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Wilhelm Simon
Wilhelm Simon served as labour-allocation leader responsible for assigning prisoner labour at Mittelbau-Dora. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Mittelbau-Dora 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
- Heinrich Wilhelm Simon was born in Elberfeld on 23 April 1900 and died in Bochum on 27 September 1971. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As labour-allocation leader at Mittelbau-Dora he assigned prisoner labour; in his statement of 3 December 1947 he admitted beating prisoners classified as homosexual. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- A US military court found him guilty on 30 December 1947 and imposed life imprisonment; he was released early in 1954. (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 links Simon’s responsibility to his documented role in the forced-labour system and his own admission of beating prisoners, not to every crime at Mittelbau-Dora. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1943–1945 he served at Mittelbau-Dora as labour-allocation leader responsible for assigning prisoner labour. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 30 December 1947 he received a life sentence; in 1954 he was released before completing it. (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 on 30 December 1947 to life imprisonment, he was released early in 1954 and died on 27 September 1971. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No victim total is assigned and his admission is not extended beyond its documented scope. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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