Karl Chmielewski, born 16 July 1903 in Frankfurt am Main, the city where also Anne Frank, was born, was a German SS officer and concentration camp commandant. Such was his cruelty that he was dubbed Teufel von Gusen or the Devil of Gusen. After an unschooled education, Chmielewski becomes at the age of 16 an in-carcassist and carpenter…. Read more »
On June 21th-1942, General Erwin Rommel turns his assault on the British-Allied garrison at Tobruk, Libya, into victory, as his panzer division occupies the North African port. Britain had established control of Tobruk after routing the Italians in 1940. But the Germans attempted to win it back by reinforcing Italian troops with the Afrika Korps… Read more »
The Second World War began with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. The tactic used by Hitler is called the Blitzkrieg; The lightning war. In this very short time he managed to conquer large parts of Europe. Von Schlieffenplan. The lightning war was based on the plan made by General Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913)… Read more »
Siegfried Seidl, was an Austrian career officer and Commandant of the Theresianstadt concentration camp located in the present-day czech Republic. He also was commandant of the Bergen Belsen, and later served as staff officer to Adolf Eichmann. After the war, in 1947, he was tried in Austria and convicted as a war criminal; sentenced to death, he… Read more »
Konstantin Hierl (born 24 February 1875 in Parsberg, Germany) was a national socialist politician and official. He was a cousin of Johann Baptist Hierl , auxiliary bishop in Regensburg (1911-1936). After the visit of the Humanist Gymnasium in Burghausen and Regensburg, Hierl joined the Bavarian Army’s 11th Infantry Regiment “von der Tann” in 1893 as a… Read more »