His foremost duty was to remove and collect silver and gold teeth and fillings and tooth bridges to send on to Walther Funk, the President of the Reichsbank.

After a medical officer had confirmed death and before any unauthorised removals could occur, Hellinger searched the mouths of the dead for gold.

[2] He was present at the executions of three British SOE agents: Lilian Rolfe, Denise Bloch and Violette Szabo.

[9] Sixteen members of the staff at Ravensbrück were tried by a mixed inter-allied court in the British zone between 5 December 1946 and 3 February 1947.

[5] In a pre-trial statement, Hellinger acknowledged that his duty was to remove gold teeth from dead bodies.

In addition, he would extract gold teeth from "just-executed prisoners", having waited for them in the crematorium prior to the mass cremations.

Further removal of restrictions occurred with the "Treaty of Transferral" between Germany and the United States, the UK and France on 5 May 1955.