Albert Hugo Schuster

Albert Hugo Schuster (1912 ~ 1971) was born in Plauen on 18 February 1912. In 1941 he graduated from the Ordnungspolizei school in Buchenwald. He was deployed to Belarus and in the spring of 1943, he was sent to the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. He based himself in St Catherine's monastery, torturing and murdering about eighty people in the buildings and many more in surrounding villages. In January 1944, he carried out a series of massacres in the Opoczno area. Ambushed by a Home Army unit led by Witold Kucharski near the village of Ojrzeń, 12 Germans were killed and Schuster lost an eye. 15 local people were killed in retaliation. In January 1945 he left for Germany on sick leave. Schuster was awarded the War Merit Cross, and the Iron Cross (second class) [1]

Postwar

Schuster settled in Raschau East Germany after the war. In 1951 he was hired by the Stasi as an informant [2] and in 1964 he was awarded the Medal for Faithful Service in the National People's Army.[3] In December 1970 Schuster was arrested as a war criminal, "accused of joining the system of fascist mass extermination and of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. As an officer of the fascist gendarmerie and leader of a motorized train, he organized, ordered and carried out the arrests, ill-treatment and shooting of women, children and men in occupied areas during the Second World War." [4] and was placed on trial in Chemnitz. He was found guilty and executed by shooting.[1]

References
  1. "Kat Łysogórskich wsi- Albert Hugo Schuster". Piewca. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  2. "Verpflichtung von Albert Schuster als "Geheimer Informator" mit dem Decknamen "Wagner" | Mediathek des Stasi-Unterlagen-Archivs". stasi-mediathek.de. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  3. "Befehl zur Auszeichnung des GI "Wagner" für "treue Zusammenarbeit" | Mediathek des Stasi-Unterlagen-Archivs". stasi-mediathek.de. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  4. "Haftbefehl gegen Albert Schuster wegen Kriegsverbrechen während des 2. Weltkriegs | Mediathek des Stasi-Unterlagen-Archivs". stasi-mediathek.de. Retrieved 2020-08-13.


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