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Otto Moll
Otto Moll served as commandant of Fürstengrube and head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Fürstengrube 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
- Otto Moll was born at Hohenschönberg on 4 March 1915 and served in the SS garrison of the Auschwitz complex. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As the first commandant of Fürstengrube he personally shot randomly selected prisoners after an escape; at Birkenau he supervised the crematoria and terror against the Sonderkommando. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A US military court sentenced him to death in the Dachau camp trial; he was hanged at Landsberg 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 links Moll's documented posts to a specific killing and supervision of mass-murder facilities without attributing every act of their staff to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1943 he commanded the Fürstengrube subcamp, and in 1944 he was reassigned to the Birkenau crematorium apparatus. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He received a death sentence in December 1945, 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
A US military court sentenced him to death in the Dachau camp trial; he was hanged 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
No individual victim total is inferred beyond conduct stated in the sources. No portrait with a safely verified licence is available. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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