Hans-Heinz Schuett

Hans-Heinz Friedrich Karl Schütt (born April 6, 1908 in Dummersdorf ; † unknown) was a German SS squad leader and involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt " in the Sobibor extermination camp . Schütt was acquitted in the Sobibor trial .

Life

Schütt broke off his school career at the grammar school prematurely for lack of money. He completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked in various companies. From the beginning of the 1930s he found a job with the " German National Handlers Association " (DHV). In 1933 he became a member of the SS and in 1934 the German Labor Front (DAF). At DAF he took on coordinating accounting functions for the areas of Saxony, Pomerania and Silesia. After a conflict with the DAF director Robert Ley , he briefly attended the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1936 . After that he worked for a short time at the “Reichsstelle für Getreide”, where, among other things, he organized pig fattening events. The NSDAP he joined the 1937th From 1938 he worked full-time for the SS and took over the administrative management of Sturmbanns II / 6 in Berlin . In autumn 1939 he was ordered to "Aktion T4".

In this context, he was employed as administrative manager of the Nazi killing center Grafeneck and from spring 1941 at the Nazi killing center Hadamar . From late summer 1941 he worked in the administrative area of Aktion T4 headquarters in Berlin . In the course of "Aktion Reinhardt" he was transferred to the Sobibor extermination camp at the end of April 1942. There Schütt was responsible for office work and payroll accounting as a warehouse accountant. He took the valuables from the naked victims and worked in a counter behind a pane of glass in front of their gassing . Next to this counter was usually a young Jew called "Gold Jew" or "Little Max" to reassure the victims. When asked why he was standing on the ramp, Schütt replied: “ [Herewith] I declare that it was out of curiosity. I wanted to convince myself of the inhumanity of the Final Solution and pass on my impressions to Berlin. "

He also paid attention to the cleanliness of the barracks of the Sonderkommando and performed ramp duty. In August 1942 he was transferred to the Waffen SS . For reasons unknown, he was later sentenced to six years in prison and released towards the end of the war. He was briefly deployed on the Eastern Front.

After the end of the war he was arrested in the course of the investigation into Hadamar and Grafeneck, but was not charged in the Hadamar trial . When he was first interrogated, he did not say he was in the Sobibór extermination camp. Schütt later became a city councilor in Soltau . In the course of the investigation in the early 1960s, Schütt was arrested. In 1966 he was finally acquitted in the Sobibor trial on charges of complicity in the collective murder of at least 86,000 people because of putative emergency . Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

• Information material from Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz e. V .: Nice times - collection of material on the extermination camps of Aktion Reinhardt Belzec, Sobibor, Sobibor. Antifa Cafe, 1997.
• Dick de Mildt: In the Name of the people: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Post-War Prosecution in West-Germany - The 'Euthanasia' an 'Aktion Reinhard' Trial Cases . Kluwer law International, Netherlands 1996, ISBN 90-411-0185-3 .
• Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp . Unrast-Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-814-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dick de Mildt: In the Name of the people: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Post-War Prosecution in West-Germany - The 'Euthanasia' an 'Aktion Reinhard' Trial Cases . Netherlands 1996, pp. 214f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dick de Mildt: In the Name of the people: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Post-War Prosecution in West-Germany - The 'Euthanasia' an 'Aktion Reinhard' Trial Cases. Netherlands 1996, p. 218f.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. 2003, p. 309.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Hans-Heinz Schütt on deathcamps.org
5. ↑ Heike Kleffner , Miriam Rürup : The forgotten Sobibor extermination camp: Overview of the legal prosecution of Nazi perpetrators and the public perception . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 7, 2003, on klick-nach-rechts.de
6. ↑ Justice and Nazi crimes: Judgment in the Sobibor trial ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.