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Benno Orendi

Sentenced to death in the fourth Ravensbrück trial and executed on 17 September 1948. 1918–1948

Benno Orendi served as SS camp doctor at Ravensbrück and Stutthof. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Ravensbrück and Stutthof through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

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Confirmed findings

Benno Orendi was born in Sibiu on 29 March 1918 and was an SS doctor. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
In 1944 he served as a camp doctor at Ravensbrück and then at Stutthof. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
He was sentenced to death in the fourth Ravensbrück trial and executed at Hameln on 17 September 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Place in the chain of responsibility

The profile attributes his participation in selections as found by the court and his documented medical posts, without extending responsibility to every act by the medical staff of both camps. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Key events and mechanisms

In 1944 he served as an SS camp doctor at Ravensbrück and then took the same post at Stutthof. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
In 1948 a British military court sentenced him to death for participating in selections. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

No victim-count ranking

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

A British military court sentenced him to death for participating in selections; he was executed at Hameln on 17 September 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Limits of the evidence

The account is limited to the cited findings; it gives no victim total and attributes no experiments without separate evidence. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Sources

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