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Parent topics

• Nazi concentration camps [r]: The system of concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, with a mixed chain of command but principally under the WVHA economic administration, under Oswald Pohl, of the SS; as part of Holocaust, they killed millions of Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war and others seen as undersirable by the Nazis; they complemented killing activities in the field, such as Einsatzgruppen ^[e]

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Staff

• Karl Fritzsch [r]: SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; first Lagerfuhrer ofAuschwitz Concentration Camp, from its creation until the end of 1941; conducted the initial mass executions of Soviet prisoners of war and the first executions using Zyklon B, which he first proposed; later transferred to Flossenburg Concentration Camp, convicted of corruption and murder, and transferred to a front-line SS combat unit ^[e]

Prominent prisoners

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer [r]: Christian theologian and long-term anti-Nazi; arrested and executed following 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Wilhelm Canaris [r]: Rear Admiral in the German Navy during WWII; commanded Abwehr military intelligence service, which contained many anti-Nazi conspirators and was eventually absorbed by the SS; eventually executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
• Hans Oster [r]: Officer in the WWII German Army; Deputy Chief of the Abwehr military organization reporting to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris; active member of the German Resistance; eventually executed in Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]

Other Nazi concentration camps documented in this wiki

•  Buchenwald Concentration Camp: A Nazi death camp, notorious for medical experiments, in which at least 56,000 inmates died (out of 250,000 prisoners in all), located near the German city of Weimar. ^[e]
•  Dachau Concentration Camp: 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]
• Mauthausen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
• Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp: A large system of concentration camps and subcamps in Austria; Mauthausen was the original camp; many deliberately killed but principally by starvation, overwork, beatings, and hurling into the rock quarry run by the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH ^[e]
•  Nordhausen Concentration Camp: A Nazi slave labor camp in which around 20,000 inmates died from malnutrition, overwork, or executions (out of 60,000 prisoners in all), located in the German city of Nordhausen. ^[e]