Wilhelm Simon

Wilhelm Simon
Wilhelm Simon
	Simon in U.S. custody (1947)
Nickname(s)	"Simon Legree"
Born	23 April 1900; Wuppertal, German Empire
Died	27 September 1971 (aged 71); Bochum, West Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Rank	SS-Hauptscharführer
Unit	SS-Totenkopfverbände
Battles/wars	World War II

Wilhelm Simon (23 April 1900 – 27 September 1971) was a

war crimes by the United States

in 1947.

Biography

Wilhelm Simon was born in the city of

Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Wuppertal.^[1]

In January 1941 Simon was placed on active duty by the SS and assigned to the SS-Totenkopfverbände. He was subsequently posted to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a member of its guard battalion. Simon rose in the camp administration and was promoted to the position of Assistant Labor Allocation Manager for Buchenwald in the summer of 1942. In this capacity, Simon both organized and directly supervised the provision of camp inmates as slave-laborers for various industries vital to the German war economy.^[2]

Mittelbau-Dora

In December 1943 Simon was appointed

prisoner laborers with special privileges and also accompanied the eminent German rocket-scientist Wernher von Braun on a trip to Buchenwald to select prisoners there for work at Dora.^[3]

During his service as Labor Leader at

exhaustion among the already badly-ailing Jews. Afterward, Simon ordered the SS to bludgeon to death several children from the same transport before dispatching the survivors into the tunnels at Mittelwerk.^[5]

Mittelbau-Dora was evacuated shortly before the arrival of American troops in April 1945. During the evacuation, Simon led a transport of 350 prisoners to the

war crimes on 30 December 1947 and sentenced to life imprisonment and interned in Landsberg Prison

.

Simon was released from prison in 1954. He returned to his native

salesman. He died in obscurity in Bochum, West Germany on 27 September 1971.^[7]

References

^ Ernst Klee: The Encyclopedia of persons to the Third Reich Who was that before and after 1945, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 584th
^ Sellier, Andre. A History of the Dora Camp. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.2003
^ Der Mond über Peenemünde – Wernher von Braun und der Geist der Barbarei
^ Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1991. pg. 72
^ Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1991. pg. 72
^ (pdf-datei)# The accused at the Dachau Trial
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945., Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 584

[1] Ernst Klee: The Encyclopedia of persons to the Third Reich Who was that before and after 1945, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 584th

[2] Sellier, Andre. A History of the Dora Camp. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.2003

[3] Der Mond über Peenemünde – Wernher von Braun und der Geist der Barbarei

[4] Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1991. pg. 72

[5] Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1991. pg. 72

[6] (pdf-datei)# The accused at the Dachau Trial

[7] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945., Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 584

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