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Werner Alfred Berger
Werner Alfred Berger served as member of the execution unit Kommando 99 at Buchenwald. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald 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
- Werner Alfred Berger was born in Konstanz on 22 February 1901 and died in Rottweil on 10 June 1964. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- At Buchenwald he headed the prisoners’ effects room and belonged to Kommando 99, which carried out executions. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Berger’s own trial testimony, analysed in archival research, stated that on about 15 occasions he personally fired through a slit in the wall. (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 Berger’s own shooting actions and participation in the execution unit to him, not the unit’s entire number of killings. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- As a member of Kommando 99 he participated in executions and testified to firing a shot on about 15 occasions. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1947 he received a life sentence; he died in 1964, and the cited sources do not establish the later course of his sentence. (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
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1947. He died in 1964; the cited sources do not document the date or basis of any later release. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The approximately 800 people killed in the charge referred to the Kommando’s activity during the charged period, not to Berger’s personal victim total. The cited sources do not establish the later course of his sentence. No approved portrait for publication was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.