Bruno Kitt

Bruno Kitt (born August 9, 1906 in Heilsberg in East Prussia , † October 8, 1946 in Hameln ( executed )) was a German medic and SS leader . He was employed as a concentration camp doctor in the Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps .

Life

Kitt was the son of a teacher. After graduating from high school , he began studying natural sciences, but then completed a medical degree at the University of Münster and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933 and soon afterwards of the SS (SS No. 246.756). After completing his studies, he found a job with the Ruhr-Knappschaft in 1936, where he initially worked as an assistant doctor and later as a senior medical officer.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Waffen SS in March 1942 and completed basic training in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From June 1942 he was a camp doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Among other things, he served in Auschwitz II (Birkenau) as the head physician of the woman prisoner hospital and selected as such acts as ill female prisoners for gasification of. Due to a typhus disease , he had to be treated in the hospital. At times he was also a camp doctor in the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp .

The Auschwitz survivor Hermann Langbein describes Kitt as a very intelligent and sometimes even approachable camp doctor who was not a fanatical National Socialist. Kitt once asked his superior Eduard Wirths to relieve him as camp doctor so that he would not have to take part in selections. Thereupon Kitt von Wirths was briefly entrusted with the function of a troop doctor, but this did not exempt him from selecting incoming prisoner transports. Kitt received the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords , in mid-September 1943 and was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer. In July 1944, Kitt married Cläre Maus, who had worked as a laboratory assistant in Auschwitz. The couple had a son.

After the evacuation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945, Kitt was transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp in February 1945 , where he worked as a camp doctor until April / beginning of May 1945 under the location doctor Alfred Trzebinski . Kitt was responsible for treating members of the camp SS as well as for classifying concentration camp inmates with regard to their ability to work. At the end of the war, he accompanied prisoner transports from the Neuengamme satellite camps to the "reception camp" in Sandbostel . From there he accompanied a prisoner transport via Flensburg to Malmö and then returned to northern Germany.

After the end of the war, he was arrested by the British Army and charged with participating in crimes in the Neuengamme concentration camp at the Neuengamme main trial. On May 3, 1946 Kitt was to death by the strand convicted and on October 8, 1946 Hameln executed.

literature

• Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oświęcim 1998, ISBN 83-85047-35-2
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
• Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, Ullstein-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} "Open Archive" of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
2. ↑ State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oswiecim 1998, p. 233
3. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, 1980, pp. 406f.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 216