Hohen Schönberg, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German Empire
Died
28 May 1946(1946-05-28) (aged 31)
Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Other names
Cyclops
Butcher of Birkenau
Criminal status
Executed
Motive
Nazism Sadism
Conviction(s)
War crimes
Trial
Dachau camp trial
Criminal penalty
Death
SS career
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
1935–1945
Rank
Hauptscharführer
Otto Hermann Wilhelm Moll (4 March 1915 – 28 May 1946) was an SS non-commissioned officer who committed numerous atrocities at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. Moll held the rank of SS-Hauptscharführer "Head Section Leader", the equivalent to a US Military Master Sergeant and or British Military Warrant Officer. He was known as "Cyclops", due to having a glass eye, and as the "Butcher of Birkenau".[1]
SS Hauptscharführer Moll held the position of SS Rapportführer a senior SS position within the SS Guard Units the "Totenkopfverbände" sanctioned within the Camps.
He is said personally to have killed hundreds at Birkenau,[2] and oversaw the deaths of hundreds of thousands while at the camp, such as of the Hungarian Jews in 1944.[3] Otto Moll served as the chief of the crematorium/extermination zone at Birkenau from 1943 to 1945, a role that Moll carried out with immense cruelty.[4][5][6]
Otto Moll has been described as the "ultimate example of the cruel "Nazi spirit"",[7] while doctor Miklós Nyiszli described Moll as the "most insane murderer of the World War".[8] Moll has also been described as the "the sadistic and cruel executor of the "Final Solution," a man who was the terror of both the Jews and the SS men", and as one of the "most sadistic and evil figures in the history of Auschwitz".[9]
^Gregorc, Tamara (2020). Im Herzen der Hölle: Das Sonderkommando von Auschwitz-Birkenau und seine Wahrnehmung nach 1945 (Thesis) (in German). Universität Graz. p. 28. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
^Kadar, Gabor; Zoltan, Vagi (2004). Self-Financing Genocide: The Gold Train, the Becher Case and the Wealth of Hungarian Jews. Budapest: Central European University Press. pp. 258. ISBN 9639241539.
^Greif, Gideon; Levin, Itamar (2015). Aufstand in Auschwitz: Die Revolte des jüdischen »Sonderkommandos« am 7. Oktober 1944 [Uprising in Auschwitz: The revolt of the Jewish “Sonderkommando” on October 7, 1944] (in German). Böhlau Verlag. pp. 27–28, 347. ISBN 978-3-412-22473-8.
^"The Prisoners' Fate in Auschwitz-Birkenau". degob.org. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
^Lewy, Guenter (2017). Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers. Oxford University Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780190661137.
^Chare, Nicholas; Williams, Dominic (2019). The Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Testimonies, Histories, Representations. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 119, 124, 148–149, 184. ISBN 978-3-030-11490-9.
^Petropoulos, Jonathan; Roth, John K., eds. (2015). Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. Berghahn Books. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-84545-071-7.
^Nyiszli, Miklós (2005). Im Jenseits der Menschlichkeit. Ein Gerichtsmediziner in Auschwitz [Beyond Humanity: A Forensic Doctor in Auschwitz] (in German) (2nd ed.). Karl Dietz Verlag. p. 61. ISBN 9783320020613.
^Greif, Gideon; Levin, Itamar (2015). Aufstand in Auschwitz: Die Revolte des jüdischen »Sonderkommandos« am 7. Oktober 1944 [Uprising in Auschwitz: The revolt of the Jewish “Sonderkommando” on October 7, 1944] (in German). Böhlau Verlag. pp. 28, 211. ISBN 978-3-412-22473-8.
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