Karl Genzken

German physician and SS general, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, and convicted war criminal 81885-1957)

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Lived 1885–1957, aged 72Germany

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1885–1957
Aged 72

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Updated 2026-06-09

Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS. After the war ended, he was tried and convicted as a war criminal and for crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg. Genzken was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 20 years and he was released in 1954.