"Guard Battalion", or Wachbattalion. These guards manned watchtowers and patrolled the perimeter fences of the camp. During an emergency, such as a prisoner uprising, the Guard Battalion could be deployed within the camp. The Guard battalion was organized on military lines with a Battalion Commander, Company and Platoon Leaders, as well as non-commissioned officers and enlisted SS soldiers. Camp guards were either members of the SS-TV or Waffen-SS veterans rotated into the concentration camp system due to wounds in action or for some other administrative reason. Ironically, contrary to the stereotypical image of the "Concentration Camp Guard", members of the Guard Battalion seldom, if ever, had direct contact with prisoners. Exceptions occurred due to prisoner escapes or uprisings, of which the 1944 Crematorium Revolt (depicted in the film The Grey Zone where the Guard Battalion enters and machine guns a crematorium) is one such example. On June 17, 2016, one of the last of the Auschwitz Guards, Reinhold Hanning (age 94) was convicted as an accessory to murder and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment. Battalion Commanders SS-Sturmbannführer Max Gebhardt SS-Sturmbannführer Arthur Plorin Guard Company Commanders SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Stoppel Guard Platoon Leaders SS-Obersturmführer Josef Kollmer Guard Battalion NCOs SS-Hauptscharführer Adolf Becker SS-Hauptscharführer Matthias Tannhausen SS-Oberscharführer Emanuel Glumbik SS-Oberscharführer Vinzent Klose SS-Unterscharführer Otto Wolnek Guard Battalion Sentries SS-Unterscharführer Reinhold Hanning SS-Rottenführer Erich Dinges The "rank and file" of the Guard Battalion consisted primarily of junior SS soldiers holding the rank of Schütze, Oberschütze, and Sturmmann. Auschwitz Dog Squad SS-Obersturmführer Hans Merbach (Dog Squad Commander) Camp medical personnel Auschwitz maintained its own medical corps, led by Eduard Wirths, whose doctors and medical personnel were from various backgrounds in the SS. The infamous Josef Mengele, for example, was a combat field doctor in the Waffen-SS before transferring to Auschwitz after being wounded in combat. Office of the Garrison Physician SS-Sturmbannführer Eduard Wirths SS-Obersturmführer Franz von Bodmann Medical administration section SS-Sturmbannführer Eduard Krebsbach (temporary assignment – served less than 2 months) Medical staff officers SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele SS-Hauptsturmführer Alfred Trzebinski SS-Obersturmführer Franz Lucas SS-Untersturmführer Hans Wilhelm König Civilian medical personnel Carl Clauberg (civilian physician) SS-Untersturmführer Walter Goebel (assistant to Clauberg) Medical service staff SS-Oberscharführer Josef Klehr (senior medical staff NCO) SS-Unterscharführer Adolf Theuer (sanitary orderly) Office of the Garrison Dentist SS-Sturmbannführer Raimond Ehrenberger Staff Dentists SS-Obersturmführer Willi Schatz Dental service staff SS-Untersturmführer Josef Simon (dental technician) Camp Pharmacists SS-Sturmbannführer Victor Capesius Pharmacy staff SS-Obersturmführer Gerhard