Vinzenz Schöttl (30 June 1905 in Appersdorf – 28 May 1946 in

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) was a German

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(SS) officer and high-ranking functionary in the

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. Schöttl initially joined the

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in November 1928 before renewing his membership in February 1931, having joined the SS in January 1931. His highest SS rank was Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS Reserve, a position he gained in 1942.Ernst Klee, ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945'', Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, p. 556 In 1933, he was a member of the guards at

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. In the summer of 1937, he became the National Director of the Lindenhofs der Herzogsägmühle, a facility for travellers. From 1940 he worked for a short time in the ghetto of

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from where he was transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp, and soon afterwards to

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. From July 1942 until its evacuation in January 1945 Schöttl was Director of

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, otherwise known as

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III. From 3 February 1945 he served under

Otto Förschner Otto Förschner (4 November 1902 – 28 May 1946) was a German Schutzstaffel, SS commander and a Nazi concentration camp official. He served as commandant of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and the Kaufering concentration camp in the Dachau ...

as deputy commander of

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, a subsidiary network of the larger Dachau camp, remaining in that role until the camp's evacuation in late April of the same year. Schöttl was captured by the

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and on 15 November was indicted for war crimes as part of the Dachau Trials. Reports of his mistreatment of prisoners, as well as the shooting of another prisoner, were taken into account and, on 13 December 1945, he was one of 36 defendants sentenced to death by hanging.Holger Lessing, ''Der erste Dachauer Prozess (1945/46)'', Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1993, p. 323 His execution was carried out in

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on 28 May 1946.

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