Fritz Hartjenstein

The Holocaust
Nazi Germany

Friedrich "Fritz" Hartjenstein was a German SS officer and concentration camp commandant during the Second World War. He served in the Nazi concentration camp system, commanding Auschwitz II-Birkenau from November 1943 to May 1944 and Natzweiler-Struthof from May 1944. After the war, British and French military courts tried him for crimes committed in the camp system. He received multiple death sentences, which were not carried out, and died in Paris in 1954 after release from French custody because of terminal illness.

Role: German SS officer and concentration camp commandant
Auschwitz II-Birkenau command: November 1943 to May 1944
Postwar outcome: Received multiple death sentences that were not carried out

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Article: Fritz Hartjenstein (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q61996
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Unknown authorUnknown author, Anthony M. Webb (Hrsg.): Trial of Wolfgang Zeuss, Magnus Wochner, Emil Meier, Peter Straub, Fritz Hartjenstein, Franz Berg, Werner Rohde, Emil Bruttel, Kurt aus dem Bruch und Harberg, 1949, S. 112
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