Hermann_Baranowski

Hermann Baranowski

Hermann Baranowski

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Hermann Baranowski (11 June 1884 in Schwerin – 5 February 1940 in Aue) was a German politician and military figure. A member of the Nazi Party, he is best known as the commandant of two German concentration camps of the SS Death's Head unit.[1] He was the Schutzhaftlagerführer of Dachau concentration camp in 1938, where he had been sent as compound leader in 1936.[2] He served as the SS-Oberführer of Sachsenhausen concentration camp from February 1938 - September 1939.[citation needed] He was noted to be especially sadistic.[3][4]

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    Tuchel, Konzentrationslager, S. 371. Die bei Tuchel angegebenen Ränge sind auf die zum Zeitpunkt der Ernennung gebräuchlichen Bezeichnungen geändert.
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    Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence – Christopher Dillon – Google Books
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    Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand – Benjamin Carter Hett – Google Books
  4. [4]
    Werner Scholem: A German Life – Mirjam Zadoff – Google Books
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