Josef Klehr (* 17 October 1904 in Langenau, Upper Silesia; "† 1988) were as (SDG) in the concentration camp Auschwitz.

Life

Klehr was born 1904 in Langenau (Upper Silesia) as a son of a educator. After the attendance of the elementary school he learned the carpenter handicraft. Until 1934 he worked as if carpenter-associated. At the end of of 1934 (after a futile attempt as educators in the same institute, in which its father was active, to find accomodation) he became male nurse Heil-und institute for care in Leubus. Starting from 1938 he transferred a place as an auxiliary being awake master in the penintentiary Wehlau. Already in the autumn Klehr of the general SS had joined 1932. Into August 1939 it was drawn to the weapon SS. He came to the security guard of the KZ beech forest. 1940 were shifted Klehr as a SS-medic in the KZ Dachau; in October 1941 it was carried to the and abkommandiert in the KZ Auschwitz. There it was used in the building of prisoner patients of the base camp as leading medics.

Klehr was notorious for its "hosing down "(murder by phenol injection into the heart muscle) from prisoners.

"Klehr loved it to select after the investigation of the ill prisoners by the camp physician further prisoners in the patient halls of the building of prisoner patients for the killing by phenol as well as the camp physician the camp had left. It went through patient block and selected arbitrarily Jewish prisoners from ["…] [It] a preference for straight numbers had. It wanted to round up the number of the prisoners selected by the camp physician to the killing upward "‚'. "(Demant)

Klehr was directly involved in the mass murders in the Gaskammern. In a set of cases it in-poured cyclone B into the Gaskammern, after "Jewish humans, who came with a Central Reich Security Office transport, were enclosed there. "(Demant)

After 1945

To the evacuation of the KZ Auschwitz in January 1945 came Klehr over Czechoslovakia to Austria. There it turned out in May 1945 into American shank. It was brought in the prisoner-of-war camp after and condemned by a camp court because of affiliation to the SS to 3 years labour camps.

1948 it became after Braunschweig to dismiss. There he worked up to his renewed arrest in September 1960 as Tischler.Im Frankfurt Auschwitz process it to lifelong penintentiary and further 15 years penintentiary because of murder in "all at least 475 cases "and aid to the murder in several thousand cases was condemned. It became 1988 to dismiss and deceased in the same year.

Literature

• Demant, Ebbo (Hg.): Auschwitz - "direct away from the ramp"Â…" Kaduk, Erber, Klehr: Three authors give to minutes. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3499144387

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