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20 new profiles — 4 October 2026

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

Otto Förschner

commandant of Mittelbau-Dora and later the Kaufering subcamp complex

Scope of the new profile

As commandant of Mittelbau-Dora he headed a camp apparatus that subjected prisoners to destructive forced labour; he later commanded the Kaufering complex subordinate to Dachau. A US military court in the main Dachau camp trial sentenced him to death by hanging; he was executed at Landsberg on 28 May 1946.

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Concentration camps
Camp terror
Forced labour
Executions
Mittelbau-Dora and Kaufering

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Otto Moll

commandant of Fürstengrube and head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria

Scope of the new profile

As the first commandant of Fürstengrube he personally shot randomly selected prisoners after an escape; at Birkenau he supervised the crematoria and terror against the Sonderkommando. A US military court sentenced him to death in the Dachau camp trial; he was hanged at Landsberg on 28 May 1946.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Crematoria
Gas chambers
Holocaust
Auschwitz-Birkenau and Fürstengrube

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Otto Wagener

military governor of the Italian Dodecanese and commander on Rhodes

Scope of the new profile

As German commander and military governor he was responsible for the occupation apparatus within which Italian prisoners on Rhodes were killed and mistreated. The Territorial Military Tribunal in Rome sentenced him to fifteen years' imprisonment on 16 October 1948; he died a free man in 1971.

Related crimes and places

Prisoners of war
Military occupation
War crimes
Rhodes and the Italian Dodecanese

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Otto Wöhler

chief of staff of the 11th Army and later commander of the 8th Army and Army Group South

Scope of the new profile

The tribunal connected him to unlawful civilian labour orders and to orders assigning Einsatzgruppe D units within the 11th Army's area. In 1948 he was found guilty under counts II and III of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced to eight years, and released in 1951.

Related crimes and places

War crimes
Crimes against humanity
Einsatzgruppen
Forced labour
occupied Soviet territory and south-eastern Europe

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Pery Broad

official of the Auschwitz Political Department

Scope of the new profile

The court found that he aided twenty bunker shootings and two cases connected with ramp duty. In 1965 the Frankfurt court imposed an aggregate four-year hard-labour sentence; with pre-trial detention credited, he was released in 1966.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Executions
Holocaust
Camp terror
Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Robert Heinrich Wagner

Gauleiter of Baden and head of civil administration in occupied Alsace

Scope of the new profile

He directed policies of Germanisation, expulsions and repression; the trial also addressed forced German military service for Alsatians and interference with occupation courts. The Permanent Military Tribunal at Strasbourg sentenced him to death and confiscation of property on 3 May 1946; after appeal, he was executed on 14 August 1946.

Related crimes and places

Deportations
Administrative repression
Military occupation
War crimes
Baden and occupied Alsace

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Rudolf Brandt

Heinrich Himmler's personal administrative officer and a central SS official

Scope of the new profile

The tribunal found that, as a central administrative intermediary, he knowingly aided, ordered and participated in plans for prisoner experiments and the murder of at least eighty-six Jews for a skeleton collection. The Doctors' Trial found him guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS; he was hanged at Landsberg on 2 June 1948.

Related crimes and places

Central administration
SS
Medical experiments
Crimes against humanity
Berlin and the central SS apparatus

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Rudolf Hess

Deputy to Hitler in the Nazi Party and Reich minister without portfolio.

Scope of the new profile

The Tribunal found that as Hitler's deputy he knowingly supported preparations for war, signed the 1935 conscription law, and signed measures connected with annexation and aggression in 1938 and 1939. In 1946 he was convicted of conspiracy and crimes against peace but acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity; he died by suicide in prison on 17 August 1987.

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Aggressive war
Central administration
German Reich

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Ruth Neudeck

SS overseer and head of the Uckermark death-camp section.

Scope of the new profile

She headed the Uckermark section used as a death camp; her own statement records that about 3000 women were selected for the gas chamber during her tenure, and the court addressed her part in violence and selections. A British military court sentenced her to death on 26 April 1948; the sentence was carried out on 29 July 1948.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Camp terror
Selections
Ravensbrück and Uckermark

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Siegfried Seidl

Commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto and an official in the deportation apparatus.

Scope of the new profile

He commanded the Theresienstadt ghetto from November 1941 to July 1943, bearing responsibility for its coercive regime and deportations, and later served at Bergen-Belsen and in the deportation and forced-labour apparatus for Hungarian Jews. The Vienna People's Court sentenced him to death on 3 October 1946; the sentence was carried out on 4 February 1947.

Related crimes and places

Ghettoisation
Deportation of Jews
Forced labour
Concentration camps
Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen and Vienna

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Sigmund Rascher

SS physician who conducted high-altitude and hypothermia experiments on prisoners.

Scope of the new profile

In 1942 he conducted dangerous and lethal low-pressure and hypothermia tests on Dachau prisoners; his own PS-1618 report records the hypothermia experiment series. The SS imprisoned and killed him on 26 April 1945 before he could face a postwar court; no judgment was entered against him.

Related crimes and places

Medical experiments
Nazi medicine
Concentration camps
Dachau concentration camp

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Stefan Baretzki

Block leader and commander of the Canada labour detail at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Scope of the new profile

The court convicted him of murder in 5 cases and of joint aiding of joint murder; trial records also connect him to selections and violence against prisoners. The 1965 judgment became final on 20 February 1969; on 21 June 1988 Baretzki died by suicide while serving the sentence.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Camp terror
Individual murders
Selections
Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Theo Saevecke

Commander of the German Security Police and SD in Milan.

Scope of the new profile

The court found that he ordered and organized the public shooting of 15 San Vittore prisoners at Piazzale Loreto on 10 August 1944. The Turin Military Tribunal sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment on 9 June 1999; he was not extradited to Italy and died on 16 December 2000.

Related crimes and places

Gestapo and SD
Reprisal executions
Crimes against civilians
Police terror
Milan and Lombardy

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Victor Capesius

Head of the SS pharmacy at Auschwitz and a participant in selections on the Birkenau ramp.

Scope of the new profile

The court convicted him as an accessory to joint murder in 4 cases, each involving at least 2000 people; trial evidence concerned his participation in selections on the ramp. Sentenced in 1965 to 9 years in prison, he was released in January 1968 after credit for pretrial custody; the judgment became final in 1969.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Selections
Nazi medicine
Holocaust
Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Waldemar Hoven

SS camp physician at Buchenwald and deputy in the typhus research unit.

Scope of the new profile

The tribunal found that he helped select prisoners for typhus experiments and personally killed prisoners by injection. He was convicted on Counts II, III and IV on 19 August 1947, sentenced to death by hanging, and executed at Landsberg on 2 June 1948.

Related crimes and places

Medical experiments
Nazi medicine
Murder of patients
Concentration camps
Buchenwald, Germany

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Waldemar Klingelhöfer

Commander of Vorkommando Moskau and a staff officer of Einsatzgruppe B.

Scope of the new profile

The tribunal relied in part on his own statement that he personally shot thirty Jews who had left a ghetto without permission. He received a death sentence on 10 April 1948; it was commuted to life on 31 January 1951, and he was paroled on 12 December 1956. He died in Villingen on 18 January 1977.

Related crimes and places

Einsatzgruppen
Mass executions
Holocaust
Security Police and SD
Smolensk and German-occupied Soviet territory

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Walter Adolf Langleist

Commandant of the Kaufering subcamp complex and commander of SS guard personnel.

Scope of the new profile

As Kaufering commandant he helped direct a forced-labour camp complex; the court convicted him of joining a common design encompassing killings, beatings, torture, starvation and abuse. A U.S. military court sentenced him to death by hanging on 13 December 1945; the sentence was carried out at Landsberg on 28 May 1946.

Related crimes and places

Concentration camps
Forced labour
Camp terror
War crimes
Buchenwald, Majdanek, Dachau/Kaufering and Mühldorf

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Walter Quakernack

Auschwitz Political Department officer, subcamp commandant and evacuation-march commander.

Scope of the new profile

Witnesses described him shooting prisoners and ordering the killing of those unable to continue during the evacuation of Hannover-Mühlenberg; the court accepted that responsibility. A British military court sentenced him to death; after clemency was refused, he was hanged at Hameln on 11 October 1946.

Related crimes and places

Auschwitz
Concentration camps
Death marches
Murders
Auschwitz, Laurahütte, Hannover-Mühlenberg and the route to Bergen-Belsen

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Walter Schellenberg

Chief of RSHA Amt VI, the SD foreign intelligence service.

Scope of the new profile

For Operation Zeppelin, the tribunal found that Amt VI decided the fate of Soviet POW recruits deemed unusable, at least two hundred of whom were executed, and that Schellenberg knew the official practice. In 1949 he was convicted on Counts V and VIII and sentenced to six years, credited from 17 June 1945; he was released in December 1950 and died in Turin on 31 March 1952.

Related crimes and places

Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
Security Police and SD
Prisoners of war
Extrajudicial executions
Berlin, German-occupied Soviet territory and the foreign intelligence network

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Walter Sonntag

Garrison physician and chief camp physician at Ravensbrück.

Scope of the new profile

Testimony attributed to him severe beatings of women prisoners, lethal injections and participation in Aktion 14f13 selections that sent prisoners to Bernburg. A British military court sentenced him to death on 4 June 1948; he was hanged at Hameln on 17 September 1948.

Related crimes and places

Nazi medicine
Murder of patients
Selections
Aktion 14f13
Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen and Bernburg

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