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Philipp Schmitt

Nazi concentration camp officer (1902–1950)

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Lived 1902–1950, aged 48Germany
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    1902–1950
    Aged 48
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Updated 2026-06-19

Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. For a year, he was also in charge of Mechelen transit camp but was dismissed for corruption and black marketeering. He later served in occupied Denmark and the Netherlands. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and was executed in 1950. Schmitt was the last person executed in Belgium.

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