Execution of Ansgar Pichen
- German Nazi Guard in Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp - Holocaust - WW2

22 March 2022

Category: Male Nazi Guards

Ansgar Pichen was born on September 22, 1913, in Esbjerg, Denmark. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland and the World War had begun. In late May, 1940 Ansgar Pichen was conscripted into the German Army. He was sent to the Eastern Front but was wounded in November 1942. In March 1943 he was went to Blechhammer labor and prisoner of war camp which was the subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp and he stayed there until January 1945 when the camp was evacuated. On about March 11 he arrived in Bergen Belsen concentration camp where he committed his worst atrocities.

Captured by the British forces

Pichen was captured by the British forces together with other German Nazi criminals such as Franz Stofel and Johanna Bormann and was forced to help bury thousands of dead bodies which were lying across the camp into mass graves. While burying the holocaust victims, he contracted typhus and was taken into the hospital where he recovered. He was tried at the Belsen trials and convicted of atrocities which occurred during his stay in Bergen Belsen concentration camp. On November 17, 1945 a tribunal sentenced Ansgar Pichen to death by hanging. He was 32 years old when the British executioner Albert Pierrepoint carried out the sentence on 13 December, 1945.

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