Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) by Ian Baxter

Author:Ian Baxter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Bic Code 1: HBWQ, Bisac Code 1: HIS027100, HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: 9781473846784
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-11-30T08:00:00+00:00

A photograph of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Bothmann. Bothmann was the last commandant of the Chelmno extermination camp from 1942, and commander of the SS Special Detachment. Bothmann was responsible for the extermination of Jews from the Lodz Ghetto. He was able to boast that Chelmno had murdered 180,000 Jews from the summer of 1942 until the camp was finally closed in March 1943. Bothmann was dispatched to Yugoslavia, but a year later he was summoned back to Poznań to command a renewed killing operation at Chelmno. In this final phase of the camp operation some 25,000 victims were murdered under the supervision of Bothmann. However, with the continued deportation of Jews from the East and other victims regarded as hostile to the Reich, in mid-July 1944 the SS and police began deporting the remaining inhabitants of the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz for immediate destruction. (Courtesy of M. Kaldow)

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