Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour
Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from Nordhausen bury the corpses of prisoners found at Mittelbau-Dora in April 1945.
Otto Förschner, camp commandant (after 11 April 1945)
Richard Baer, camp commandant
Emaciated survivors of Nordhausen after liberation of the camp, 12 April 1945
Richard Baer
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Richard Baer was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 194
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
…over 6,000 V-1 rockets were built. Along with the inmates from Auschwitz arrived several hundred SS guards who joined the staff at Mittelbau, including Richard Baer, who succeeded Otto Förschner as overall Mittelbau commandant on 1 February 1945. Baer replaced most senior personnel with people from Auschwitz. Franz…
Enno Lolling, the director of Office DIII "Sanitation and Hygiene" in Department D "Concentration camps Inspectorate" of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office; with Richard Baer, commandant of Auschwitz I, and his adjutant Karl-Friedrich Höcker (left to right)
From left to right: Richard Baer, Josef Mengele and Rudolf Höss (1944)