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Parent topics

• The Holocaust [r]: Add brief definition or description
• WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]
• Concentration camp [r]: A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes unwanted ethnic groups are detained and confined under extremely harsh conditions (including the murder of the detainees as during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany). ^[e]
• Extermination camp [r]: A subset of six Nazi concentration camps in Holocaust, designed principally for killing ideological and racial undesirables as part of the Final Solution ^[e]

Subtopics

Subcamps and commandants

• Auschwitz main concentration camp [r]: Variously refers to the original camp, the overall direction of the three subcamps (Main or I, Auschwitz-II or Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, and Auschwitz-III or [[Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp}} ^[e]
  • Rudolf Hoess [r]: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 ^[e]
  • Arthur Liebehenschel [r]: SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Second commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (11 November 1943-8 May 1944) ^[e]
  • Richard Baer [r]: SS-Sturmbannfueher; Third commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (8 May 1944-January 1945) ^[e]
• Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp [r]: Add brief definition or description

Direct camp supervision

• Lagerfuhrer [r]: In a Nazi concentration camp, was the deputy to the Commandant and directly responsible operation of the camp proper, making administrative reports on the camp complement and controlling internal order, recommending punishments and supervising punishments and executions; assisted by camp marshals (Rapportfuhrer) and their subordinate Blockfuhrer and, for women, Aufseherinnen ^[e]
  • 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] SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; first Lagerfuhrer and Auschwitz Concentration Camp, from its creation until the end of 1941.
  • Hans Aumeier [r]: (1906-1947) SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; second Lagerfuhrer of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, from December 1941 to August 1943; later commanded Vaivara concentration camp and the Grini camp in Norway; Poland tried and executed him in 1947 ^[e]SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; second Lagerfuhrer and Auschwitz Concentration Camp, December 1941-August 1943
  • Heinrich Schwarz [r]: (1906-1947) SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; third Lagerfuhrer of combined Auschwitz Concentration Camp ( August 1943-November 1943) then commanded Auschwitz-Monowitz; commanded Natzweiler in 1945; executed by France for war crimes in 1947 ^[e] SS-Haupsturmfuhrer; third Lagerfuhrer and Auschwitz Concentration Camp, August 1943-November 1943}}
  • Franz Johann Hofmann [r]: SS-Obersturmfuhrer; fourth Lagerfuhrer of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, November 1943-June 1944 ^[e]SS-Obersturmfuhrer; fourth Lagerfuhrer and Auschwitz Concentration Camp, November 1943-June 1944
  • Franz Hössler [r]: SS-Obersturmfuhrer; fifth and final Lagerfuhrer of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, June 1944-January 1945 ^[e]SS-Obersturmfuhrer; fifth and final Lagerfuhrer and Auschwitz Concentration Camp, June 1944-January 1945

Political section

• RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD ^[e]
  • Concentration camp political section [r]: Add brief definition or description
    • Maximilian Grabner [r]: SS-Untersturmfuehrer and Gestapo officer; First Chief of the Political Section at Auschwitz Concentration Camp ^[e]
    • Hans Schurz [r]: Add brief definition or description

Medical

Garrison doctor/chief medical officer

• SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Dr. Max Popiersch until September 1941
• SS- Haupsturmfuhrer Dr. Siegfried Schwela to May 1942
• SS- Obersturmfuhrer Oskar Dienstbach until August 1942
• SS- Haupsturmfuhrer Dr. Kurt Uhlenbrock from 17 August 1942
• Eduard Wirths [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other clinical staff

• Ernst B. [r]: Add brief definition or description

Participated in genocide

• Friedrich Entress [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin von Halmerson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bruno Kitt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edmund Konig [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Josef Mengele [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heinz Thilo [r]: Add brief definition or description

Service functions

• Auschwitz agricultural department [r]: Add brief definition or description Responsible for the development of farming and stockbreeding and also with research into experimental plant stations; managed by SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Joachim Caesar
• Auschwitz central construction board [r]: Add brief definition or description directly subordinated to WVHA and was concerned with the planning, construction and extension of the Auschwitz camps and extermination facilities; managed by SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Karl Bischoff and in 1944 by SS-Obersturmfuhrer Werner Jothann.

Other related topics

• Zyklon B [r]: Add brief definition or description