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    22056°N 22.59944°E / 51.22056; 22.59944 Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts...
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    The case of the Majdanek death camp The Majdanek trials were a series of consecutive war-crime trials held in Poland and in Germany during and after World...
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    Erntefest) was the murder of up to 43,000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police battalions, and the Ukrainian...
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    concentration camp List of subcamps of Kraków-Płaszów Majdanek concentration camp List of subcamps of Majdanek Mauthausen concentration camp List of subcamps...
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    Martin Gottfried Weiss (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Weiss was born in Weiden in...
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    labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps. Millions were also murdered in concentration camps, in the Aktion T4, or directly on site...
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    extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Most prisoners were gassed on arrival. A former World War I camp for...
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    and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a shortage of male guards. In the context of these camps, the...
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  • Hermann Florstedt (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    was a German SS official who served as the third commandant of Majdanek concentration camp from November 1942 to October 1943. Florstedt was a veteran of...
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  • Karl-Otto Koch (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in...
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