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Fritz Dressel
Fritz Dressel (1 June 1896 – 7 May 1933) was a Communist Party activist in Bavaria, Germany.
Dressel died in the concentration camp at Dachau. His was one of the first concentration camp deaths to be widely reported after the Nazis took power in Germany, although differences of interpretation persisted over whether he had committed suicide in the concentration camp, as stated on his death certificate, or was "beaten to death", as baldly reported in an English newspaper as early as 1934.
Life
after which Dressel was left on the floor slowly bleeding to death while his guards looked on and the camp doctor was forbidden to intervene. According to another version, Dressel was set upon by guard dogs and then left bleeding to death. The guards concluded the evening with a drunken music party.
Life Report of the death.
Although the authorities were content for the death of Fritz Dressel to be reported as a suicide, the more graphic details emerged thanks to a fellow detainee called Hans Beimler. Beimler (who would later