Theo Schmitz

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According to Franz Schmitz (born February 4, 1904, died 19 November 1948) is a Nazi criminal, member of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and SS-Unterscharführer.

Member of the NSDAP since 1937 and Waffen-SS since October 1, 1940. Since 1940 he served in the Gusen camp as a guard. In May 1941 he was transferred to commandos serving outside the camp. He returned to Gusen Schmitz on November 2, 1942 and served there as a guard and member of the medical corps until January 1944 (he served as a paramedic in a hospital for prisoners). He resumed his service in the camp on 30 October 1944 and remained there until 28 April 1945, working in a garrison hospital. Schmitz has repeatedly selected patients and incapacitated prisoners for death: either by injection of phenol (often by injections) or by forced bath in ice-cold water.

Schmitz was tried in the eighth process of the Mauthausen-Gusen crew in front of the American Military Tribunal in Dachau. He was sentenced to death by hanging. Judgment was made on 19 November 1948 in the Landsberg prison. Bibliography

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