Mehlhorn accused of aid to mass killings in the extermination camp Kulmhof (Chelmno) in 1941-1944
Mehlhorn was also mentioned engaging in the financial management of the Ghetto Litzmannstadt.
Main witness is Heinrich Wilhelm May, who was connected with Mehlhorn for reforestation of the extermination camp area. Other witnesses are Harry Siegmund, Adolf Sommermeyer, Leopold von Loesch and Rudolf Arendt.
On the basis of insufficient evidences the trial against Mehlhorn was discontinued...
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Testimony