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Oswald Kaduk
Oswald Kaduk served as Rapportführer at Auschwitz. 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
- Oswald Kaduk: 1906-08-26–1997-05-31. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage)
- As Rapportführer at Auschwitz, he personally murdered prisoners and participated as a co-perpetrator in 2 selections in which at least 1002 people were selected for death. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage)
- On 1947-08-25 a Soviet military tribunal sentenced him to 25 years of forced labour, he was pardoned on 1956-04-26, and on 1965-08-19 a Frankfurt court sentenced him to life imprisonment for 10 murders and co-perpetration of murder in 2 cases involving at least 1002 victims; he was released in 1989. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State 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: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As Rapportführer at Auschwitz, he personally murdered prisoners and participated as a co-perpetrator in 2 selections in which at least 1002 people were selected for death. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage)
- On 1947-08-25 a Soviet military tribunal sentenced him to 25 years of forced labour, he was pardoned on 1956-04-26, and on 1965-08-19 a Frankfurt court sentenced him to life imprisonment for 10 murders and co-perpetration of murder in 2 cases involving at least 1002 victims; he was released in 1989. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State 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 1947-08-25 a Soviet military tribunal sentenced him to 25 years of forced labour, he was pardoned on 1956-04-26, and on 1965-08-19 a Frankfurt court sentenced him to life imprisonment for 10 murders and co-perpetration of murder in 2 cases involving at least 1002 victims; he was released in 1989. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
The judgment covers 10 murders and 2 selections involving at least 1002 victims; the profile does not transfer other unproven allegations to Kaduk. The portrait includes its source and CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. (Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, judgment transcript, cited passage; Source: Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, cited passage; Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, cited passage; Source: Hessian State Archives, cited passage)
Sources
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