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On December 22, 1947, Poland's Supreme National Tribunal, that “ad hoc” court erected to try the major war criminals whose crimes had been perpetrated on Polish soil, issued its verdict on forty former employees of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, commonly known as ‘The First Auschwitz Trial’.
Twenty-one defendants were sentenced to death by hanging, eight to life imprisonment, eight to life imprisonment, eight others to a fifteen-year prison term, one to five years and one to three years. Only one defendant, number 8, was acquitted of all charges and eventually released. His name was Hans Wilhelm Münch, a physician specializing in bacteriology.
During the trial, nineteen Auschwitz survivors testified on his behalf and thus he was acquitted. After the Auschwitz trial and in the years that followed, the legend of “the good man from Auschwitz” and “a human being in SS uniform“ grew and Münch became something of a celebrity.
However, in the last years of his life, Hans Münch himself took it upon himself to destroy and question his own legend. Today, let's get to know the story of this curious character of the Second World War.
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