Paul Radomski
Paul Otto von Radomski (21 September 1902 – 14 March 1945) was an
SS career
Radomski was an "
Syrets concentration camp
After serving in Stettin, Radomski was appointed commander of the
Haidari concentration camp
In the autumn of 1943, Radomski was appointed commandant of
Under Radomski, the camp inmates were put to labour in two four-hour shifts each day except Sundays. The inmates were divided into groups of 100 men, with a
An account by an eye witness, Constantine Vatikiotis, who was arrested on 26 October 1943, describes Radomski personally executing a Jewish prisoner called Levy, in front of the other prisoners, "for attempting to escape on the day of his arrest". This execution was to serve not only as a warning to the others, but, according to post-war psychological research, to "put the inmates in constant fear of their lives".[1][6] Vatikiotis estimated that in the few months he was at Haidari some 2,000 people were executed.[1] Another 300 died as a result of torture either at Haidari or in the Gestapo headquarters at Merlin street in central Athens. These numbers included 30 women, 104 invalids, and 230 students.[6]
On 17 February 1943, after a drunken birthday party, Radomski threatened to shoot his own adjutant for losing his room keys. As a result of this action he was brought before an SS tribunal, demoted, and sentenced to six months in prison. Radomski was later sent to serve in Riga. He was replaced at Haidari by Lieutenant Karl Fischer.[1]
After the war, track of Radomski was lost until 2005, when the Hamburg prosecutor announced that the Ukrainian authorities, investigating crimes in the concentration camp Syrets, had reported that Radomski had died on 14 March 1945 in the vicinity of Székesfehérvár in Hungary.[7][8]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-300-08923-6.
- Frankfurt am Main1986, p. 548.
- ^ "The KZ in Syrets".
- ^ Aristov, Stanislav (2015). "Next to Babi Yar: The Syrets Concentration Camp and the Evolution of Nazi Terror in Kiev". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 29 (3): 431–459 – via Oxford Academic.
- ^ (in Greek) Haidari Municipality: Haidari as an SS camp - Major Paul von Radomski Archived 2008-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b (in Greek) Haidari Municipality: The first execution at Haidari Archived 2008-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Paul Otto Radomski". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
- ^ Wolodymyr Prystajko: Tschi buw „mattsch smerti“? Dokumenty swidtschat. Kyiv 2006, p. 101.