Martin Gottfried Weiss
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Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß, but best known as The Demon of Dachau was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from Apr
Weiss in U.S. custody, 1945
The main gate at Dachau concentration camp, marked with the slogan Arbeit macht frei
Reconnaissance photograph of the Majdanek concentration camp (1944)
Majdanek concentration camp
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Majdanek was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had three gas ch
Martin Gottfried Weiss
…1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp, and later, from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Weiss was born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz. His father worked for the Royal Bavarian State Railways. He had two sisters…
2013 KL Majdanek crematorium 01
Arrival of new inmates.
Zyklon B stored in the camp.