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Karl Genzken
Karl Genzken served as head of the Waffen-SS Medical Office. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Germany 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
- Karl Genzken: 1885-06-08–1957-10-10. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
- As head of the Waffen-SS Medical Office, Karl Genzken supervised personnel conducting typhus experiments, and the tribunal found that he was responsible for and aided experiments on prisoners without their consent; the experiments caused deaths. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
- On 1947-08-20, he was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS and sentenced to life imprisonment; the sentence was reduced to 20 years, and he was released on parole on 1954-04-17. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile separates the documented office and individual conduct from the wider crimes of the institution or subordinate formation. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As head of the Waffen-SS Medical Office, Karl Genzken supervised personnel conducting typhus experiments, and the tribunal found that he was responsible for and aided experiments on prisoners without their consent; the experiments caused deaths. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
- On 1947-08-20, he was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS and sentenced to life imprisonment; the sentence was reduced to 20 years, and he was released on parole on 1954-04-17. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
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
On 1947-08-20, he was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal SS and sentenced to life imprisonment; the sentence was reduced to 20 years, and he was released on parole on 1954-04-17. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Only claims tied to the cited evidence are included. No individual victim total or additional order is attributed without separate proof. No portrait was selected because rights were not verified. (Source: Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, cited passage; Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: US National Archives, cited passage)
Sources
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