Erich Zoddel
Erich Zoddel (9 August 1913 – 30 November 1945) was a prisoner functionary at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In 1941, Zoddel was sentenced to a year in prison for theft before being transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1942. He worked as a forced laborer in the Heinkel factory in Oranienburg until October 1943. In November 1943, after a brief stay at Buchenwald concentration camp, he was taken to Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. On 27 March 1944, Zoddel and 1,000 other prisoners from Mittelbau-Dora arrived at Bergen-Belsen. By January 1945, Zoddel had risen in the ranks to a camp division. Two days after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British army on 15 April 1945, Zoddel killed a female detainee, a crime for which he was sentenced to death by a British military court in Celle on 31 August 1945. On 17 November 1945, Zoddel was sentenced to life imprisonment in a second trial for his actions at Bergen-Belsen. His execution was carried out later that month in Wolfenbüttel by guillotine.
Bibliography[]
- United Nations War Crimes Commission (Hrsg.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. 3 Bände, William S. Hein Publishing, Buffalo (New York) 1997, ISBN 1-57588-403-8 (Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1947 bis 1949)
- Arne Moi: Das Lager – ein Norweger in Bergen-Belsen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-35133-X
External links[]
- Mazal: Erster Bergen-Belsen-Prozess: Protokolle at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 October 2013)
- 1913 births
- 1945 deaths
- Sachsenhausen concentration camp personnel
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp personnel
- Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp personnel
- Executed Nazi concentration camp personnel
- People executed by the British military by decapitation
- Executed German people
- German prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
- People executed for murder
- Nazis executed by guillotine
- People convicted of theft