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Hans Loritz: Nazi Camp Commandant of Dachau and Sachsenhausen Who Escaped Justice
Hans Loritz, a Nazi concentration camp commandant of Dachau and Sachsenhausen, became one of the key architects of early SS camp brutality during the Second World War. Hans Loritz was belonged to concentration camp commandants of Nazi Germany, playing a key role in shaping the terror system of the early SS camps during the Second World War. His name is closely associated with the concentration camps of Dachau and Sachsenhausen, where violence, torture, and arbitrary murder became tools of daily control.
Born in 1895, Loritz joined the Nazi Party and the SS in the early years of Hitler’s rise…
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