Erika flakes

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Erika Flocken (born November 12, 1912 in Abterode ; † April 4, 1965 ) was a doctor at the Todt Organization and also worked in this function in the Mühldorf concentration camp external command .

Life

Flocken, a doctor of medicine, worked from June 1944 to April 1945 as a senior doctor of the Organization Todt (OT) in the OT hospital in Schwindegg as a civilian employee . In this function, she was also responsible for the prisoners of the Mühldorf external command, a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp . She is said to have neglected sick inmates and denied them medical help. Flocken was involved in the selection of prisoners in Mühldorf on September 25 and October 25, 1944. The first transport of the disabled comprised 277 men and three women, the second 554 men and one woman. The mostly Jewish prisoners were gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp .

After her arrest, on April 1, 1947, during the Mühldorf Trial , which took place as part of the Dachau Trials , Flocken was tried by an American military court with 13 other accused on charges of war crimes . On May 13, 1947 flake was due to pre exempt selections to death by the strand convicted. She was one of the first women to be sentenced to death by an American military tribunal. The death penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment . On August 16, 1956, the life sentence was reduced to 38 years. However, Flocken was prematurely suspended on April 29, 1957 from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison and finally released from prison on July 13, 1958. Nothing is known about her further life.

"The Dr. Flakes was a very bad character. And I've heard of the very bad things. "

- Concentration camp survivor Walter Taus

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  • United States Army Investigation and Trial Records of War Criminals: United States of America v. Franz Auer et al. November 1943 – July 1958 . National Archives and Records Administration, archives.gov (PDF; 900 kB)
  • Review and Recommendations - United States of America v. Franz Auer et al. - Case No. 000-50-136 , uni-marburg.de (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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  1. ↑ a b Review and Recommendations - United States of America v. Franz Auer et al. - Case No. 000-50-136 , February 1948, p. 29 f.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , p. 395.
  3. ↑ Dr. Erika flakes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1947, p. 13 ( online ).
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 156.
  5. ↑ Armaments facilities in Mühldorfer Hart (PDF; 53 kB)
  6. ↑ http://www.kz-gedenk-mdf.de/walter-taus
personal data
SURNAME Flakes, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor from the Todt Organization
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Abterode
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1965