Otto Moll was born on 4 March 1915 in the town of Hohen Schönberg, then part of the German Empire. When on 30 January 1933 President von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany, Otto Moll was 17 years old. He trained as a gardener and on 30 May 1935, he joined the SS/
Otto Moll was musically active and became a member of the SS marching battalion orchestra which performed in SS barracks or in public places.
From 1938, Otto Moll was employed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he worked as the head of a gardeners' work detail and was protected by Rudolf Höss who belonged to the camp’s leadership
The Second World War started on the 1st of September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The last operational Polish unit surrendered on the 6th of October the same year and in May 1940, around 60 km west of Krakow, the Germans established Auschwitz concentration camp.
On the 2nd of May 1941, the camp’s commandant Rudolf Höss brought Otto Moll to Auschwitz who lived in the camp with his wife and two daughters. His first wife Elli had also worked in the concentration camp but died of blood poisoning in 1940. Moll remarried only a few weeks after her death.Many former Auschwitz prisoners described Otto Moll as the worst SS-man in the entire camp. He distinguished himself with the particular sadism towards the prisoners and because he had a glass eye, he had a nickname “Cyclops “. A former Auschwitz prisoner Benjamin Jacobs later recalled: “"His straight blond hair was cut short. In his chiselled face were set a pair of cold blue eyes. Only one of them was real. When he spoke, only the live eye shifted. There seemed to be no real feeling in the heart beating beneath his bulging chest." At Auschwitz, Moll first supervised agricultural commando.
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