Kurt Eccarius
Eccarius was born in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Conviction by Soviet tribunal. Eccarius was arrested by the British and then handed over to the Soviet authorities. He was tried in 1947 by a Soviets tribunal at the Berlin Pankow city hall along with another SS guard and Sachsenhausen record keeper, Gustav Sorge, the last Sachsenhausen commandant, Anton Kaindl, eleven other SS commanders, one civil servant and two prisoner Kapos including Paul Sakowski, who served as the crematorium foreman and camp hangman from 1941 to 1943. Eccarius was found guilty on 31 October 1947 and was sentenced to  life imprisonment at the Vorkuta forced labour camp in the Gulag. He served nine years before being repatriated to West Germany in 1956. Criminal convictions in West Germany. Upon arrival in West Germany, Eccarius initially received amnesty. In 1962, he was indicted for the shooting of prisoners near Wittstock, Germany, while on a death march from Sachsenhausen north-west to Crivitz, Germany. This march began on April 21, 1945, one day prior to liberation of the camp by the Soviet Army. He was found guilty on November 30, 1962, in the Federal District Court in Coburg, West Germany and sentenced  to four years. Additional criminal charges were filed against Eccarius in 1962 for complicity in the killing of over 13,000 Soviet prisoners in the "Genickschussanlage" (neck shooting facility) in 1941. The trial was held in the Federal District Court of Munich, where he was found guilty and sentenced to eight and a half years' imprisonment on December 22, 1969. He was released after serving two years. He was also investigated for the murder of Yakov Dzhugashvili, son of Josef Stalin.