Ernst Günther Schenck

German SS surgeon; Inspector for troop food supply in OKH and SS; Police Food Inspector (Nazi Germany)

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Lived 1904–1998, aged 94Germany

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1904–1998
Aged 94

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Updated 2026-06-20

Ernst-Günther Schenck was a German medical doctor and member of the SS in Nazi Germany. Because of a chance encounter with Adolf Hitler during the closing days of World War II, his memoirs proved historically valuable. His accounts of this period are prominent in the works of Joachim Fest and James P. O'Donnell regarding the end of Hitler's life, and were included in the film Downfall (2004). Schenck was not allowed to continue his medical career in post-war Germany.