Publication log
On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.
Schutzhaftlagerführer responsible for discipline and camp punishments at Dachau
As Schutzhaftlagerführer at Dachau, he was responsible for prisoner discipline and punishments and, as part of his duties, attended executions and camp punishments. A US military court sentenced him to death in 1945; he was executed in 1946.
Lagerführer of the Auschwitz subcamp Gleiwitz IV
As Lagerführer of the Auschwitz subcamp Gleiwitz IV, he directed selections of prisoners for the gas chambers, abused prisoners and bore responsibility for crimes during the camp evacuation. Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal sentenced him to death in 1947; he was executed in 1948.
Stabsscharführer and administrative head of personnel at Treblinka
As Stabsscharführer and administrative head at Treblinka, he organized guard duty, the reception of transports and operations enabling the mass murder of deportees, and he personally used violence. The Düsseldorf court sentenced him to 7 years in prison in 1965; the judgment was upheld in 1970.
head of Gestapo offices in Kolín and Benešov responsible for repression and executions
As head of the Gestapo offices in Kolín and Benešov, he organized repression against the Czech population, including arrests, interrogations, deportations and executions. An East Berlin court sentenced him to death in 1972 for war crimes and crimes against humanity; he was executed in 1973.
guard and Blockführer at Auschwitz who took part in selections and killings
As a guard and Blockführer at Auschwitz, he took part in selections for the gas chambers, drove victims into the chambers, abused prisoners and committed individual killings. Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal sentenced him to death in 1947; he was executed in 1948.
SS camp doctor at Ravensbrück who performed forced abortions and sterilizations
As an SS doctor at Ravensbrück, he performed forced abortions and sterilizations and participated in the treatment of women subjected to criminal experiments. A British military court sentenced him to death in 1947; he died by suicide in prison before the sentence was carried out.
SS camp doctor at Ravensbrück involved in forced abortions and criminal procedures
As an SS doctor at Ravensbrück, he performed forced abortions, participated in criminal procedures on prisoners and was identified in records concerning lethal injections. A British military court sentenced him to death in 1947; he was executed that year.
chief SS physician at Mauthausen concentration camp
As chief SS physician at Mauthausen, he participated in selections of sick prisoners sent to the gas chamber; postwar testimony linked him to the transfer of sick prisoners for killing. He was sentenced to death in the Mauthausen main trial and executed on 28 May 1947.
member of the execution unit Kommando 99 at Buchenwald
As an SS member of Kommando 99 at Buchenwald, he took part in executions of prisoners and prisoners of war; at trial he testified that he had personally fired through the execution-room wall slit about 15 times. In 1947 he was sentenced to life imprisonment; he died in 1964.
SS medical orderly at Neuengamme and direct participant in killing prisoners with gas
As an SS medical orderly at Neuengamme, he released Zyklon B into a sealed cell and took part in killing 197 Soviet prisoners of war; in trial testimony he gave the rounded figure of 200. Sentenced to death in the first Neuengamme trial, he was executed on 8 October 1946.
SS Rapportführer at Neuengamme and participant in the Bullenhuser Damm murders
As Rapportführer at Neuengamme, he helped transport 20 Jewish children and 4 carers to the murder site at Bullenhuser Damm and took part in hanging the adults; according to a co-perpetrator, he also participated in killing the first 2 children. He was sentenced to death and executed on 8 October 1946.
Blockführer and detention supervisor at Auschwitz who participated in executions
As detention supervisor and Blockführer at Auschwitz, he took part in individual and collective shootings at Block 11 and public executions at Monowitz; he later led the Eintrachthütte subcamp. The Supreme National Tribunal sentenced him to death, and he was executed on 24 January 1948.
SS-Hauptscharführer and member of Kommando 99 at Buchenwald
As a member of the camp execution unit Kommando 99, he took part in mass shootings of Soviet prisoners of war at Buchenwald; the court also attributed violence against prisoners and participation in anti-partisan operations in Estonia to him. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1961.
SS-Hauptscharführer, prisoner work-detail leader and commandant of the Landsberg subcamp
He commanded the prisoner laundry at Dachau, where he repeatedly beat prisoners under his authority, and later led subcamps including Landsberg. The main Dachau trial sentenced him to death; he was executed on 29 May 1946.
SS-Unterscharführer and gunman at the sham infirmary in Treblinka II
At the sham infirmary in Treblinka II he shot sick, elderly and disabled people, and children separated from transports, in the back of the head. In 1965, with a partial acquittal, he received life imprisonment for aiding mass murder and aiding the murder of at least 25 people; he was released for health reasons in 1978.
SS-Oberscharführer and commandant of the Kaufering I subcamp
He commanded a transport of about 4000 prisoners from the Warsaw concentration camp to Dachau, during which people suffered from lack of water, food, violence and death, and then led Kaufering I, where he beat prisoners, sometimes fatally. The main Dachau trial sentenced him to death; he was executed on 29 May 1946.
Rapportführer and Arbeitseinsatzführer at Mauthausen responsible for punishments, executions and prisoner labour
As a Rapportführer and Arbeitseinsatzführer at Mauthausen, he shared responsibility for roll calls, punishments, executions and assigning prisoners to forced labour; a witness also identified him as a perpetrator of beatings. A US military court sentenced him to death in 1946; he was executed in 1947.
SS medical orderly in the Dachau prisoners’ infirmary
As an SS medical orderly in the Dachau infirmary, he participated in abusing sick prisoners; trial testimony described the fatal cold-water treatment of an operated patient and an injection given to a Polish clergyman who was later found dead. Sentenced to death in the Dachau main trial, he was executed on 28 May 1946.
SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Kaufering II and VII subcamps
As commandant of Kaufering II and VII he beat prisoners; during a selection he beat unconscious a prisoner who tried to remain with his father, and during the camp evacuation he fired into a group searching for food. The main Dachau trial sentenced him to death; he was executed on 29 May 1946.
Rapportführer at Buchenwald, later a satellite-camp commander and regional camp-network chief
As Rapportführer at Buchenwald, he personally used violence against prisoners and took part in the operation that ended with the shooting of 21 Jewish prisoners on 9 November 1939. The original life sentences were reduced in 1970 to six years for aiding murder; in 1981 he also received three years and six months for aiding murder at Majdanek, but did not serve that sentence for health reasons.