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unusual facts about Nazi concentration camp



Aribert Heim

As an SS doctor in a Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, he was accused of killing and torturing many inmates by various methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims.

Curt Rothenberger

One of his first acts as state secretary was to agree a deal with SS-Brigadeführer Bruno Streckenbach whereby prisoners deemed as "antisocial" were to be removed from jails and given over to the SS to be worked to death in the Nazi concentration camps.

Dziemiany

It was the location of the Nazi concentration camp Dzimianen - Sophienwalde, a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof.

Eleonore Poelsleitner

Eleonore Polsleitner was a female guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

Hans Hüttig

Hans Hüttig (born 5 April 1894 in Dresden - died 23 February 1980 in Wachenheim) was a German Schutzstaffel officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant.

Johannes Hassebroek

Johannes Hassebroek (11 July 1910 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt – 17 April 1977 in Westerstede) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant.

Revier

A revier (abbreviated from German Krankenrevier, or "sick bay", "dispensary") in the language of Nazi camps was a barrack for sick concentration camp inmates.


see also

Adolf Winkelmann

Adolf Winkelmann (physician) (1887–1947), German physician of the Ravensbrück Nazi concentration camp, see Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials

Jan Sviták

Sviták also tried to warn the prominent Czech singer and actor Karel Hašler, who was later murdered in Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen.

Jean Bernard

Father Jean Bernard (1907–1994), Catholic priest who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau

John Hansl

On April 8, 2005, a federal court working with evidence obtained by the Office of Special Investigations, revoked his American citizenship because of his service as a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Karl Koch

Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald

Montse Armengou Martín

The films examine different aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship; - the forced relocation of Republican children, disappearances and mass graves, and the 1940 deportation of Spanish Republicans from the French town of Angouleme to the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen, Austria.

Ovitz family

In March 2013 Warwick Davis presented an episode of the ITV series Perspectives: "Warwick Davis - The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz" where he explores the story of the Ovitz family, including an interview with Perla Ovitz recorded in 1999 recounting how they survived the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz and the experiments of Josef Mengele.

Pink triangle

An openly gay man named Heinz Dörmer, for instance, served 20 years total, first in a Nazi concentration camp and then in the jails of the new Republic.

Remco Campert

His father died in 1943 in a Nazi concentration camp, Neuengamme.

Rescue of Stutthof victims in Denmark

The rescue of Stutthof victims in Denmark took place on 5 May 1945 at Klintholm Havn, a small fishing village on the south coast of the island of Møn, when a barge full of famished Nazi concentration camp prisoners was towed into harbour.

Sisters of Life

The Sisters of Life were an order first conceived of by Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor of New York, on a visit to the remains of a Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.