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Pery Broad
Pery Broad served as official of the Auschwitz Political Department. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz-Birkenau 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
- Pery Broad was born in Rio de Janeiro on 25 April 1921 and served in the Political Department of Auschwitz concentration camp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The court found that he aided twenty bunker shootings and two cases connected with ramp duty. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1965 the Frankfurt court imposed an aggregate four-year hard-labour sentence; with pre-trial detention credited, he was released in 1966. (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 preserves the court's legal finding of aiding, rather than treating him as the principal perpetrator of all crimes examined at trial. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- At Auschwitz he worked in the camp police apparatus and took part in execution-related activity and ramp duty. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 19 August 1965 the court explained his conviction for twenty-two instances of aiding murder. (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
In 1965 the Frankfurt court imposed an aggregate four-year hard-labour sentence; with pre-trial detention credited, he was released in 1966. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
It does not repeat allegations the court did not find proven or infer a separate victim total. 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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