Otto Moll (born at the 1915 in high beautiful mountain/Mecklenburg, "† 28. May 1946 in Landsberg, executed) was and boss of the crematoria in Auschwitz Birkenau.Nach of a professional training as a gardner assistant occurred Moll 1933 the freiwilligen work service Velten (Mark). In May 1935 he became SS-candidate with the SS-Wachverband Brandenburg, which was stationed in Oranienburg. On 16 November 1936 Moll was taken up to the SS. 1938 - 1941 were Moll in the concentration camp Saxonia living as a command leader of the market garden actively. At the beginning of of May 1941 it was shifted after Auschwitz. 1942 to 1944 it was busy in different functions in the crematoria of the extermination camp and was characterised with the treatment of the prisoners by a special Sadismus, which registered to it the surname "Henker of Auschwitz". The last station of Molls SS-career was from February to April 1945 the camp purchase ring, a Nebenlager of the concentration camp Dachau. In May 1945 he was arrested by the Americans.

Otto Moll was condemned in the Dachauer so mentioned process against the KZ-crews to death.

Literature:

Schmid, Hans: Otto Moll - "the Henker of Auschwitz", in: Magazine for science of history 2 (2006), P. 118-138.

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