Richard Glücks
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Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into
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Concentration Camp Inspector Theodor Eicke, to whom Glücks was chief of staff.
The T-building in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, home of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate from 1938
A can of Zyklon B with adsorbent granules and original signed documents detailing ordering of Zyklon B as "materials for Jewish resettlement" (on display at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)
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
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…ideological commitment". On 1 April 1936, Glücks became the chief of staff to Theodor Eicke, who was then Concentration Camps Inspector and head of the SS-Wachverbände. When Eicke became field commander of the SS Division Totenkopf during the summer of 1939, Glücks was promoted by Himmler on 15 November 1939 as Eicke's…
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