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Josef Seuß
Josef Seuß served as work-detail commander and senior functionary in the Dachau camp system. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau and Radolfzell 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
- Josef Seuß was born in Nuremberg on 3 March 1906 and executed at Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As work-detail commander at Radolfzell he admitted beating prisoners; witness Josef Lausterer described blows with hands and a stick, kicks and prisoners being kicked down an embankment. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A US military court found him guilty in the main Dachau camp trial on 13 December 1945, sentenced him to death, and the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes only Seuss’s documented function, his own admission and individualising testimony, together with the responsibility established by the judgment. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- During his service at Radolfzell he commanded a work detail and used violence against prisoners. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 13 December 1945 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 guilty finding of 13 December 1945, the death sentence was affirmed and carried out at Landsberg on 28 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
Witness accounts are identified as testimony, and not every act of the Dachau staff or other subcamps is assigned to Seuss. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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