• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Mittelbau Warsaw Hinzert From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed...
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    Hans Loritz (category Nazi concentration camp commandants who died by suicide in prison custody)
    officer in the Schutzstaffel (SS) who was the commandant of several concentration camps in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. He committed suicide in captivity...
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    Max Koegel (category Nazi concentration camp commandants who died by suicide in prison custody)
    27 June 1946) was a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested...
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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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    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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  • Hilmar Wäckerle (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
    commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was the first commandant of Dachau concentration camp. The son of a Munich notary public...
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  • Nikolaus Herbet (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
    unknown) was a German SS officer and the second and last commandant of Warsaw concentration camp, during the period from September 1943 to July 1944. He...
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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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