Heinz Thilo

Heinz Thilo (8 October 1911 in Elberfeld 13 May 1945 in Hohenelbe) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.

Thilo joined the Nazi party in December 1930 and the SS in 1934. From 1938 to 1941 he worked as a gynaecologist for the Lebensborn organization. After six months of war service he was assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in July 1942. There he became responsible for the infirmary camp with the rank of Obersturmführer. Thilo called the camp the "anus mundi" ("anus of the world"). Thilo also participated in the liquidation of the Theresienstadt family camp on July 10-11, 1944, when approximately 7000 Jews were murdered in the gas chambers.