Stefan Baretzki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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SS guard at Auschwitz of Romanian Volksdeutsche origin
Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1919
Place of Birth: Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 21-Jun-1988
Profession: military officer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Stefan Baretzki
- Stefan Baretzki ((1919-03-24)24 March 1919 – (1988-06-21)21 June 1988) was an Auschwitz guard of Bukovina German origin.
- He was conscripted into the Waffen-SS and stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 until 1945.
- There he participated in mass murder by making selections and beat and murdered prisoners on his own initiative.
- After the war, Baretzki settled in West Germany.
- He was the lowest-ranking of the twenty-four defendants in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
- His murders were sensationalized in the German press.
- The court sentenced him to life imprisonment and eight years for participating in the murder of more than 8,000 people.
- Baretzki regretted his actions, testified against his former superiors, and committed suicide in prison.
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