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Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2 May 1945) was a German member of the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Schutzstaffel (SS) from 1933 to 1945. He was a deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp. According to Rudolf Höss, Fritzsch first suggested using poisonous gas Zyklon B for the purpose ...
30 de ago. de 2005 · Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum historian Franciszek Piper says that using Zyklon-B to kill people was the brainchild of deputy camp commandant Hauptsturmfuehrer SS Karl Fritzsch, who also supervised the first poison gas operations.
Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2 May 1945) was a German member of the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Schutzstaffel (SS) from 1933 to 1945. He was a deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp. According to Rudolf Höss, Fritzsch first suggested using poisonous gas Zyklon B for the purpose of mass murder.
Karl Fritzsch was a SS officer who ran the Auschwitz and Flossenbürg camps. He was accused of inventing the first gassing of inmates at Auschwitz, but this claim is disputed by historians.
9 de mar. de 2011 · In the volume of the Voices of Memory series devoted to the history of the crematoria and gas chambers in the Auschwitz camp, the head of the Museum Research Department, Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, wrote that "About 600 Soviet POWs and 250 patients from the hospital were taken to the cellars of Block 11 on orders from camp director SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch, after which pellets of Zyklon B ...
Some of these figures became notorious, such as main camp (Auschwitz I Concentration Camp) directors SS-Haupsturmführer Karl Fritzsch and SS-Haupsturmführer Hans Aumeier, or the main camp Rapportführers, SS-Hauptscharführer Gerhard Palitzsch and SS-Oberscharführer Oswald Kaduk.
3 de oct. de 2021 · El oficial nazi Karl Fritzsch (1903-1945), a cargo del campo, ordenó que diez personas elegidas al azar entre los reclusos fueran condenadas a muerte, como represalia, para enviar un mensaje de...
