Otto Förschner: Nazi Camp Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora and Kaufering

World History: True Stories of the 20th Century · Jul 6, 2026 · 13m

Otto Förschner was a Nazi SS officer and concentration camp commandant responsible for the exploitation and destruction of tens of thousands of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. As commandant of Mittelbau-Dora and later the Kaufering camp complex, Förschner stood at the center of a system that combined industrial production with mass death. Born in Bavaria in 1902, Förschner joined the Wehrmacht after World War I and later became a member of the SS and the Nazi Party. After serving on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, he was wounded and declared…