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Michael Seifert
Michael Seifert served as SS guard. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Bolzano, Italy 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
- Michael Seifert was born on 16 March 1924 in Landau and died in custody at Caserta on 6 November 2010. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
- From December 1944 to April 1945 he served as an SS guard at the Bolzano transit camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
- An Italian military court sentenced him to life imprisonment in 2000 for the murders of eleven prisoners; he was extradited to Italy in 2008. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes to Seifert only the acts and service period established by the Italian military courts, together with the documented course of extradition and sentence enforcement. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
Key events and mechanisms
- From December 1944 to April 1945 he served as an SS guard at the Bolzano transit camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
- He received a life sentence in 2000 and was extradited to Italy in 2008 to serve it. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
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
He was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in 2000. After the Canadian extradition proceedings, he was surrendered to Italy in 2008 and died in custody on 6 November 2010. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
Limits of the evidence
The account does not extend the judgment to charges on which Seifert was acquitted or to other crimes committed at the camp. The eleven victims are the scope of the final judicial finding, not a complete tally of violence at Bolzano. 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: Apcom dispatch archived by La Provincia di Como)
Sources
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