Wilhelm Schäfer was an SS-Hauptscharführer who was complicit in numerous war crimes, including the executions of hundreds of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp. He was exposed as a war criminal, put on trial, and executed after he was recognized by a survivor of Buchenwald.
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany, German Reich
- Born
- October 20, 1911, 1911
- Died
- June 16, 1961
