1. Josef Klehr was an SS-Oberscharfuhrer, supervisor in several Nazi concentration camps and head of the SS disinfection commando at Auschwitz concentration camp.
12 Facts About Josef Klehr
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Josef Klehr participated in military exercises with the Wehrmacht and received training to become a medic.
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Josef Klehr was renowned for killing by phenol injections into the heart, something he essentially took over at some point in 1942.
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Josef Klehr devised ways to optimise the speed of the killing process, such as experimenting with the positioning of prisoners before their injection.
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Some were here only because Josef Klehr did not like them and put them down in the "needle list", there was no way out.
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Josef Klehr used to murder with his needle with great zeal, mad eyes and sadistic smile, he put a stroke on the wall after the killing of each victim.
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In 1943 Josef Klehr became head of the disinfection squad.
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Josef Klehr was one of those responsible for inserting the gas.
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On 20 April 1943 Josef Klehr was awarded the War Merit Cross second class with swords.
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Josef Klehr was transferred to the Gleiwitz subcamp in 1944 where he was head of the prisoners' hospital and was medically responsible for Glewitz camps I to IV.
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Josef Klehr returned to his family in Braunschweig and resumed work as a cabinet maker.
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On 25 January 1988, Josef Klehr's sentence was suspended due to unfitness for custody.