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Nazi SS Haupsturmfuehrer Karl Fritzsch (1903-c1945) at Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Fritzsch was 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. Hauptsturmfuehrer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations including the SS, NSKK, and the NSFK. The rank of Hauptsturmführer was a mid-level commander and had equivalent seniority to a captain in the German Army. (Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.)

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