Johannes Gutschmidt
Johannes Gutschmidt (born November 6, 1876 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † March 11, 1961 there ) was a German officer who was commander of prisoner-of-war camps on the Eastern Front during World War II .
John Gutschmidtstraße was in World War I captain and battery commander on the Western Front . He was wounded three times and received EK I and II. At the end of the war, the top of his skull was smashed. In 1920 Gutschmidt was released from the army.
He was reactivated during World War II and from 1939 to 1944 he was in command of transit camps for prisoners of war in Poland and the Soviet Union ( Russia , Belarus and Ukraine ). During this time he kept a diary.
The 474 double pages of the diary came into the Freiburg military archive in 1971 . In 2001 it was rediscovered there by the historian Christian Hartmann and has been an important contemporary historical document ever since.
Web links
- Film by arte-tv, 2010 (Director: Anja Krug-Metzinger)
- Christian Hartmann: Mass Death or Mass Destruction? Soviet prisoners of war in "Operation Barbarossa". From the diary of a German camp commandant . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (49) 2001, pp. 97–158. PDF . Retrieved July 24, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Gutschmidt, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and camp manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Schöneberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1961 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Schöneberg |