Perry Broad, also Pery Broad (April 25, 1921 - November 28, 1993) was a Brazilian Non-commissioned officer

Non-commissioned officer

A non-commissioned officer , called a sub-officer in some countries, is a military officer who has not been given a commission...

 SS-Unterscharführer, active at Auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration camp

Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

 from April 1942 - 1945 as a translator and stenographer at the Auschwitz headquarters.

Early Life & World War II

Perry Broad, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1921, came to Berlin with his mother at the age of five. He studied at the Technical High School in Berlin and joined the "Waffen SS" in 1941 as a foreigner. Detached on duty to Auschwitz, he asked for transposition to the "Politische Abteilung" where he conducted interrogations. He remained in Auschwitz till the dissolution of the camp in early 1945 and was captured by British armed forces. Being P.O.W., he voluntarily wrote a report about his experiences in Auschwitz.

Post War

Released in 1947, he again was arrested 12 years later, freed in December 1960 after the payment of 50.000 DM as surety and again arrested in November 1964 as defendant in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

Frankfurt Auschwitz trials

The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, known in German as der Auschwitz-Prozess or der zweite Auschwitz-Prozess, was a series of trials running from December 20, 1963 to August 10, 1965, charging 22 defendants under German penal law for their roles in the Holocaust as mid- to lower-level officials in the...

. There his supervision during the selections on the Birkenau ramp was proven against him, also he had participated in interrogations, tortures and executions. Thus, he was condemned to four years in 1965.