Herbert Scherpe

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Herbert Scherpe (born May 20, 1907 in Gliwice, December 23, 1997 in Mannheim) is a Nazi criminal, SS paramilitary at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and SS-Oberscharführer.

Member of the NSDAP and SS since 1931. In 1939 he was sent to the SS-Totenkopf Division and subsequently took part in the fighting with France. Because he was short-sighted, he was transferred to the Concentration Camps Inspectorate in Oranienburg, where he underwent training as a paramedic. In the summer of 1940 Scherpe was sent to the Auschwitz camp as an SS paramilitary. By 1943 he had been serving in the hospital of the Auschwitz I primary camp. He was then actively involved in the murders of Phenol. However, after the murder of a number of children, Scherpe refused to participate in the killings and was transferred to the Auschwitz sub-camp, Blechhammer. He also served in the Gleiwitz and Golleschau sub-camps.

At the end of the war he initially stayed in the POW camp, then lived in Mannheim. In 1961 Scherpe was arrested by the West German authorities. During the second Auschwitz trial, he was sentenced by the Frankfurt am Main Court to four and a half years' imprisonment. Bibliography

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