Rudolf Gustav Klein

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Rudolf Gustav Klein (born 1921, died 29 October 1948) is a Nazi criminal, member of the concentration camp Mauthausen-Gusen and SS-Oberscharführer.

Member of the Waffen-SS since February 1939. He was a member of the Gusen camp staff from February 1940. Initially, he was serving guard post in March 1942. Then from March to August 1942 Klein was a block assistant at Gusen. He was known in the camp for being abused by prisoners constantly kicking them. Many of them permanently mutilated. He also participated in the murder of ill and incapacitated prisoners in the so-called " Totbadeaktionen. Klein and the other SS men placed them under the campers, then poured ice cold water over them for a long time, bringing many of them to death in this way.

Rudolf Gustav Klein was tried in the trial of Mauthausen-Gusen (US vs. Andreas Battermann et al.) before the American Military Tribunal in Dachau. He was sentenced to death by hanging. Judgment was made at the end of October 1948 in Landsberg prison. Bibliography

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