Oswald Kaduk was born on 26 August 1906. I think a line from an Iron Maiden song applies to him, “All the evil seem to live forever.” He died on 31 May 1997. He was a German SS member and served as Rapportführer at Auschwitz.
He was on trial during the second Auschwitz trial. Kaduk was a direct witness to the camp atrocities. He gave Jewish children a balloon before killing them with a phenol injection.
After the Germans surrendered, Kaduk worked at the Rebau sugar factory. In December 1946, he was found by a former prisoner and subsequently arrested by a Soviet military patrol. In 1947, a Soviet military court sentenced Kaduk to 25 years of hard labour, but he was released in April 1956. Kaduk then went to West Berlin to work as a nurse in a hospital. Despite his violent reputation at Auschwitz, he earned the nickname “Papa Kaduk” among his patients. Kaduk was arrested again in July 1959 and appeared at the Frankfurt-Auschwitz trial, where he was one of the main defendants. On 19 August 1965, a court sentenced him to life imprisonment for 10 counts of murder and at least 1,000 counts of conspiracy to murder. Due to the gravity of Kaduk’s deeds, the responsible Sprüchkammern rejected various pleas for amnesty. While in prison, Kaduk was interviewed on a television documentary about SS men stationed in Auschwitz. When asked about Holocaust denial, Kaduk replied: (Interviewer) Today, many people say that Auschwitz was a lie, that no one was gassed, etc. (Kaduk) I have to say, I don’t consider these people normal. We must stick to the truth. Some deny it, but what happened is what happened, and there is no dispute.” After being transferred to an open prison (Offener Vollzug) in 1984, Kaduk was released from Schwalmstadt prison in 1989 on health grounds (Haftunfähigkeit). At 90 years old, he died as a pensioner in Langelsheim, canton Harz.
A principal witness was Ludwig Woerl, who said he had been transferred from another camp to the infamous Auschwitz Arrest Bloc 11. There, one day, he testified, “a dozen little Jewish girls, aged 3 to 11, came up to me, begged me to save them from the gas chambers. They said they were strong and could work and didn’t want to die; I couldn’t help them. There was Oswald Kaduk, with gun in hand. That murderer Kaduk drove them away to the gas chamber.”
Evil beyond words.
sources
https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/oswald-kaduk
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