Execution of Herbert Ludwig
- Bestial German Nazi Guard at Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Holocaust

3 May 2022

Category: Male Nazi Guards

Herbert Ludwig was born on October 16, 1904 in Greisbach and in 1932 he joined the Nazi Party and the SS. In 1940 Hebert Ludwig was trained to become a guard and soon after he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he committed his worst crimes.

At Auschwitz, Ludwig took active parts in selections on the rail ramp and actively participated in taking prisoners – especially children and those who were sick - to the gas chambers. While he was escorting the poor victims to the gas chambers, Ludwig was seen beating and kicking them. Herbert Ludwig stayed at Auschwitz until January 1945 when the SS evacuated around 58,000 prisoners from Auschwitz and its sub camps to concentration camps in Germany and Austria. The Nazi regime needed the prisoners as slave labor and the Nazis wanted to remove all the evidence of the horrors and brutality the poor inmates had experienced.

Led brutal death march

The forced transfers would become known as “ death marches “. Ludwig was one of the SS guards who led brutal death march from Auschwitz to Gusen concentration camp in Austria. Gusen was located only 3 miles away from Mauthausen concentration camp. After the end of the war, Herbert Ludwig was tried at Auschwitz Trial which began on November 24, 1947, and lasted one month. On December 22, 1947 the Polish Supreme National Tribunal in Krakow sentenced Herbert Ludwig to death by hanging.

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