He remained at the camp with commandant Josef Kramer and assisted in handing it over to British troops. In December 1944 he was transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp, from where he was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in January 1945. He also participated in numerous selections (“ Selektionen“) on the ramp. Subsequently he worked as a camp doctor in the Gypsy camp. On 15 December 1943, he arrived in Auschwitz concentration camp, where at first he served as a camp doctor in the women’s camp in Birkenau. Hence Klein became a soldier in the Waffen-SS, was listed in the SS-Personalhauptamt, and was posted to Yugoslavia. In May 1943 Romanian dictator Marshal Antonescu, on a demand from Hitler to release ethnic Germans in the Romanian Army, drafted them into the German army. In 1939 as a Romanian citizen he was drafted into the Romanian army, where after the outbreak of the war with the Soviet Union in 1941 he served as paramedic on the eastern front. He lived as a doctor in Siebenbürgen ( Transylvania). He studied medicine at the University of Budapest and completed his military service in Romania, finishing his studies in Budapest after World War I. Klein was considered a Volksdeutscher, or ethnic German. Klein was born in Feketehalom, Austria-Hungary (now Codlea in central Romania).
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