The commandant (German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the...
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system of satellite camps. Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand...
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Josef Kramer (redirect from Joseph Kramer (camp Commandant Bergen-Belsen))
named Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in April 1941. Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on...
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Richard Baer (redirect from Richard Baer (Nazi))
the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 1945, commandant of Mittelbau-Dora...
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1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he...
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Martin Gottfried Weiss (redirect from Martin Weiss (Nazi))
commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of...
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Karl-Otto Koch (category Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants)
commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From...
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Mittelbau Warsaw Hinzert From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps...
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Fritz Suhren (category Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants)
Suhren (10 June 1908 – 12 June 1950) was a Nazi German SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant. In 1950 he was tried for his role in The Holocaust...
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Hans Hüttig (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
1894 – 23 February 1980) was a German SS functionary and Nazi concentration camp commandant. Hans Hüttig was born on 5 April 1894. The son of a carpenter...
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Płaszów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpwaʂuf]) or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in...
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overseer') was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Female camp personnel were members of the SS-Gefolge auxiliary organization...
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Alexander Piorkowski (category Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants)
October 1948) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and commandant of Dachau concentration camp. Following the war, he was convicted and executed...
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Paul-Werner Hoppe (redirect from Werner Hoppe (Nazi))
(lieutenant colonel) and was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1942 until April 1945. Hoppe joined the Nazi Party with membership number...
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Arnold Büscher (category Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants)
at many Nazi concentration camps, including Flossenbürg, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme. Büscher succeeded Amon Göth as the commandant of the...
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Theodor Eicke (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
Nazi Germany. He was a key figure in the development of Nazi concentration camps. Eicke served as the second commandant of the Dachau concentration camp...
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59944°E / 51.22056; 22.59944 Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city...
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Karl Chmielewski (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
(16 July 1903 – 1 December 1991) was a German SS officer and concentration camp commandant. Such was his cruelty, he was dubbed Teufel von Gusen or the...
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Hermann Florstedt (category Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants)
1945) was a German SS official who served as the third commandant of Majdanek concentration camp from November 1942 to October 1943. Florstedt was a veteran...
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Franz Ziereis (category Nazi concentration camp commandants who died in prison custody)
(13 August 1905 – 24 May 1945) was the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1939 until the camp was liberated by the American forces in...
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Hans Helwig (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
German Nazi Party politician, World War I veteran, Schutzstaffel general and Nazi concentration camp commandant. An early member of the Nazi movement...
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Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village...
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Eduard Roschmann (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
Roschmann (25 November 1908 – 8 August 1977) was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous...
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1933–1943. An SA-Gruppenfuhrer. Amon Göth – SS-Hauptsturmführer. Nazi concentration camp commandant at Płaszów, General Government, German-occupied Poland. Ulrich...
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Günther Tamaschke (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
14 October 1959) was a Nazi German SS-Standartenführer and commandant of the Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps. He was never tried for...
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Karl Künstler (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
April 1945) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp. Künstler, whose father was a barber, worked at a post...
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Wilhelm Gideon (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
1977[citation needed]) was a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant. A native of Oldenburg, Gideon began work as a trainee engineer...
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Otto Förschner (category Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants)
1902 – 28 May 1946) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi concentration camp commander. After serving with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front...
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Hermann Pister (category Nazi concentration camp commandants who died in prison custody)
September 1948) was an SS-Oberführer (senior colonel) and commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp from 21 January 1942 until April 1945.[citation needed]...
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computer video games that put the player in the role of a Nazi concentration camp commandant or "manager", where the "resources" to be managed include...
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