Maximilian List

Maximilian List ( also Max List; born February 9, 1910 in Munich, † after 1980 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and SS -Hauptsturmführer.

List was detachment commander of the concentration camp Alderney on the British Channel Island of Alderney, which had occupied the Wehrmacht in June 1940. The 1,000 prisoners from the Neuengamme subcamp were taken to the so-called camp Sylt, a barracks near the airfield on March 3, 1943. In July 1943, he was forced to carry the main camp Neuengamme, as they work due to lack of nutrition and heavy physical work, he also had to represent, were no longer able to 200 of its under his camp prisoners. Since in this repatriation fled several prisoners, disciplinary proceedings were instituted against him and the leader of the SS guards Kurt Klebeck, which was discontinued in October 1943. He was further given command of another camp of the Organisation Todt, the so-called Norderney camp on the island of Alderney. In March 1944, he was replaced by the SS First Lieutenant George Brown.

Maximilian List came after the war by the British press publications in the public eye, but he was not brought to justice until his death in the 1980s. This, despite Otto Spehr, a prisoner who was on the island of Alderney, between June 1943 and June 1944, testified that List firing commands issued.