SS-Hauptscharfuhrer Gerhard Palitzsch

[Bernard]

Hi everybody,
I saw recently in a book about Auschwitz that SS-Hauptscharfuhrer Gerhard Palitzsch was one of the worst guard. I would like to learn more about him. It is not said what happened to him after 1943. Can anyone help ?
Thank you

(and sorry for my english)

[Georg]

Hi the one of the few thing I can say about Palitzsch is that he vanished after the war, and have never been put on to trial.

/Georg

[Bernard]

Is there another picture of him ?

[Peter]

Hi
I loaded the data on his death on this site some months ago, he was punished for a relationship with a Jewish woman (and also theft) and de-graded to SS Mann. He died in action in Hungary late in the war. Try the search function.
cheers
Pete

[Peter]

Hello
I investigated his fate for my next book using his BDC file (Gerhard Arno Max Palitzsch) and data from various German Archives and confirm the following:

He was degraded to SS-Schutze and placed with 9/SS-PzGrenRgt 8 of 4th SS Div "Polizei".

He was KIA 4-7.12.1944 and buried at the cross roads at Jobbabyi-Ape/Hungary.

More recently his body was moved to Budaois War Cemetery (Block 11, Row 5, Grave 282) on the highway from Vienna to Budapest.

cheers
Peter

[Bernard]

Thank you ! That was all I needed to know. Just another question. Are there other pictures/draw of him ?

[Peter]

His BDC file has 2 different photos of him earlier in his service.
Cheers
Peter

[Anja]

Sorry to ressurect such an old thread, but I have a few questions of my own about Palitzsch -- mostly related to his personal life.

Does anyone have copies of the files held at the BDC that they'd be willing to share? If not, does anyone know what his wife's name was, or how many children, if any, they had?

Thanks!

[Ilie]

If I remember well I think he had two children, and his wife was named Luise (or Louise), she died of typhus.


Ilie.