Georg Bachmayer Signed Document - Dachau

Georg Bachmayer Signed Document - Dachau
Letter from Georg Bachmayer from Dachau dated 13.12.38 , theletter reads :Bachmayer Georg Dachau 3/o. den 13.12.1938SS-U.Stuff. SS-Nr. 69535V.B.Nr. 66 534To theHealth Department DachauSubject: Submission of my health papers.I asked the Race and Settlement Office in Berlin to send my health papershere as soon as possible, as I plan to be married on January 3, 1939.Heil Hitler Bachmayer Georg.Georg Bachmayer (August 12, 1913 – May 8, 1945) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer(captain) and member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände who served as theSchutzhaftlagerführer, with responsibility for prisoners while they wereinside the Mauthausen concentration camp, he also oversaw granite productionin the quarry. In this position he also inspected the satellite camps andsupervised the construction of the Ebensee camp. He was considered a brutalsadist."Bachmayer was clearly a sadist. His speciality was to set two mastiff-likebloodhounds (one in 1944 "Lord") on inmates, which would literally tear themto death. This was known in camp jargon as ‘dying from the dog’s kiss’. Thereal cause of death from a medical point of view was usually general sepsis, if the inmate didn’t die immediately of heart failure. Of the thousands ofinmates that Bachmayer himself killed or tortured, just two cases arementioned here. One day the evening roll call in block 20 didn’t tally andone inmate was missing. In block 20 the unfortunate victims of Action K werehoused under special security measures where they were left to die ofhunger. When the missing inmate was noticed, all the other inmates in theentire camp were first required to fall in and remain standing in the rollcall area. At the same time a search was initiated and the missing inmatewas ultimately found in one of the normal inmate blocks where he had hiddenin the hope of avoiding starvation. When Bachmayer received the report thatthe inmate had been found, he was standing by chance next to theundersigned. He began to tremble with gleeful excitement and said half tohimself ‘I’ll batter this one to death myself’, which he then proceeded todo." Gerhard Kanthack, former German government official and politicalprisoner at MauthausenSeveral examples of Bachmayer's brutality are described by Vasily Bunelikand General Officer Georges Loustaunau-Lacau:"The most appalling scene is in February 1945: massacre with an axe of threehundred deportees driven back from another camp. The most revolting methodsof destruction employed by Commander S. S. Bachmayer and his deputiescompleted the natural work of hunger and cold."Bachmayer committed suicide nearby Prihetsberg (Austria) on May 8, 1945,after shooting his wife and two children.This Typed letter measures 210mm x 115mm