November 9, 1900 - Emil Mahl
A prisoner forced into the camp system who nonetheless became one of its most feared instruments, Mahl exercised his role in Dachau's crematorium with a brutality that earned him a postwar nickname and a death sentence — later reduced — from Allied tribunals. His case sits within the broader history of Kapos, prisoner-functionaries whose collaboration with SS administration placed them in a legally and morally contested category that courts struggled to address consistently.
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Emil Erwin Mahl (born 9 November 1899 in Karlsruhe; died 1 April 1967 in Heidelberg) was a Kapo (prisoner functionary) in the crematorium of the Nazi Dachau concentration camp. Known as "the Hangman of Dachau", he was sentenced to death after the war, but this was commuted to a 10-year prison sentence.
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