Heinz Thilo (8 October 1911 in Elberfeld – 13 May 1945 in Hohenelbe) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
After six months of war service he was assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in July 1942.
[2] He was one of the physicians commonly performing the "selections" in which incoming Jews were divided into those deemed able to work and those who were to be gassed immediately.
[3] Thilo also participated in the liquidation of the Theresienstadt family camp on July 10-11, 1944, when approximately 7000 Jews were murdered in the gas chambers.
[1] In October 1944 Thilo was transferred to Gross-Rosen where he served as camp physician until February 1945.