12 Facts About Arnold Strippel

Arnold Strippel was a German SS commander during the Nazi era and a convicted criminal.

Arnold Strippel then served in Majdanek near Lublin Poland, Ravensbruck, then at Peenemunde on the Usedom peninsula, in the Karlshagen II forced labor camp, the site of V-2 rocket production and launches.

Arnold Strippel was released after presenting them with the proper papers.

Arnold Strippel was sentenced to 21 life terms in prison plus 10 years.

In 1965 Arnold Strippel, who was still in prison, was investigated for supervising the hangings of 20 Jewish children at the Bullenhuser Damm to conceal the fact that they had been used as human test subjects.

However, the investigation was halted after the prosecutor concluded that he could not prove Arnold Strippel had acted with "base motives", which is required under German law for a murder conviction.

The prosecutor declined to prosecute Arnold Strippel for supervising the subsequent executions of 30 Soviet POWs, after concluding that they had been lawfully killed after a trial.

In 1970, Arnold Strippel's sentence was formally reduced to six years.

Arnold Strippel then received approximately 121,500 DM from the West German government for the 14 additional years that he had "unjustly" spent in prison.

In 1979, Arnold Strippel won a fine against a newspaper accusing him of murdering the Soviet POWs whose executions he'd supervised at Bullenhuser Damm.

Arnold Strippel was implicated in the torture and killing of dozens of people.

Arnold Strippel used the money he'd received from the West German government to purchase a condominium on Talstrasse in Frankfurt Kalbach, which he occupied until he died in 1994.