Morgen Investigated SS Camp Corruption

German SS judge Georg Konrad Morgen investigated corruption and unauthorized murder inside Nazi concentration and extermination camps during World War II. In July 1943, Heinrich Himmler assigned him to examine SS corruption in the camps, and Morgen’s inquiries soon led to cases involving theft, brutality, and killings by camp officials. Over about two years, he investigated hundreds of SS personnel and prosecuted figures such as Buchenwald commandant Karl Otto Koch for corruption and murder outside officially authorized Nazi policy. Morgen later said he investigated more than 800 people before Himmler ordered him to stop.

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