Commandant: Rudolf Hoess: known as Ruthless and Brutal:
>tried for War Crimes, Hoss initially 'escaped' to England but was tried as a war criminal after the war. He was tried at a tribunal in Warsaw, and then hung at Auschwitz.
In a prison wrote a report on Auschwitz and his function in it, partially summarized in Auschwitz Chronicles -an archival data base which includes German Federal and auschwitz archives. While revisionist like to argue against massive gassings at the killing centers, Hoess was quite clear about his own eyewitness account: "The gassing was carried out in the detention cells of Block 11. Protected by a gas mask, I watched the killing myself. In the crowded cells, death came instantaneously the moment the Zyklon B was thrown in. A short, almost smothered cry, and it was all over... I must even admit that this gassing set my mind at rest, for the mass extermination of the Jews was to start soon, and at that time neither Eichmann nor I was certain as to how these mass killings were to be carried out. It would be by gas, but we did not know which gas and how it was to be used. Now we had the gas, and we had established a procedure."
Wife and children lived at Auschwitz, Catholic. Had an affair
with a Jewish inmate, and hid the affair by having her gassed.
Responsible for the Great majority of deaths at Auschwitz, reported
Statistics and accountable to Eichmann.See Gestapo &
Other Decision-Makers
Kommandant: Arthur Liebenhenschel
Kommandant: Richard Baer
Dr. Josef Mengele: Medical Experimentation
Dr. Carl Clauberg: Sterilization of Women
SS Members: "totenkopfverbande: "Death Headers": 6000 employed.
Totenkopfsturmbann: battalions
Blockateste:
Vorarbeiter: foremen
Sonderkommandos
Kapos - Jewish nazi-appointed 'officials'.
Names: Simon Wiesenthal Center: Multimedia Center: Auschwitz
Camp Commander was SS-Obersturmführer - First Lieutenant in the SS, Walter Heinrich
-SS Guard: Berg, formerly of Dachau
-SS Guard: Petri
-SS-Schutzhaftlagerführer I - first SS-Protective Custody camp com- mander, Hans Cornelis Stöver
-SS-Schutzhaftlagerführer II - second SS-Protective Custody camp commander, Karl Peter Berg
-Stabkompanie beim höheren SS- und Polizeiführer Nord-West - Staff company
-SS-Hauptsturmführer: SS Captain Dr. Alphons Brendel. -SS-Hauptsturmführer : SS Captain Paul Anton Helle.
-SS-Unterschutzhaftlagerführer Joseph Johann Kotälla
-20-30 SS men
1http://www.cympm.com/amersfoort.html
gendarmerie, Johann Merker and Focht[burning of corpses]
commander - S.S. Platoon, Rever[burning of corpses]
Schutzpolizist Togel, Einsatzkommando 10a
Viktor Trill, Sonderkommando 4a,
SS-Oberstrumfuhrer August Hafner
Friedrich Jeckeln
Colonel Dr. Lange, Commander of the SD and Gestapo in Latvia.
Lange, Knecht, Lohse,
Lieutenant Colonel Osis, commander : traffic police in Riga.
Truck-Driver Hofer [testified at war crimes trial re:Babi Yar shootings]
1NOTE: Syrets or Syresz was the name of the camp established outside of Kiev near
the site of Babi Yar after the Mass executions. 1Jewish Virtual Library: Babiyar;
2Einsatzgruppen Archives
3Nizkor Project: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-07/tgmwc-07-62-01.shtml
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Adolf Haas: 1943 assigned
before to Niederhagen-Wewelsburg
Second Commandant:
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Kramer "Beast of Belsen",
previous assignment: Auschwitz, in Camp System since 1934.
Known for cruelty and death marches: thousands of deaths.
Source:USHMM, JewishGen:Forgotten Camps; AICE; Under Shadow of Death
Camp Commandant: Franz Ziereis;
Manned by Nazis and locals 15,000 on staff between 1938-1945, only 800 named
Gestapoagent: Polaska
SS Oberscharfuhrer Niedemeyer
SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wolfram and Ackerman
SS Untersturmfuhrer Dr. Richter
Dr. Kiesewetter
Pohl
SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Karl Chmielewski
Adjutant SS Hauptscharfuhrer Heinz Jentzsch
Block-Aeltester Schroegler
Kapo van Loosen & Klockmann
Trials at Dachau: 3-1-46: 58 Sentenced to Death: 3-life imprisonment; Commandant
Ziereis died during liberation of gunshot wounds, with confession. (Confession may be
found at Jewish
Virtual Library:Mauthausen
“A4 Special Committee: headed by Gerhard Degenkolb, headed V2 production, and
was previously known for revamping German railway/locomotive production-he first headed Peenemunde1
SS Brigadier General Hans Kammler headed Mittelbau -Dora-Rottleberode and Stemped-Gardelegen.. Kammler
had previously headed the construction of camps and gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Maidenek, and Belzec.
Werner Von Braun, not officially on staff oversaw work of the A2s and the V2 rockets both at Peenemunde and
at the complex of Mittelbau Dora. The degree of his involvement had to have been substantial as he was one
of the moving forces behind rocketry development in Germany: those at Peenemunde after the bombing either moved
with the project to Mittelbau-Dora or 'oversaw' the continuing work. He denied seeing mistreatment of prisoners
in order to enter the US in the 50s, but had to have seen it since the inmates were never allowed above ground where
the factories moved.
SS-Untersturmführer Erhart Brauny-sentenced to prison, the transport leader of those evacuated from the Dora camp.
"Brauny was accused of "numerous and terrible beatings, mistreatment of prisoners and acts of personal sadism against
inmates of Rottleberode" in addition to being charged with responsibility for the Gardelegen "2
Kreisleiter of Gardelegen, Gerhard Thiele: a civilian, lower level Nazi Official
Himmler at one point directed to Speer that he would oversee the Mittelbau Dora project after Peenemunde was bombed
1http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/mittel.html
2Dachau-Dora Trials
-Commandant:Andrusev was personally involved in the murder of 10,000 Jews, &
although escaping after the war, was sentenced to death in 1966 by a Soviet Court for war crimes.
.
Commissar Rapaport, known as The Beast, known for mass executions [Vinnitsa Oblast]
>tried for War Crimes, Hoss initially 'escaped' to England but was tried as a war criminal after the war. He was tried at a tribunal in Warsaw, and then hung at Auschwitz.
In a prison wrote a report on Auschwitz and his function in it, partially summarized in Auschwitz Chronicles -an archival data base which includes German Federal and auschwitz archives. While revisionist like to argue against massive gassings at the killing centers, Hoess was quite clear about his own eyewitness account: "The gassing was carried out in the detention cells of Block 11. Protected by a gas mask, I watched the killing myself. In the crowded cells, death came instantaneously the moment the Zyklon B was thrown in. A short, almost smothered cry, and it was all over... I must even admit that this gassing set my mind at rest, for the mass extermination of the Jews was to start soon, and at that time neither Eichmann nor I was certain as to how these mass killings were to be carried out. It would be by gas, but we did not know which gas and how it was to be used. Now we had the gas, and we had established a procedure."
Wife and children lived at Auschwitz, Catholic. Had an affair
with a Jewish inmate, and hid the affair by having her gassed.
Responsible for the Great majority of deaths at Auschwitz, reported
Statistics and accountable to Eichmann.See Gestapo &
Other Decision-Makers
20-30 SS men
previous assignment: Auschwitz, in Camp System since 1934.
Known for cruelty and death marches: thousands of deaths.
Blanke
SS Officer Koch: 1st Commandant-known for murderous cruelty
Kommandant: Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans Bootman
Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss hanged at 11:46am 5-29-46 unmarked grave:Landberg Prison
The staff at Karaganda is not easily listed, depending on reports and eyewitnesses. Please contact shoaheducation.com at
was previously known for revamping German railway/locomotive production-he first headed Peenemunde1
