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Wilhelm Henkel
Wilhelm Henkel served as chief camp dental officer. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mauthausen 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
- Wilhelm Henkel was born on 14 June 1909 and was executed at Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- In 1941–1943 he served as the Waffen-SS chief dental officer at Mauthausen concentration camp. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- The parent trial ran from 29 March to 13 May 1946 and convicted him under the common-design charge of subjecting prisoners to killings, beatings, torture, starvation and other abuse. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- On 13 May 1946 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The judgment establishes Henkel’s participation in the camp system as chief dental officer. The profile does not turn the collective charge into a claim that he personally carried out every act listed in it. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1941–1943 he served as the Waffen-SS chief dental officer at Mauthausen concentration camp. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- On 13 May 1946 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited record; Source: cited 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 the parent Mauthausen case he was sentenced to death on 13 May 1946 and executed on 28 May 1947. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Limits of the evidence
The available sources establish his role and conviction under the common-design charge but do not justify attributing every act in that collective charge to him personally or assigning an individual victim total. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Sources
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