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Dachau was established on 10 March 1933 in Dachau, roughly 12 miles North of Munich, and was liberated on 29 April 1945. The Dachau trials were held at Dachau Concentration Camp due to the camp having the facilities to hold the trials and also because the regime working there was some of the main subjects to be held under prosecution. The trials started in November 1945 and adjourned in December 1947 being held, not by the Germans, but by the American Military Tribunal, without a jury, but by a panel of 7 men, one of which bring versed in military law. The prosecution was different than most trials, as the proof of innocence was on the prosecution, not the defense. The charges to be carried out by the United States Military was only against camp guards, S.S. Units, medical personnel, and other German civilians who had part in the war crimes against Allied Nationals. The Dachau Trials consisted of 465 trials from not only the Dachau concentration camp, but also Flossenbürg concentration camp, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex, Nordhausen concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, and Mühldorf concentration camp complex and consisted of 4 main categories of charges: main camp offense, subsidiary camp offenses, atrocities against downed down fliers, which were typically German civilians, and then a catchall category mainly consisting of the dealings about the Malmedy Massacre. On December 13, 1947 when the trials adjourned, roughly 1200 defendants had been tried with roughly 73% conviction rate. The most notable case starting on 15 November 1945 was the first case of the Dachau Concentration Camp Trials was the trial of the commandant of the Dachau Concentration Camp Martin Gottfried Weiss and others under his command. In all 40 men were tried, 36 were sentenced to death, 28 of the deaths were carried out, and 1, Peter Betz, was sentenced to life with hard labor, which was commuted from the death penalty. The 40 men that were tried represented the departments that were at Dachau, some of which may not have had personal ties with the crimes against the Allied nationals.