There were approximately 55,000 soldiers in all that ran the concentration camps. The number of camps varied through the time that concentration camps existed, towards the end there would have been 900 soldiers assigned to a camp.
who ran the German belzec camp
Like all Nazi concentration camps, it was run by the SS.
His name was Janusz Korczak. He ran an orphanage in Warsaw and accompanied his pupils to the Treblinka Death Camp.
Rudolf Höss an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (4 May 1940 to November 1943). He was replaced by Arthur Liebehenschel on December 1, 1943.
Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first permanent concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police chief of Munich, officially described the camp as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. It opened amid much publicity as it was intended as a deterrent to opponents of the regime. The camp was housed in a disused munitions factory. The first prisoners arrived at Dachau on 22 March 1933 and this is regarded as the opening date. Himmler gave a press conference about it at the time, and its existence was never a secret. Initially Dachau was run by the SA, not specifically by the SS. Later, Dachau became the model for all ordinary Nazi concentration camps.
who ran the German belzec camp
Like all Nazi concentration camps, it was run by the SS.
he was the general that ran the concentration camp
peter vandaan was sent to a concentration camp where he ran away and died
Like all the camps in Poland, it was run by Germany.
The Reich owned it the SS ran it Amon Goeth was in charge of it
His name was Janusz Korczak. He ran an orphanage in Warsaw and accompanied his pupils to the Treblinka Death Camp.
Elie Wiesel and his father ran from the Auschwitz concentration camp in the snow to the Buchenwald concentration camp. They endured a harrowing journey, facing extreme cold and exhaustion, before finally reaching Buchenwald.
Rudolf Höss an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (4 May 1940 to November 1943). He was replaced by Arthur Liebehenschel on December 1, 1943.
The functions of concentration camps expanded during the Nazi period. At first, they were horrific punishment camps to deter opponents. Later the SS (which ran the camps) set itself up in the business of making money by providing slave labour for German industry, and from 1941 about 5-8 camps were used as killing centres for genocide. Please see the related question(s).A criterion often used for deciding whether a camp was a concentration or extermination camp on the one hand, or some other kind of camp on the other, was: Who ran it? Concentration camps and extermination camps were run by the SS. Other camps were run by various agencies.Please see the related questions below.
here are some websites that have some information; the first has a list of the staff in a camp & what their offficial duties were, the second details the atrocities carried out at camps, & the third is a description of a book about the camp ss officers... http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/chainofcommand.html http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holocamp.html http://www.landmarkmilitarybooks.com/COMMANDERS-OF-AUSCHWITZ-THE-SS-OFFICERS-WHO-RAN-THE-NAZI-CONCENTRATION-CAMP-1940-1945-pr-1817.html
Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first permanent concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police chief of Munich, officially described the camp as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. It opened amid much publicity as it was intended as a deterrent to opponents of the regime. The camp was housed in a disused munitions factory. The first prisoners arrived at Dachau on 22 March 1933 and this is regarded as the opening date. Himmler gave a press conference about it at the time, and its existence was never a secret. Initially Dachau was run by the SA, not specifically by the SS. Later, Dachau became the model for all ordinary Nazi concentration camps.