Disappearance
It is commonly stated that he perished in the Battle for Berlin but his final fate remained long unknown. Soviet sources claimed that MI-6 caught him in Norway. In his memoirs For He Is an Englishman, Memoirs of a Prussian Nobleman, Captain Charles Arnold-Baker (born Wolfgang von Blumenthal) recorded that as an MI6 officer in Oslo, he arrested Fritsch: We picked up, for example, the deputy commandant of Auschwitz, a little runt of a man called Fritsch (sic), whom we naturally put in the custody of a Jewish guard - with strict instructions not to damage him, of course.
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