Annexes:
1 copy of an autopsy protocol,
3 photos.
W.V. 28923/33
In the afternoon of 16 May 1933 the police station Dachau informed the state prosecution that an inmate of the concentration camp Dachau, the merchant Louis Schloss, from Nurnberg, widowed, born on 21 June 1880, has hanged himself in solitary confinement. At the request of the state prosecution, on the same day the legal inspection was performed with the assistance of the state court physician with the state court Munich II. As it was proven that the corpse exhibited numerous whip marks and as the cause of death appeared doubtful, an autopsy was carried out on 17 May 33. According to a preliminary certificate of the participating physicians, the autopsy did not prove death by hanging. The extensive destruction of the adipose tissue found in the corpse was considered to be adequate to cause death through autointoxication and fat embolism. We refer to the attached copy of the autopsy protocol. 3 photographic pictures of the corpse were taken before autopsy, of which prints are enclosed.
The investigation has not yet been concluded.
No. 11374
Supreme State prosecution: 22 May 33
[Signed]: Wintersberger
Submitted with 1 annex and 3 photos
to the State Ministry for Justice
Munich, 22 May 1933
The Prosecutor General of the Supreme State Court
File No. G 851, 924 ff/33 Munich, 1 June 1933
(Post office 35)
Prosecution at the State Court Munich II
(Telephone: Local 5791
Long distance: 57801)
To the prosecutor general
with the Supreme State Court
Munich.
No. 12430 with 1 extra copy.
[Stamp]
Submitted to the State Ministry for Justice
Munich, 2 June 1933
The prosecutor general with the Supreme State Court
Subject: Decease of the arrestee in protective custody Louis Schloss in the Dachau concentration camp.
To my report of 22 May 1933.