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Klaus Dylewski
Klaus Dylewski served as officer of the Auschwitz Political Department. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz, occupied Poland 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
- Klaus Dylewski: 1916-05-11–2012-04-01. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, cited passage)
- As an Auschwitz Political Department officer, he guarded transports at the ramp and took part in bunker clearances and the executions that followed, but the court did not find that he personally selected victims. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, cited passage)
- On 1965-08-19 he was sentenced to 5 years for aiding murder in 32 cases involving at least 1530 victims; he was released in 1968. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, 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: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As an Auschwitz Political Department officer, he guarded transports at the ramp and took part in bunker clearances and the executions that followed, but the court did not find that he personally selected victims. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, cited passage)
- On 1965-08-19 he was sentenced to 5 years for aiding murder in 32 cases involving at least 1530 victims; he was released in 1968. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, 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 1965-08-19 he was sentenced to 5 years for aiding murder in 32 cases involving at least 1530 victims; he was released in 1968. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, 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: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, transcript of judgment reasons, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage; Source: Laziska Gorne Municipality, cited passage)
Sources
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