Genzkow Karl (Genzken)

Genzkow (Genzken) Carl (8.6.1885, Preets, Holstein -?), One of the leaders of medicine, Gruppenfuhrer SS and Lieutenant-General of the Waffen SS (30.1.1943), MD. In 1912, drafted into the Navy Medical Service. Participant 1 WWI. For military distinctions awarded the Iron Cross 1 st and 2 nd class. In 1919, discharged from the army, was engaged in private practice. In 1926 joined the NSDAP (the ticket? 39 913), 5.11.1933 - in the SS (ticket? 207 954). In 1934, newly enlisted in the Navy. 1/3/1936 transferred to the medical service of the SS. Since 1940 - in the Waffen SS. Later appointed chief physician of the hospital the SS in Berlin, and then director of the Division for the supply of medical equipment and supervision of medical personnel in the concentration camps. As an inspector of the Medical Service of the concentration camps, Genzkow provided guidance to all, without exception, the medical staff, in t.ch. Yves death camps. Without his sanction could not be made, no medical experience of prisoners of concentration camps. In May 1940 the chief of the medical unit of the SS. Since 1942 Head of the Medical Service of the SS. On 9/11/1944 Chief Management Group 'D' Main Operations Directorate SS. In the course of the American Military Tribunal in the case of doctors found guilty of an anti-human experiments, leading to the death of many prisoners. 19/7/1947 sentenced to life imprisonment. Later the sentence commuted to 20 years in prison ..