The Concentration Camps Inspectorate or in German, IKL was the central Schutzstaffel administrative and managerial authority for the concentration camps of the Third Reich. Created by Theodor Eicke, i
Gestapo headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße in Berlin, 1933. The CCI moved into these offices in May 1934
Concentration Camp Inspector Theodor Eicke
Inspection by the Nazi party and Himmler at Dachau on 8 May 1936.
The T-building in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, home of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate from 1938
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Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into
Concentration Camps Inspectorate
…the camps expanded into the mid-1930s, so did the number of personnel assigned to the CCI. Eicke's most important subordinate, beginning in 1936, was Richard Glücks. On 1 April 1936, Glücks was named by Eicke military chief of staff of the Inspector of the Wachverbände and later became Eicke's deputy. Many of the…
Richard Glücks
A can of Zyklon B with adsorbent granules and original signed documents detailing ordering of Zyklon B as "materials for Jewish resettlement" (on display at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)