Karl Fritzsch
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Karl Fritzsch was a German SS official who served as deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1941. He is best known as the official responsible for the death of p
Empty poison gas canisters found by the Soviet Army in Auschwitz-Birkenau at the end of World War II
Maximilian Kolbe
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Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death cam
Karl Fritzsch
…deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1941. He is best known as the official responsible for the death of priest Maximilian Kolbe and, according to Rudolf Höss, first suggesting using poisonous gas Zyklon B and experimenting with gas chambers for the purpose of mass murder at…
Kolbe in 1936
Maximilian Kolbe's prison cell in Block 11, Auschwitz concentration camp
Kolbe, on a West German postage stamp, marked Auschwitz
The statue of Kolbe (left) above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey