| has gloss | eng: Gustav Hermann Sorge, (April 24 1911- 1978) nicknamed "der eiserne Gustav" (The Iron Gustav) for his brutality, was an SS Hauptscharführer and a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region of Germany prior to being assigned to Sachenhausen concentration camp. Sorge became a prisoner of war of the U.S.S.R. after the war, was tried as a war criminal in the Sachsenhausen trial held in the former city hall of Berlin-Pankow in 1947 along with Sachsenhausen prison block director Kurt Eccarius and others, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
