Eduard Weiter
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Eduard Weiter was a German Schutzstaffel Obersturmbannführer and the final commandant of Dachau concentration camp during World War II.
The main gate at Dachau concentration camp, marked with the slogan, Arbeit macht frei
Georg Elser
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Johann Georg Elser was a German carpenter who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller
Eduard Weiter
…were closed), but Weiter made little attempt to expand Dachau to cope with this influx. It is also likely that Weiter personally killed the dissident Georg Elser, whose death was officially announced by Weiter as having been caused by an air raid. After the war, a letter to Weiter from Heinrich Müller was…
The Bürgerbräukeller after the bombing
Dornier flying boat, 1932
"The solemn act of state in front of the Feldherrnhalle in Munich (11 November 1939) for the seven victims of the criminal bomb attack in Bürgerbräukeller on 8 November 1939" (original caption)
Himmler (centre) in conference with Huber, Nebe, Heydrich, and Müller, (left to right) in November 1939