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Jardim, Tomaz
The Mauthausen Trial, 12/2011Book Chapter
Toward the end of 1945, the Judge Advocate’s Office referred the Mauthausen case to trial, following an assessment of masses of evidentiary materials submitted by Major Eugene S. Cohen and other war crimes investigators who had worked at Mauthausen and its subcamps. Although officials in the Judge Advocate’s Office had reviewed thousands of cases concerning atrocities committed in the American zone of occupation, against American personnel or in concentration camps overrun by American forces, the Mauthausen case was one of a much smaller number ultimately chosen for trial at Dachau.¹ Lieutenant Colonel William Denson, assigned by the Judge Advocate to
