Karl-Otto Koch
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German SS officer and commandant of Nazi concentration camps.
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Karl-Otto Koch
- The Holocaust
- Nazi Germany
Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer and mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. He was the first commandant of the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. From September 1941 to August 1942, he was the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The supplied text states that he stole valuables and money from murdered Jews.
- Born
- 2 August 1897
- SS role
- Mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany
- Camp commandant
- First commandant of Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Majdanek
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Karl-Otto Koch (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q57495
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
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