Interview - Eric Phelps & Victor Perrilo - The Jesuits Behind the Holocaust

Oakland Press photo/DOUG BAUMAN Andy Woodiwiss (left) of Waterford Township is the grandson of Maj. Warren Lambert, who served as chief judge at the Dachau military War Crimes Tribunals. Woodiwiss donated a trunk of artifacts from the tribunals to the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills. Stephen Goldman (right), executive director of the museum, looks through the trunk. 

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VIDEO: Relics donated to local Holocaust Memorial Center by CAROL HOPKINS

Waterford resident Andy Woodiwiss was in Lewiston in 1997 clearing out his grandmother's belongings after her death when he came upon a military trunk that belonged to his late grandfather, Major Warren Lambert.

Inside were books and papers, many with "Top Secret" written on them.

Woodiwiss's grandfather had served as chief judge at the historic Dachau military War Crimes Tribunals

If this photo can be proven to be taken at Dachau,
 it would be the only photo known showing
Adolf Hitler at a concentration camp. 

after World War II -- proceedings that ended with many Nazis either being sent to prison or hanged.

Woodiwiss struggled for years over what to do with the historic documents he possessed. At one point, he was offered $1 million by a neo-Nazi organization for the records but turned it down.

On Wednesday, Woodiwiss, a retired GM worker, donated everything to the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills "Many of the images have never been seen before," said Stephen Goldman, the museum's executive director. The museum plans to place items on display and develop a traveling display. "This is an invaluable collection," Goldman said. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named Lambert to head the Dachau trials, which ran from 1945-48 at the site of a Nazi concentration camp in southern Germany. U.S. military judges tried 1,672 people, including concentration camp commanders and guards, and those accused of killing Allied prisoners. Judges convicted 1,416 people and sentenced 297 to death. Warren Lambert lived from 1906 to 1987 and was a Michigan resident for many years. A professional soldier, he earned a Purple Heart and was in the first platoon into the Battle of the Bulge.

Victor Perillo, who runs WG Production Co. in Sylvan Lake, has written a docu-drama and book about Lambert.

Perillo said Lambert lived in Pontiac in the 1920s. When he entered the military, he studied military code and procedure.

"His supervisor looked up to him and chose him to be the judge at Dachau," Perillo said. (Pls Click HERE to Continue reading.. )