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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 Guard battalion was organized on military lines with a Battalion Commander, Company and Platoon Leaders, as well as non-commissioned officers and enlisted SS soldiers. Camp guards were either members of the SS-TV or Waffen-SS veterans rotated into the concentration camp system due to wounds in action or for some other administrative reason.
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]
German chemicals company IG Farben built and operated a synthetic rubber factory at Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Other private companies like Krupp and Siemens-Schuckert also ran factories nearby, to ...
The nearly four-month long trial included testimony from around a dozen Holocaust survivors, many of them extremely elderly.
Paul Heinrich Theodor Müller (31 January 1896 in Kiel – after January 1945, declared dead by the District Court of Hohenlimburg in 1953 [1]) was a German member of the SS and Concentration Camp Operational Leader (Schutzhaftlagerführer) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
In 1944, Moll oversaw all the crematoria in Birkenau. He also was a Lagerführer of the Auschwitz sub-camps of Fürstengrube in Wesola and Gleiwitz I. According to Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, he and Moll were both decorated by Adolf Hitler with the War Merit Cross, First Class with Swords. [13]
Roughly 50 survivors of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps attended Monday’s commemoration. In recent days, hundreds of visitors from around the world have come to the former camp to ...