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An original letter by SS (Schutzstaffel) Hauptsturmführer Doctor Heinz Baumkötter sent to his wife during 9th September 1942 and 21st November 1943 in WW2.
Baumkötter was a medical doctor in Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof and Sachsenhausen, and conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates. Baumkötter was tried in the Sachsenhausen trials by a Soviet military tribunal in 1947, in a trial held in the former city hall in Berlin-Pankow.
Baumkötter was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 25 years of hard labor, which he served in the coal mines of the Vorkuta Gulag. He was released early in 1956 when the Soviet Union freed the remaining German POWs. Shortly after, in July of the same year, he was re-arrested by West German authorities. On 19 February, a court sentenced him to eight years in prison but deemed his time in the Gulag as sufficient punishment, leading to his release.
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