Bruno Schlage

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Bruno Schlage (born February 11, 1903 in Trutenau , East Prussia, † February 9, 1977 in Minden , North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German SS sergeant . He was employed as a camp overseer in Auschwitz and was sentenced to six years in prison in 1965 for murder .

Life

Schlage was born in 1903 as the son of a worker. After attending elementary school, he initially worked briefly on the railroad. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and attended the foremen's school. He then worked as a bricklayer foreman at a company in Königsberg. After the seizure of power he became a member of the German Labor Front , from the spring of 1940 he worked for a police force, and later for an SS standard in occupied Poland .

Auschwitz

At the end of 1940 Schlage was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp and initially worked in the guards. He then worked in the protective custody camp management department as block leader and in block 11 of the main camp in Auschwitz as arrest overseer. In Block 11 there was a cellar in which, among other things, standing cells measuring almost one square meter were set up and in which prisoners sometimes starved to death. In addition, he was commissioned as a command leader of work groups in the Golleschau cement factory in Auschwitz . Until the camp was evacuated, he was a member of the SS. His last rank was the rank of SS-Unterscharfuhrer .

post war period

From May 1945 Schlage was a prisoner of war in Poland, from which he was released on August 8, 1949. During his imprisonment he was able to keep his activities in Auschwitz a secret. From October 1961 until his arrest on April 13, 1964, he worked as a caretaker, after which he was taken into custody. In the first Auschwitz trial he was sentenced to six years in prison by the Frankfurt am Main jury court in 1965 for joint aiding and abetting in joint murder. His closing words read from the slip of paper:

“ I had to do my service as requested. We could not refuse orders when our country was at war. The oath on the supreme warlord was binding on me. We didn't have time to review the orders. The orders were to be carried out immediately. "

After he was granted reprieve in 1969, he was released from prison. Bruno Schlage died in February 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, 1980, p. 569

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personal data
SURNAME Hit, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German camp overseer in Auschwitz
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Trutenau
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1977
Place of death Minden