A prosecution witness points to defendant and former kapo Emil Erwin Mahl during the Dachau war crimes trial. Mahl is wearing his prisoner uniform under a suit jacket. Germany, 1945.
Mahl was sent to the Dachau concentration camp as a prisoner in 1940. While there, he became a kapo. Kapos were concentration camp prisoners selected to oversee other prisoners on labor details. Mahl worked in the camp crematorium and participated in executions. For his actions at Dachau, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to 15 years in prison.
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