Publication log
On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.
command staff member and SS guard
A British military court held him responsible for shooting prisoners, including weakened people during the death march in April 1945. He was sentenced to death on 15 July 1948 and executed at Hamelin on 17 September 1948.
Minister-President of Brunswick
The city history describes his rule as a brutal system of purges, raids, arrests and torture of political opponents. In 1950 he received a life sentence for crimes against humanity; after it was quashed, he received 15 years in 1952 and was released in 1957.
driver on the camp staff
The Supreme National Tribunal assessed his service as part of the Auschwitz garrison’s activity; the available sources do not attribute a separate killing to him in this profile. On 22 December 1947 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and was released in 1952.
General of Infantry and corps commander
The tribunal found him guilty for transmitting and carrying out the criminal Commissar Order and for unlawfully sending civilians to compulsory labour. In 1948 he was found guilty on counts 3 and 4 and sentenced to 10 years; he was released in 1951.
head of the NSDAP Foreign Organization
As Gauleiter he organized the party apparatus for NSDAP members abroad; the profile does not attribute charges on which he was acquitted. In the Ministries Case he pleaded guilty to knowing membership in the criminal SS, received 5 years and was released in December 1949.
commander of the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp
Memorial sources state that he participated in the murder of 20 Jewish children and adult prisoners at Bullenhuser Damm in April 1945. In 1946 a British military court sentenced him to death; he was executed on 11 October 1946.
Arbeitsführer and Rapportführer
The court considered his participation in executions, abuse of prisoners and the shooting of a prisoner during the camp evacuation. He was sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 and executed at Landsberg on 29 May 1946.
commander of the Sipo and SD office in Genoa
He participated in preparing and carrying out the execution of 59 prisoners at the Turchino Pass in May 1944. In 1999 Italy sentenced him in absentia to life; the BGH overturned the German 7-year judgment of 2002 in 2004 and terminated the proceedings.
manager of a plant using female prisoner labour
Trial sources document beatings of women prisoners, orders for violence and the preparation of lists of women sent to Uckermark. In November 1947 a British court sentenced him to death; he was executed at Hamelin on 26 February 1948.
senior SS medical orderly in the prisoner infirmary
At trial he was accused of participating in killing sick prisoners by injections; the court found his assistance and participation in the camp’s criminal system. He was sentenced to death on 14 August 1947 and executed at Landsberg on 26 November 1948.
chief camp physician
The court considered lethal injections given to women prisoners, preparation to kill sick prisoners and participation in executions. He was sentenced to death on 13 December 1945 and executed at Landsberg on 29 May 1946.
chief of staff of the 6th SS Panzer Army
The trial record notes that, as chief of staff, he prepared the order of the day signed by Sepp Dietrich; the prosecution linked that document to an appeal to fight without humane inhibitions and not to be concerned about prisoners. A United States military court found him guilty and on 16 July 1946 sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment.
roll-call leader at the Mettenheim I subcamp
The United States military review held it proven that, as roll-call leader, he personally beat prisoners and that some victims died from the beatings. A United States military court found him guilty and sentenced him to death on 23 September 1947; the sentence was carried out on 7 June 1951.
Luftwaffe physician and initiator of typhus-vaccine experiments on prisoners
The Doctors' Trial judgment cited his request of 13 December 1943 for prisoners to be supplied for typhus-vaccine trials and found him a principal or accessory who ordered, abetted and knowingly took part in plans for non-consensual experiments; the RKI also states that he initiated such experiments himself. United States Military Tribunal I found him guilty on Counts II and III and in August 1947 sentenced him to life imprisonment.
editor-in-chief of Das Schwarze Korps and commander of Waffen-SS propaganda
He co-wrote the screenplay for the antisemitic film Der ewige Jude, edited a paper built on incitement and denunciation, and led an apparatus that secured disproportionately extensive, glorifying coverage for the Waffen-SS while also developing psychological-warfare operations. These were denazification rulings, not a war-crimes conviction: in 1950 a Berlin chamber classified him as a major offender and imposed 10 years' confinement; later proceedings added financial penalties.
SD foreign-intelligence officer who supplied explosives for attacks on Paris synagogues
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces states that he supplied the explosives used by the Mouvement social révolutionnaire to bomb seven synagogues in Paris during the night of 2–3 October 1941. After the Marseille proceeding was discontinued, a Paris military court convicted him on 20 April 1950 for participation in the attacks and imposed 1 year's imprisonment or a fine of 6,000 francs.
prisoner-detail leader in the Wiener Graben quarry
The military review recorded testimony that he daily beat prisoners with a cat-o'-nine-tails and sticks, kicked them unconscious, drove them into the guard line and ordered people pushed from the quarry cliff; he personally presided over the pushing of three Soviet prisoners of war. A United States military court in the Mauthausen main trial found him guilty and sentenced him to death; the reviewing authority recommended approval of the sentence.
contract physician and head of the Flossenbürg prisoner hospital
The judicial review attributed to him the selection of sick prisoners for killing by phenol or Evipan injections, as well as participation in unnecessary operations and neglect of patients. A United States military court found him guilty and sentenced him to death; the reviewing authority found the guilt proved, recommended no clemency, and Schmitz was executed on 26 November 1948.
chief of Office A V and deputy chief of Office Group A in the WVHA
The tribunal found that he knew of the slave character of prisoner labour and played an important part in administratively maintaining that system; separately, in 1963 he was convicted of aiding the murder of Franz Bläsner during the 1934 purge. In the Pohl trial he received 25 years' imprisonment, reduced on review to 20 years and later to 15 years; he was released in March 1954. In 1963 a Munich court imposed 3 years for aiding murder.
aviation-medicine consultant and co-planner of the Dachau seawater experiments
The tribunal found him criminally connected with planning the seawater experiments at Dachau concentration camp, in which prisoners were subjected to brutal treatment, pain and suffering. The tribunal found him guilty on the war-crimes and crimes-against-humanity counts and on 20 August 1947 sentenced him to 20 years; the term was reduced to 10 years and he was released in November 1952.