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Percival “Percy” Treite

Sentenced to death on 3 February 1947; died by suicide on 8 April 1947 before the sentence was carried out. 1911–1947

Percival “Percy” Treite served as SS camp doctor at Ravensbrück who performed forced abortions and sterilizations. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Ravensbrück through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Nazi medicineConcentration campsMedical experiments

Confirmed findings

Percival “Percy” Treite was born in Berlin on 10 September 1911 and died in a Hamburg prison on 8 April 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
From 1943 to 1945, as a camp doctor at Ravensbrück, he performed forced abortions; he admitted carrying out 10 such procedures, and the archival record also documents forced sterilizations. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
A British military court sentenced him to death on 3 February 1947 for crimes connected with his medical activity in the camp; he died by suicide on 8 April 1947. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 attributes Treite’s own forced procedures and documented medical responsibility to him, distinguishing them from experiments by other doctors that should not automatically be assigned to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Key events and mechanisms

From 1943 to 1945 he worked as an SS doctor at Ravensbrück and performed at least 10 documented forced abortions. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
On 3 February 1947 he was sentenced to death; on 8 April 1947, before execution, he died by suicide in prison. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

No victim-count ranking

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

In the first Ravensbrück trial, a British military court sentenced him to death on 3 February 1947; Treite died by suicide on 8 April 1947, so the sentence was not carried out. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Limits of the evidence

The sources distinguish Treite’s abortions and sterilizations and his treatment of women after experiments from the entire experimental programme conducted by other doctors; the profile preserves that distinction. 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: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Sources

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