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Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2 May 1945) was a German member of the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Schutzstaffel (SS) from 1933 to 1945. He was a deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp .
Karl Fritzsch war ein deutscher SS-Hauptsturmführer in der Funktion eines Schutzhaftlagerführers, der 1941 im KZ Auschwitz I das zur Entwesung bestimmte Zyklon B probeweise zur Vergasung von Häftlingen einsetzte.
Karl Fritzsch was a SS officer who ran the Auschwitz and Flossenbürg camps. He was accused of inventing the first gassing of inmates at Auschwitz, but this claim is disputed by historians.
Sep 3, 2016 · SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2 May 1945), was a German SS Captain and Auschwitz concentration camp Deputy who first suggested using poisonous gas Zyklon B for the purpose of mass murder according to Rudolf Höss and experimented with the first gassings himself.
Some of these figures became notorious, such as main camp (Auschwitz I Concentration Camp) directors SS-Haupsturmführer Karl Fritzsch and SS-Haupsturmführer Hans Aumeier, or the main camp Rapportführers, SS-Hauptscharführer Gerhard Palitzsch and SS-Oberscharführer Oswald Kaduk.
Aug 30, 2005 · Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum historian Franciszek Piper says that using Zyklon-B to kill people was the brainchild of deputy camp commandant Hauptsturmfuehrer SS Karl Fritzsch, who also supervised the first poison gas operations.
Mar 9, 2011 · News. 70th Anniversary of the First Mass Gas Killing. 03-09-2011. The first trial of the mass killing of prisoners with the use of Zyklon-B in the Auschwitz camp probably began seventy years ago, on September 3, 1941, when 850 prisoners were killed.
