Fort Breendonk in Belgium, was once a
Nazi concentration camp where
the Nazis "provided only
two simple chamber pot for twenty
prisoners."
The Allies' War Crimes Trial held for
the Nazi who ran the camp was held
between
March - May 1946. 23 guards were
charged, 22 convicted, 17 sentenced to
death.
Three of those charged were Jews who
were kapos:
Leo Schmandt
Walter Obler
Sally Lewin
Sally Lewin
All three were sentenced to death, and
executed April 12, 1947.
Walter Obler from Vienna, a calm and simple workman fond of opera. Socialist, revolutionnary and Jew, he fled to Belgium after the Anschluss. From a normal prisoner he turned into a nightmare for his fellow inmates.
The camp commanders cynically promote him (a Jew) to chief of barrack room and labor inspector for all prisoners, Jews or non-Jews. He hits them, beats them and kills some.
Transfered to Auschwitz and Mauthausen in 1943, he survives those camps. In 1945 he becomes member of the antifascist association of the concentration camps prisoners. Recognised by 2 former inmates he is arrested in Vienna and executed in 1947 for the co-murder of 10 at Breendonk.
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