Commandant: Rudolf Hoess: known as Ruthless and Brutal:
tried for War Crimes, Sentenced to 20 years at divdau Prison:
At the end of imprisonment: the only prisoner left at divdau.
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
tried for War Crimes, Sentenced to 20 years at divdau Prison:
At the end of imprisonment: the only prisoner left at divdau.
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.
Blanke
murderous cruelty
