Anton Malloth Anton Malloth ( February 13 , 1912 – October 31 , 2002 ) was a supervisor in the " Kleine Festung " ( Small Fortress ) part of the Theresienstadt concentration camp . From June 1940 to May 1945 , Malloth worked as a supervisor in the Gestapo prison " Kleine Festung Theresienstadt " , which was part of the larger Theresienstadt concentration camp . His nickname was " der schöne Toni " ( The handsome Toni ) . He was convicted of beating at least 100 prisoners to death and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 , after escaping justice for 55 years . Life . Malloth grew up in the town of Schenna , near Merano , in the Italian province of South Tyrol . His foster - parents ran a small agricultural business and guest - house . He did an apprenticeship as a butcher and later became a lance corporal in the Italian army , where he opted to serve in Germany . In Innsbruck he received training as a " Schutzpolizei " ( a uniformed branch of the 3rd Reich police force ) and later volunteered for police service in Prague . For most of the Second World War , Malloth worked in Theresienstadt . Life in Austria . After the end of war , Malloth went on the run for some time , living at his parents - in - laws ' home in Wörgl , Tyrol . In early 1948 , Malloth was arrested by the Austrian police . In the interrogation in front of a judge in Innsbruck , he played down his role in the Gestapo prison and denied having been involved with torture and murder . An application for extradition by the Czechoslovak government was ignored by the Austrian justice department . Malloth was tried " in absentia " in September 1948 in Czechoslovakia for war crimes in Terezín / Theresienstadt , but by then Malloth had already been released by the Austrian court . After numerous witness testimonials , the Czechoslovak court in Litoměřice town ruled that there was no doubt that Malloth had beaten to death about 100 detainees . The verdict was reversed in 1969 , but the application for extradition was still pending . From 1948 to 1988 Malloth lived undisturbed in Meran . In 1952 he became an Italian citizen . When his Italian citizenship was stripped , he became a German citizen in 1957 . In spite of several applications for extradition by Germany and Austria , the German consulate in Milan issued him new passports as the previous ones expired . When he was expelled to Germany in 1988 , the public prosecution department of Dortmund denied any extradition to Austria or Czechoslovakia . As there were no preliminary proceedings against Malloth , he was freed . Life in Germany . From 1988 to 2000 , Malloth lived in Pullach near Munich . Gudrun Burwitz , the daughter of Heinrich Himmler , was instructed by the " Stille Hilfe " to rent a comfortable room for him in a home for the aged , which was built on a lot formerly owned by Rudolf Hess . When it became public in the late nineties that the social welfare office had paid most of the expenses of Malloth ' s room , there was much criticism in the German media . The involvement of Himmler ' s daughter Gudrun Burwitz was also criticized . Arrest and trial . Malloth was taken into custody on May 25 , 2000 and charged by the public prosecution department in Munich . The trial started on April 23 , 2001 in the prison in Munich - Stadelheim . On May 30 , 2001 Malloth was convicted by the district court of Munich for murder and attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . Ten days before his death , cancer - suffering Malloth was declared unfit for prison and released .