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Wilhelm Dörr (February 9, 1921 – December 13, 1945) was a German SS-''Oberscharführer''〔Jens Christian Wagner: Kleinbodungen central warehouse, in: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror - History of the Nazi concentration camp, Volume 7, Munich 2008, pp. 317〕 and concentration camp officer. He served as a guard at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and as deputy commander of the sub-camp of Kleinbodungen. Following World War II he was convicted of war crimes by British occupation authorities in the Belsen Trial and executed. == Life == Wilhelm Dörr was born in the town of Merenberg, Hesse on February 9, 1921 and raised in Emmerichenhain (Rennerod) where he worked primarily as a farmhand. Dörr was a member of the Hitler Youth from 1932 to 1939 and volunteered for the Waffen-SS in December, 1940 after being rejected for service by the Wehrmacht.〔(Dorr Basic Information, British Belsen Trial Online# bergen.belsen.co.uk )〕 While training to become a combat engineer in Dresden in October, 1941, he became seriously ill with rheumatism and was confined to a hospital for several months. Following his recovery, Dörr was reassigned to the ''SS-Totenkopfverbände'' in the summer of 1942. He went on to serve as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until December, 1943.〔Jens Christian Wagner: Kleinbodungen central warehouse, in: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror - History of the Nazi concentration camp, Volume 7, Munich 2008, pp. 316f. 316f〕 In January, 1944 Dörr was transferred to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp where he initially functioned as ''Blockführer'' (Block Leader) in the central camp complex before being appointed as deputy to ''Hauptscharführer'' Franz Stofel, commander of the sub-camp of Kleinbodungen, in September, 1944.〔(Dorr's statement at the Belsen trial )〕 At Kleinbodungen, Dörr helped manage roughly 620 camp inmates used as slave-laborers in Mittelwerk, the armaments production facility used to manufacture Germany’s V-2 ballistic missiles. When US troops appeared poised to capture Mittelbau-Dora and its environs in April, 1945, the evacuation of the camp was ordered. Dörr was one of 45 SS men who led a brutal death march of hundreds of Kleinbodungen inmates to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Lower Saxony. During the journey the SS conducted numerous summary executions of prisoners who attempted to escape or otherwise slowed the progress of the march.〔Sellier, Andre. A History of the Dora Camp. Chicago:Ivan R. Dee. 2003, Biographical Bibliography# A History of the Dora Camp by Andre Sellier〕 Four days after Dörr and his group arrived at Bergen-Belsen the camp was liberated by British troops. He was arrested and indicted for the atrocities which had occurred during the death march from Mittelbau-Dora. Dörr was tried along with 45 other alleged war criminals before a British military court in Lüneburg as part of the so-called Belsen Trial.〔(Dorr Basic Information, British Belsen Trial Online# bergen.belsen.co.uk )〕 He pled not guilty to the charges but was nevertheless convicted and sentenced to death. Dörr was executed by hanging in Hamelin Prison on December 13, 1945.〔Working Group on Tracing - ''National Socialism in the Westerwald: Remembering for the Future - 60 years after the liberation of the Nazi regime in the Westerwald'', Montabaur 2005, pp. 13f# Working group on tracing national socialism]〕 His executioner was Albert Pierrepoint, aided by an assistant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Dörr (Nazi)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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