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Arthur Conrad
Arthur Conrad served as command staff member and SS guard. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Ravensbrück through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Arthur Conrad was born on 26 June 1910 in Deuben and died on 17 September 1948 in Hamelin. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From March 1942 to April 1945 he served on the command staff of Ravensbrück concentration camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A British military court held him responsible for shooting prisoners, including weakened people during the death march in April 1945. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to death on 15 July 1948 and executed at Hamelin on 17 September 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes to Arthur Conrad only the documented role and conduct described in the cited sources, without transferring to him every crime committed by the institutions or units with which he was associated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From March 1942 to April 1945 he served on the command staff of Ravensbrück concentration camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to death on 15 July 1948 and executed at Hamelin on 17 September 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
After the war he was tried in the fifth Ravensbrück staff trial and executed. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile is limited to conduct identified in the record of the fifth Ravensbrück trial. No individual victim total is assigned, and no additional order or act is attributed without an explicit source finding. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.