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Stefan Baretzki
Stefan Baretzki served as Block leader and commander of the Canada labour detail at Auschwitz-Birkenau.. 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
- He was born on 24 March 1919 in Chernivtsi and died on 21 June 1988 in Bad Nauheim. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The court convicted him of murder in 5 cases and of joint aiding of joint murder; trial records also connect him to selections and violence against prisoners. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The 1965 judgment became final on 20 February 1969; on 21 June 1988 Baretzki died by suicide while serving the sentence. (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 bases its account of conduct on the final judgment and trial record, not on camp-staff membership alone. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1942 to January 1945 he served at Auschwitz-Birkenau as a block leader and commander of the Canada detail. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Arrested in 1960, he was convicted in 1965 and the judgment became final in 1969. (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
The 1965 judgment became final on 20 February 1969; on 21 June 1988 Baretzki died by suicide while serving the sentence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No portrait with licensing safe for publication was verified; the profile remains unillustrated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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