Publication log
On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.
stenographer in the camp commandant’s office
As a stenographer in the Stutthof commandant’s office, she handled paperwork necessary to the camp’s operation. Her final conviction covered aiding the murder of 10,505 prisoners and attempted murder in 5 cases; she received a suspended sentence of 2 years.
SS man, block leader and deputy satellite-camp leader
As an SS man at Neuengamme and the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp, he took part in the murder of children and adult prisoners. In the British proceedings he admitted placing nooses around the children’s necks; he was sentenced to death in July 1946 and executed at Hamelin on 11 October 1946.
Gauleiter, Reich Governor and head of Hamburg’s administration
As Gauleiter and Reich Governor he concentrated Hamburg’s principal offices in his hands. He was directly involved in establishing the Fuhlsbüttel and Neuengamme camps and initiated the deportation of Hamburg’s Jews; after the war he received no criminal conviction.
satellite-camp commandant and Waffen-SS officer
As commandant of the Wiener Neudorf satellite camp, he was responsible for its operation, negotiated prisoner labour with companies and took part in evacuation planning. A U.S. military court sentenced him to death; he was executed at Landsberg on 29 October 1948.
Gauleiter, Reich Governor and minister-president of Saxony
As Gauleiter, Reich Governor and minister-president of Saxony, he concentrated regional party and state power. Sources assign him co-responsibility for early camps in Saxony, Jewish deportations and the treatment of Soviet POWs; a Soviet court sentenced him to death, and he was executed in Moscow on 14 February 1947.
arrest-block supervisor and direct perpetrator of murders
As supervisor of the arrest block at Buchenwald concentration camp, he tortured prisoners and killed them by injection. The Bayreuth Regional Court convicted him of 25 murders and sentenced him to life imprisonment on 3 July 1958; the sentence remained in force until his death.
SS guard
The Verona Military Tribunal found Michael Seifert guilty of murdering eleven prisoners at the Bolzano transit camp with premeditation, cruelty and torture. Sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in 2000, he was extradited to Italy in 2008 and died in custody in 2010.
Chief of the Luftwaffe Medical Service
Oskar Schröder became Chief of the Luftwaffe Medical Service in January 1944. The Doctors’ Trial tribunal found that he was responsible for, aided and abetted, and took a consenting part in experiments on non-German nationals who had not consented. He received a life sentence in 1947, later reduced to 15 years, and was paroled on 1 April 1954.
commandant of the Hannover-Ahlem satellite camp
Otto Harder belonged to the SS and served at the Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps before becoming commandant of the Hannover-Ahlem satellite camp in November 1944. A British military court convicted him of war crimes in 1947 and sentenced him to 15 years; he was released early in 1951.
commandant’s adjutant and command-staff leader
Robert Mulka served as the Auschwitz commandant’s adjutant and command-staff leader. The Frankfurt court found that he helped set the extermination machinery in motion, including by providing trucks and transporting Zyklon B, and in 1965 convicted him as an accessory to murder in four cases involving at least 750 people each, sentencing him to 14 years of penal servitude.
Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service
Siegfried Handloser was Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service. The Doctors’ Trial tribunal found that, knowing non-German nationals were being used in experiments, he failed to exercise the required control over subordinates. He received a life sentence in 1947, reduced to 20 years in 1951; imprisonment was interrupted for severe illness in 1954.
block leader and camp clerk
An SS-Hauptscharführer and block leader at Dachau concentration camp. The review record linked him to prisoner mistreatment, the killing of one prisoner and participation in executions; he was sentenced to death and executed on 28 May 1946.
supreme party judge and Reichsleiter
The Nazi Party’s supreme party judge and a Reichsleiter. In February 1939 he forwarded to Göring the party court report on the violence of 9–10 November 1938; it recorded lenient party sanctions and efforts to quash criminal proceedings, but it does not show that Buch ordered the pogrom.
deputy Wehrmacht commander in the Southeast
A Wehrmacht general and deputy commander in the Southeast. The Hostages Trial held him responsible as commander for unlawful reprisals and for failing to act on reported persecution of Jews and Roma; it expressly did not find that he ordered their shooting or transfer to a collecting camp. He was medically released in February 1953 without the conviction being set aside.
chief camp dental officer
The Waffen-SS chief dental officer at Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941–1943. A United States military court convicted him in the parent Mauthausen case under the common-design charge concerning the camp system of abuse; the profile does not attribute every act in the collective charge to him individually.
commandant of the police prison
The last commandant of the Fuhlsbüttel police prison. Institutional records document his participation in Gestapo interrogations, use of cell informers and support for mistreatment, as well as taking five Russian forced labourers to their execution in 1943; a British military court sentenced him to death.
labour-deployment officer who organized prisoner forced labour at Buchenwald and Mittelbau
Labour-deployment officer at Buchenwald and Mittelbau who organized the prisoner forced-labour system. Sentenced to death, then commuted to life imprisonment and released in 1954; the profile does not attribute a specific killing to him.
second camp physician involved in prisoner selections at Buchenwald
Second camp physician at Buchenwald, involved in labour-fitness selections and selections for transports to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sentenced to ten years in 1947, his term was reduced to three years in 1948 and he was released.
deputy camp leader of the Dachau subcamp at Riederloh
Deputy camp leader of the Dachau subcamp at Riederloh, convicted by a U.S. military court for the proven murder of at least 19 Jewish prisoners. He was executed at Landsberg on 14 November 1947.
commander of guard companies in the Mauthausen camp complex
Waffen-SS guard-company commander in the Mauthausen complex, including service at Ebensee. A U.S. court sentenced him to 10 years; after extradition to Poland he was convicted again and executed on 13 September 1950.