Heinrich Wicker
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Heinrich Wicker was a German SS-Untersturmführer. He was the last commandant of the Dachau concentration camp. In the final weeks of the war, Wicker was responsible for leading a death march in which
Wicker after the liberation of Dachau
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.
Heinrich Wicker
…exhaustion. This death march led to the Munich-Allach concentration camp. On 28 April 1945 Wicker became the final commandant of Dachau, after commandant Eduard Weiter fled. On 29 April 1945, Wicker surrendered the camp to General Henning Linden of the 42nd Infantry Division (United States) of the 7th US Army. Wicker…
The main gate at Dachau concentration camp, marked with the slogan, Arbeit macht frei