IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1259
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: 'Breda' war criminals: papers
Date(s): 1955
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The panopticon prison at Breda, North Brabant, housed the only German war criminals ever to be imprisoned in the Netherlands for their war crimes during the Second World War. They were known as the 'Breda Four (and later three)'. They were Willy Paul Franz Lages who was released in 1966 due to serious illness, Joseph Johann Kotälla who died in prison in 1979, Ferdinand Hugo aus der Fünten and Franz Fischer who both were released in 1989.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of 'Breda' war criminals comprise transcript of a radio interview, which deals with misunderstandings concerning the Germans still imprisoned in Breda, 1955; press release of the Dutch embassy (in Germany) regarding the Breda prisoners including lists of the following categories of prisoners: those originally sentenced to death and later commuted to life (with details of their offences); those sentenced to death (with details of their offences); those sentenced to 20 years (with details of their offences); those released in 1952 after serving two thirds of their sentences.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008