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Siegfried Seidl: Nazi Commandant of Theresienstadt Who Sent Thousands to Death
Siegfried Seidl was the first Nazi commandant of the Theresienstadt ghetto-concentration camp, where he oversaw mass deportations and helped build the machinery that sent tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust.
Born in Vienna in 1911, Seidl joined the Nazi Party and the SS at an early age, drawn by Adolf Hitler’s vision of racial engineering and authoritarian order. He quickly distinguished himself within the SS bureaucracy, working closely with Adolf Eichmann at the Vienna Central Office for Jewish Emigration, where he helped organize the forced deportation of Jews…
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