Wilhelm Koppe
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Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Koppe was a German Nazi Party politician and an SS-Obergruppenführer and a General of the Waffen-SS. He held several high-level commands, including as the Higher SS and Police Le
Koppe, c. 1938
SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Koppe salutes SS and German police troops
Chełmno extermination camp
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Chełmno, or Kulmhof, was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated 50 km north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Germany
Wilhelm Koppe
…was responsible for numerous atrocities against Jews and Poles during his tenure, including sending an estimated 145,000 of them to their deaths at the Chelmno extermination camp. After the end of the war, he escaped detection and arrest until 1960. Although West Germany began a criminal prosecution in 1964, it was terminated…
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Gauleiter Arthur Greiser in Poznań (Posen), 1939
A model of Magirus-Deutz gas van used for murder at Chełmno; the exhaust fumes were diverted into the sealed rear compartment where the victims were locked in. This particular van had not been modified yet.
Deportation to Chełmno