Publication log

20 new profiles — 3 October 2026

On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.

Karl Fiehler

mayor of Munich

Scope of the new profile

As mayor of Munich, Karl Fiehler helped shape the city’s persecution of Jews; in a circular dated 1933-03-24, he ordered that municipal contracts not be awarded to firms owned or managed by Jews or foreigners. In 1949-01, the Munich denazification chamber classified him in Category II and imposed 2 years in a labour camp, credited against internment, and a 12-year occupational ban; this was not a criminal conviction for Holocaust crimes.

Related crimes and places

Persecution of Jews
Administrative repression
Bureaucracy of crime
Munich, Germany

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Karl Frenzel

head of the railway commando at Sobibor

Scope of the new profile

From the summer of 1942, Karl Frenzel led the railway commando at Sobibor and personally beat deportees with a whip as they were driven from the railcars; the court also found that he ordered at least 70 and probably more than 100 floggings. Convicted in 1966, he received a confirmed life sentence in the 1985 retrial for co-perpetrating the murder of at least 150000 people; a separate life sentence for the murder of 1 person also remained in force, and the aggregate sentence became final in 1987.

Related crimes and places

Operation Reinhard
Holocaust
Camp terror
Individual murders
Sobibor, occupied Poland

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Karl Genzken

head of the Waffen-SS Medical Office

Scope of the new profile

As head of the Waffen-SS Medical Office, Karl Genzken supervised personnel conducting typhus experiments, and the tribunal found that he was responsible for and aided experiments on prisoners without their consent; the experiments caused deaths. On 1947-08-20, he was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS and sentenced to life imprisonment; the sentence was reduced to 20 years, and he was released on parole on 1954-04-17.

Related crimes and places

Medical experiments
Waffen-SS
Nazi medicine
Germany

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Karl Gutenberger

Higher SS and Police Leader West

Scope of the new profile

As Higher SS and Police Leader West, Karl Gutenberger ordered the police in 1945 to act ruthlessly and authorised shootings without judicial proceedings; in one documented case he stated that 2 civilians with a white flag had been sentenced to death, after which they were shot. On 1948-10-20, a British military court sentenced him to 12 years’ imprisonment, and on 1953-03-10 the Aachen court sentenced him to 2 years and 6 months for aiding the killing of Franz Oppenhoff; he was pardoned and released on 1953-05-09.

Related crimes and places

SS and police
Extrajudicial executions
Police terror
End-of-war crimes
Rhineland and Westphalia, Germany

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Karl Hass

Sipo and SD officer in Rome

Scope of the new profile

As a Sipo and SD officer in Rome, Karl Hass took part in preparing the Ardeatine Caves massacre and personally shot at least 2 people; the court found that he also contributed to the murder of the remaining victims. On 1998-03-07, the appellate court sentenced him to life imprisonment, the judgment was upheld on 1998-11-16, and he served the sentence under house arrest until his death on 2004-04-21.

Related crimes and places

Security Police and SD
Executions
War crimes
Crimes against humanity
Rome, Italy

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Karl-Friedrich Höcker

adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz

Scope of the new profile

As adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, Karl-Friedrich Höcker passed notifications of at least 3 transports of Hungarian Jews to the relevant camp offices; the court found that this aided the murder of at least 3000 deportees. In 1965, he was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment and paroled in 1970-04, while on 1989-05-03 the Bielefeld court sentenced him to 4 years for complicity in mass murder in the Majdanek gas chambers; he was released in 1992.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Majdanek
Concentration camps
Gas chambers
Auschwitz and Majdanek, occupied Poland

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Claus Schilling

doctor directing malaria experiments

Scope of the new profile

Claus Schilling directed forced malaria experiments on about 1200 Dachau prisoners; the trial record confirms the absence of voluntary consent and deaths connected with the experiments. On 1945-12-13, a US military court in the main Dachau trial sentenced him to death, and the sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 1946-05-28.

Related crimes and places

Medical experiments
Nazi medicine
Concentration camps
Dachau, Germany

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Karl Rahm

last commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto

Scope of the new profile

As the last commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto, he ran its administration, took part in the propaganda deception surrounding the Red Cross visit, and oversaw deportations to Auschwitz. A court in Litoměřice sentenced him to death, and he was executed on 1947-04-30.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Holocaust
Deportations
Selections
Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

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Karl Wolff

Himmler’s personal chief of staff

Scope of the new profile

As Himmler’s personal chief of staff and the SS liaison at Hitler’s headquarters, he helped secure the transports of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka. In 1964 he was sentenced to 15 years for aiding the murder of at least 300000 people; the judgment was upheld in 1965, and he was released on health grounds in 1969.

Related crimes and places

Central administration
SS
Holocaust
Deportation of Jews
German Reich and occupied Europe

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Karl-Adolf Hollidt

Wehrmacht commander

Scope of the new profile

As a Wehrmacht commander, he knowingly allowed prisoners of war and civilians to be used unlawfully for work supporting combat operations. In the High Command Case he was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment.

Related crimes and places

Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht crimes
Forced labour
Prisoners of war
Eastern Front

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Klaus Dylewski

officer of the Auschwitz Political Department

Scope of the new profile

As an Auschwitz Political Department officer, he guarded transports at the ramp and took part in bunker clearances and the executions that followed, but the court did not find that he personally selected victims. On 1965-08-19 he was sentenced to 5 years for aiding murder in 32 cases involving at least 1530 victims; he was released in 1968.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Executions
Holocaust
Camp terror
Auschwitz, occupied Poland

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Kurt Eccarius

head of the Zellenbau at Sachsenhausen

Scope of the new profile

As the long-serving head of the Zellenbau prison at Sachsenhausen, he helped run its system of violence and aided the murder of 14-year-old Heinrich Petz. In 1947 he was sentenced to life at forced labour, and on 1969-12-22 a West German court imposed a combined sentence of 8.5 years, deemed served after credit for his earlier sentence and pre-trial detention.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Camp terror
Individual murders
Executions
Sachsenhausen, Germany

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Kurt Meyer

Waffen-SS commander

Scope of the new profile

As a Waffen-SS commander, he incited his troops to deny quarter and bore command responsibility for Canadian prisoner-of-war shootings at his headquarters, but the court did not find that he had ordered the executions. In 1945 he was sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released on 1954-09-07.

Related crimes and places

Waffen-SS
Prisoners of war
War crimes
Executions
Normandy, France

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Ludwig Plagge

Blockführer and camp-section head

Scope of the new profile

As a Blockführer at Auschwitz, Ludwig Plagge beat prisoners and used other forms of violence; he also headed the Romani camp section, while testimony and the indictment linked him to selections and killings. The Supreme National Tribunal sentenced him to death in 1947; the sentence was carried out in Kraków on 1948-01-24.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Camp terror
Auschwitz
Genocide of Roma and Sinti
Auschwitz, occupied Poland

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Luise Danz

SS overseer and Rapportführerin

Scope of the new profile

As an overseer at Majdanek and Auschwitz, Luise Danz beat prisoners; at the end of 1944 she became Rapportführerin in section BIIb of Auschwitz-Birkenau and helped enforce the brutal camp regime. On 1947-12-22 the Supreme National Tribunal sentenced her to life imprisonment; after an amnesty the sentence was changed to 15 years, and she was released on 1957-08-20.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Camp terror
Auschwitz
Majdanek
Majdanek and Auschwitz, occupied Poland

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Martin Gottfried Weiss

concentration-camp commandant

Scope of the new profile

Martin Gottfried Weiss commanded Neuengamme, Dachau and for a period Majdanek; in the Dachau main trial the court found his participation in the criminal common design governing the camp. On 1945-12-13 a US military court sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 1946-05-29.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Camp terror
SS
Majdanek
Dachau and Neuengamme, Germany

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Max Koegel

concentration-camp commandant

Scope of the new profile

As commandant of Ravensbrück, Max Koegel ran the camp during the expansion of its prison block and selections under Aktion 14f13; he later held commandant posts at Majdanek and Flossenbürg. He was captured in 1946 but died by suicide in US custody on 1946-06-26 before trial; no judgment was issued against him.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Camp terror
Aktion 14f13
SS
Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg, Germany

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Max Simon

Waffen-SS division commander

Scope of the new profile

As commander of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, Max Simon led a formation that committed major massacres of Italian civilians, including at Sant’Anna di Stazzema and around Monte Sole. A British military court in Padua sentenced him to death in 1947; in 1948 the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released on 1954-11-30.

Related crimes and places

Waffen-SS
War crimes
Crimes against civilians
Mass executions
Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Oskar Gröning

prisoner-money clerk and armed ramp guard

Scope of the new profile

From 1942-09, Oskar Gröning served in the prisoner-money administration at Auschwitz. During the Hungarian action, on at least 3 days he guarded deportees’ luggage at the ramp to preserve their unsuspecting state and form part of the armed threat; he also sorted, recorded and transferred confiscated money to Berlin. On 2015-07-15 he was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment for aiding murder in 300000 cases. His appeal was dismissed on 2016-09-20, and his complaint against postponement being denied on 2017-12-21; he died in hospital on 2018-03-09 before imprisonment began.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Concentration camps
Holocaust
Property seizure
Auschwitz, occupied Poland

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Oswald Kaduk

Rapportführer at Auschwitz

Scope of the new profile

As Rapportführer at Auschwitz, he personally murdered prisoners and participated as a co-perpetrator in 2 selections in which at least 1002 people were selected for death. On 1947-08-25 a Soviet military tribunal sentenced him to 25 years of forced labour, he was pardoned on 1956-04-26, and on 1965-08-19 a Frankfurt court sentenced him to life imprisonment for 10 murders and co-perpetration of murder in 2 cases involving at least 1002 victims; he was released in 1989.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Concentration camps
Camp terror
Individual murders
Auschwitz, occupied Poland

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