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Parent topics

• The Holocaust [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]
  • WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]
    • Oswald Pohl [r]: SS-Obergruppenfuehrer, Waffen SS; Head of the SS WVHA; and its Amtsgruppe W; executed by verdict of the Pohl Case (NMT) ^[e]
    • Inspectorate of Concentration Camps [r]: Add brief definition or description
      • Theodor Eicke [r]: Nazi Gruppenfuehrer; first commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp and became Inspector of Concentration Camps; with Michael Lippert, personally killed Ernst Roehm during Night of the Long Knives purge; commanded SS Totenkopf Division 1939-1943, when killed in a plane crash ^[e]
      • Richard Glücks [r]: Add brief definition or description
      • Christian Wirth [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Facilities

• Dachau Concentration Camp [r]: A Nazi death camp in which around 40,000 inmates died (out of 200,000 prisoners in all), located about 10 miles northeast of Munich. ^[e]
• Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp [r]: Third Nazi concentration camp, established in 1936, collecting prisoners, at first primarily political, from the Berlin area; located near Oranienburg, north of Berlin ^[e]
• Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. ^[e]
  • Auschwitz I main camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp [r]: An subcamp of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, also called Auschwitz II; principally for killing with Zyklon B but also for Nazi medical experiments ^[e]
  • Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp [r]: A spinoff of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, also known as Auschwitz III, built primarily to provide slave labor to nearby I.G. Farben and other factories ^[e]

Staff

• Eduard Wirths [r]: (1909-1945) Chief Medical Officer of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp (September 1942-January 1945); described by Robert Jay Lifton as conscientious, but also was the local supervisor of Josef Mengele and others; committed suicide shortly after surrender ^[e]
  • Josef Mengele [r]: (1911-1979) A Nazi SS Hauptsturmfuhrer and physician at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, involved in direct killings and nonconsensual medical experiments on humans. ^[e]
• Maximilian Grabner [r]: SS-Untersturmfuehrer and Gestapo officer; First Chief of the Political Section at Auschwitz Concentration Camp ^[e]
  • Pery Broad [r]: Add brief definition or description