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Parent topics

• Nazi concentration camps [r]: The system of concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, with a mixed chain of command but principally under the WVHA economic administration, under Oswald Pohl, of the SS; as part of Holocaust, they killed millions of Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war and others seen as undersirable by the Nazis; they complemented killing activities in the field, such as Einsatzgruppen ^[e]

Subtopics

Staff

• Michael Lippert [r]: (1897-1969) SS Assistant to Theodor Eicke, assisting him in killing Ernst Roehm; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1936); severely wounded on Russian Front commanding SS-Volunteer Legion Flandern; first commander, as Standartenfuehrer of 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg ^[e]
• Hans Hellwig [r]: Add brief definition or description Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1937 -1938)
• Karl Koch [r]: Add brief definition or description Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1936 -1937)
• Herman Baranowski [r]: Add brief definition or description Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940)
• Hans Loritz [r]: Add brief definition or description Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1940 -1942)
• Walter Eisfeld [r]: Add brief definition or description Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1939)
• Rudolf Hoess [r]: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 ^[e]
• Anton Kaindl [r]: Add brief definition or description Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1942)

Prominent prisoners

• John Godwin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Martin Luther (Nazi) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kurt Schuschnigg [r]: Add brief definition or description former Austrian chancellor
• Martin Niemoller [r]: Add brief definition or description
• George Elser [r]: Add brief definition or description Made bomb attempting to assassinate Hitler in a Munich beer hall
• Carl von Ossietzky [r]: Add brief definition or description 1935 Nobel Peace Prize winner was detained in Sachenhausen special house

Medical experiments

• Nazi epidemic jaundice experiments [r]: Conducted between June 1943 and January 1945, for the benefit of the German armed forces to investigate causes of and inoculations against "epidemic jaundice"; nonconsensual experiments were conducted on Polish prisoners at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler Concentration Camps, to investigate the causes of epidemic jaundice and vaccines against it ^[e]
• Nazi mustard gas experiments [r]: Experiments conducted in Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, and other Nazi concentration camps (September 1939 - April 1945) on behalf the German armed forces to investigate treatment of injuries caused by mustard gas, called "Lost" by Germany ^[e]

Other related topics

• Economic warfare [r]: The use of principally non-military methods to impose national policy, when those methods deal in the broad sense of economics, such as embargoes, freezing assets, and buying up raw materials. It may be complemented by military means such as intercepting supply shipments or attacking factories. ^[e]