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Victor Capesius
Victor Capesius served as Head of the SS pharmacy at Auschwitz and a participant in selections on the Birkenau ramp.. 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 2 July 1907 in Reußmarkt and died on 20 March 1985 in Göppingen. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The court convicted him as an accessory to joint murder in 4 cases, each involving at least 2000 people; trial evidence concerned his participation in selections on the ramp. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Sentenced in 1965 to 9 years in prison, he was released in January 1968 after credit for pretrial custody; the judgment became final in 1969. (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 separates the judicial findings of aiding murder and participation in selections from allegations not finally established by the court. (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 January 1945 he headed the SS pharmacy in the Auschwitz complex. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1965 he received a 9-year sentence, which 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
Sentenced in 1965 to 9 years in prison, he was released in January 1968 after credit for pretrial custody; the judgment became final in 1969. (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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