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{{r|Friedrich Entress}} | {{r|Friedrich Entress}} | ||
{{r|Erwin von Halmerson}} | {{r|Erwin von Halmerson}} | ||
{{r|Bruno Kitt}} | {{r|Bruno Kitt}} | ||
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{{r|Edmund Konig}} | {{r|Edmund Konig}} | ||
{{r|Josef Mengele}} | {{r|Josef Mengele}} | ||
{{r|Heinz Thilo}} | {{r|Heinz Thilo}} | ||
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{{r|Auschwitz agricultural department}} Responsible for the development of farming and stockbreeding and also with research into experimental plant stations; managed by SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Joachim Caesar | {{r|Auschwitz agricultural department}} Responsible for the development of farming and stockbreeding and also with research into experimental plant stations; managed by SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Joachim Caesar | ||
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Parent topics
- Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies [e]
- SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Higher SS and Police Leader [r]: Add brief definition or description
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps [e]
- Richard Gluecks [r]: SS-Gruppenfuehrer; Inspector of Concentration Camps (1939-1945); believed to have committed suicide at war's end [e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps [e]
Subtopics
Subcamps and commandants
- Auschwitz main concentration camp [r]: Variously refers to the original camp, the overall direction of the three subcamps (Main or I, Auschwitz-II or Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, and Auschwitz-III or [[Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp}} [e]
- Rudolf Hoess [r]: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 [e]
- Arthur Liebehenschel [r]: SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Second commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (11 November 1943-8 May 1944) [e]
- Richard Baer [r]: SS-Sturmbannfueher; Third commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (8 May 1944-January 1945) [e]
- Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Direct camp supervision
- Lagerfuhrer [r]: In a Nazi concentration camp, was the deputy to the Commandant and directly responsible operation of the camp proper, making administrative reports on the camp complement and controlling internal order, recommending punishments and supervising punishments and executions; assisted by camp marshals (Rapportfuhrer) and their subordinate Blockfuhrer and, for women, Aufseherinnen [e]
- Karl Fritzsch [r]: SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; first Lagerfuhrer ofAuschwitz Concentration Camp, from its creation until the end of 1941; conducted the initial mass executions of Soviet prisoners of war and the first executions using Zyklon B, which he first proposed; later transferred to Flossenburg Concentration Camp, convicted of corruption and murder, and transferred to a front-line SS combat unit [e]
- Hans Aumeier [r]: (1906-1947) SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; second Lagerfuhrer of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, from December 1941 to August 1943; later commanded Vaivara concentration camp and the Grini camp in Norway; Poland tried and executed him in 1947 [e]
- Heinrich Schwarz [r]: (1906-1947) SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; third Lagerfuhrer of combined Auschwitz Concentration Camp ( August 1943-November 1943) then commanded Auschwitz-Monowitz; commanded Natzweiler in 1945; executed by France for war crimes in 1947 [e]
- Franz Johann Hofmann [r]: SS-Obersturmfuhrer; fourth Lagerfuhrer of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, November 1943-June 1944 [e]
- Franz Hössler [r]: SS-Obersturmfuhrer; fifth and final Lagerfuhrer of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, June 1944-January 1945 [e]
Political section
- RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD [e]
Medical
Garrison doctor/chief medical officer
- SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Dr. Max Popiersch until September 1941
- SS- Haupsturmfuhrer Dr. Siegfried Schwela to May 1942
- SS- Obersturmfuhrer Oskar Dienstbach until August 1942
- SS- Haupsturmfuhrer Dr. Kurt Uhlenbrock from 17 August 1942
- Eduard Wirths [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other clinical staff
- Ernst B. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hans Muench [r]: Add brief definition or description
Participated in genocide
- Friedrich Entress [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erwin von Halmerson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bruno Kitt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fritz Klein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edmund Konig [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Josef Mengele [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinz Thilo [r]: Add brief definition or description
Service functions
- Auschwitz agricultural department [r]: Add brief definition or description Responsible for the development of farming and stockbreeding and also with research into experimental plant stations; managed by SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Joachim Caesar
- Auschwitz central construction board [r]: Add brief definition or description directly subordinated to WVHA and was concerned with the planning, construction and extension of the Auschwitz camps and extermination facilities; managed by SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Karl Bischoff and in 1944 by SS-Obersturmfuhrer Werner Jothann.
- Miklos Nyiszli [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nina Gladitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rudolf Hoess [r]: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 [e]