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Stefan Baretzki was born in 1919 into a Bukovina German family in Cernăuți (Czernowitz), then part of the Kingdom of Romania. [1] Hermann Langbein, an Austrian historian and Auschwitz political prisoner, noted that Baretzki was born in the same town as Viktor Pestek, an Auschwitz guard executed by the Nazis because he helped Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, to escape. [2]
Reinhold Hanning (28 December 1921 – 30 May 2017 [1] [2]) was an SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. [3] Hanning volunteered for the Waffen SS at the age of 18 at the urging of his stepmother. [4] During the Holocaust, he was an SS guard from early 1942 until June 1944. [5]
The SS command of Auschwitz concentration camp refers to those units, commands, and agencies of the German SS which operated and administered during World War II.Due to its large size and key role in the Nazi genocide program, the Auschwitz concentration camp encompassed personnel from several different branches of the SS, some of which held overlapping and shared areas of responsibility.
Ewald Franz Gottfried Weise (11 March 1921 – 1 March 2000) was a German SS-Unterscharführer and guard at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.During a relatively short period at Auschwitz – from the end of May 1944 until the end of January 1945 – Weise gained a reputation as an exceptionally cruel guard.
Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) [1] was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners.
Irma Ilse Ida Grese [a] (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen.She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for the atrocities she committed in Birkenau.
Hans Stark (14 June 1921 – 29 March 1991) was an SS-Untersturmführer and head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration camp. Life and SS career [ edit ]
1 Life. 2 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... 1917 [1] – October 3, 1946) was a Nazi SS female supervisor and guard at Auschwitz concentration camp. [2 ...