He was a
A SS sturmbannfuhrer and served at various camps and was the commandant at
Flossenburg camp as Oberführer. and was replaced by Max koegal. Zill started
career in SS as a camp guard first at a minor camp Chemnitz. Later he was
posted to Lichtenburg camp where he guarded camp along with Arthur Rodl who
later became a commandant. As a commandant, his first camp was Natzweiker
stuthoff. Zill was of short height and was known as little zilli. He was very
brutal and tied prisoners to a tree and allowed his ferocious dog to mutilate
their genitals. As commandant, he tightened discipline in the camp and opined that those
prisoners who were indoctrinated by Nazi philosophy should be allowed to fight
for Germany and such persons should be made free persons. However , he was found
to be ineffective commandant and shifted to eastern battle front.Local villages
too complained about the lavish life style of his camp guards and their wives while
they were struggling in poverty. This complaint was made to the top brass controlling the concentration camps and Zill was replaced. After war, Zill vanished. But was caught when he wrote
his real name in the birth certificate of his illegitimate child. He was tried in a Munich court and was sentenced to life. But in 1955, it was reduced to 15 years. After release, he lived quietly in Germany and died in 1974.
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