November 20, 1902 - Philipp Schmitt
As commandant of Fort Breendonk, Schmitt presided over a place that became synonymous with systematic brutality in occupied Belgium — a facility where prisoners were subjected to forced labor, torture, and execution. His tenure illustrates how the SS's machinery of terror was administered not by ideological fanatics alone, but also by figures whose conduct was compromised enough that even their own superiors eventually removed them, in his case for corruption rather than cruelty.
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Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt (20 November 1902 – 8 August 1950) was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. For a year, he was also in charge of Mechelen transit camp but was dismissed for corruption and black marketeering. He later served in occupied Denmark and the Netherlands. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and was executed in 1950. Schmitt was the last person executed in Belgium.
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