Franz Ziereis
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Franz Xaver Ziereis was the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1939 until the camp was liberated by American forces in 1945.
Ziereis (left) with Heinrich Himmler (center) and Karl Wolff (right) at Mauthausen in 1941
SS-Totenkopfverbände
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SS-Totenkopfverbände was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel organisation. It was responsible for administering the concentration camps and extermination camps of Nazi German
Right collar insignia (second version, 1934–1945)
SS-TV officers at Gusen concentration camp (October 1941)
SS-TV officers at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1936
Heinrich Himmler (front right, beside prisoner) inspecting Dachau concentration camp on 8 May 1936