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    22056°N 22.59944°E / 51.22056; 22.59944 Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts...
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    The case of the Majdanek death camp The Majdanek trials were a series of consecutive war-crime trials held in Poland and in Germany during and after World...
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    Kaiserwald [de] Kauen concentration camp List of subcamps of Kauen Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp List of subcamps of Kraków-Płaszów Majdanek concentration...
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    Erntefest) was the murder of up to 43,000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police battalions, and the Ukrainian...
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    Martin Gottfried Weiss (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Weiss was born in Weiden in...
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  • Hermann Florstedt (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    and convicted war profiteer. He became the third commander of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. Florstedt was convicted of corruption and sentenced...
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  • Alice Orlowski (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    concentration camp in Germany in 1941. In October 1942, she was selected as one of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Aufseherin to be posted at the Majdanek camp near Lublin...
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    labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps. Millions were also murdered in concentration camps, in the Aktion T4, or directly on site...
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    extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Most prisoners were gassed on arrival. A former World War I camp for...
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    and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a shortage of male guards. In the context of these camps, the...
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    Hermine Braunsteiner (category People convicted in the Majdanek trials)
    1999) was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited...
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  • Karl-Otto Koch (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in...
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    Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen Gross-Rosen Mittelbau...
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    Jasenovac (pronounced [jasěnoʋat͡s]) was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent...
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    Hermann Hackmann (category People convicted in the Majdanek trials)
    extermination camps during World War II. He was a roll call officer at KL Buchenwald, and lead guard in charge of the so-called protective custody at Majdanek concentration...
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    prisoners who were worn out by forced labor were sent to death camps such as Majdanek and Auschwitz. One transport from Flossenbürg to Auschwitz arrived...
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    the camp grounds were removed. In 2004, Bełżec became a new branch of the Majdanek State Museum. New official monuments commemorating the camp's victims...
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    Anton Thumann (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    Gross-Rosen camp, under Commander Arthur Rödl. From mid-February 1943 to March 1944 he began service as Protective Custody Camp Leader at the Majdanek concentration...
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    including Majdanek, were put in place. The Germans established an elaborate hierarchy of power and order in the camp, which relied on violence from the camp commander...
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    In July 1942, Daniel Dionys Lenard escaped from Majdanek concentration camp. He was interviewed by the Bratislava Working Group and brought the first...
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    construction. Alongside the Reinhard camps, mass-murder facilities using Zyklon B were developed at the Majdanek concentration camp in March 1942, and at Auschwitz...
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    Erich Muhsfeldt (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    an SS NCO in three extermination camps during World War II in German occupied Poland and Germany: Auschwitz, Majdanek and Flossenbürg. After the war, he...
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    Gertrud Heise (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    of several women, including Hermine Braunsteiner, to be sent to KZ Majdanek camp near Lublin as an Aufseherin. The gas chambers began operation there...
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    for Aktion Reinhard, as well as the original Chełmno extermination camp, and Majdanek which was fitted with mass killing facilities, along with Auschwitz...
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  • John Demjanjuk (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global...
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    including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and Treblinka I. However, these camps were distinct from the adjoining extermination camps. At the beginning of the...
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    the Majdanek concentration camp in May 1944. In late July that year, due to the Red Army approaching Warsaw, the Nazis started to evacuate the camp. Around...
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  • Otto Hantke (category Nazi concentration camp commandants)
    labor camp and Poniatowa concentration camp, both subcamps of the Majdanek concentration camp, and was an SS officer at the Lipowa 7 concentration camp and...
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    000 who were very ill or dying were sent to Lublin-Majdanek and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Few of them survived. At the end of 1943, the Dora...
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    transferred almost immediately to slave-labour projects including Majdanek and the Lublin airfield camp, where materials looted from the gassed victims were prepared...
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