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1. Commandant Hermann Pister oversees a column of prisoners.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 23658
Date:
1937 - 1941
…Commandant Hermann Pister oversees a column of prisoners.…
2. Commandant Hermann Pister exits a wooden building (possibly an administrative barracks) at Hinzert (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 23662
Date:
1937 - 1941
…Commandant Hermann Pister exits a wooden building (possibly an administrative barracks) at Hinzert (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).…
3. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… May 1944 and arrived at Buchenwald on April 15, 1945 where he served as the first American commander of Buchenwald after liberation. He worked to…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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4. Four SS officers including Commandant Hermann Pister have a conversation on the grounds of the Hinzert concentration camp (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 23666
Date:
1937 - 1941
…Four SS officers including Commandant Hermann Pister have a conversation on the grounds of the Hinzert concentration camp (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).…
5. Commandant Hermann Pister plays with a dog together with two other SS officers in the yard of his home in Hinzert.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 23657
Date:
1937 - 1941
…Commandant Hermann Pister plays with a dog together with two other SS officers in the yard of his home in Hinzert.…
6. Commandant Hermann Pister, accompanied by two other SS officers, examines a bunker in the Hinzert concentration camp (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 23665
Date:
1937 - 1941
…Commandant Hermann Pister, accompanied by two other SS officers, examines a bunker in the Hinzert concentration camp (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).…
7. Commandant Hermann Pister, accompanied by three other officers, exits a wooden building (possibly an administrative barracks) at Hinzert (a sub-camp of Buchenwald).
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 23663
Date:
1937 - 1941
…Commandant Hermann Pister, accompanied by three other officers, exits a wooden building (possibly an administrative barracks) at Hinzert (a sub-camp…
8. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
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 … confession given by Heinrich Müller, commandant of Kaiserwald. The identification and passes series http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
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9. Heilpern family papers
2015.528.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 41
Document | Accession Number: 2015.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
… an original document issued by the commandant of Buchenwald regarding Hans' internment in the camp.…
10. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
… Service to Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104…
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 … of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division in…
11. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Graves Registration Command as a fingerprint analyst identifying deceased American soldiers. He was transferred back to Frankfurt am Main later in the year…
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 … Graves Registration Command as a fingerprint analyst identifying deceased American soldiers. He was transferred back to Frankfurt am Main later in the year…
12. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
… monetary value. Buchenwald operated 134 subcamps, and issued two different types of special currency. The exchange scrip had Außenkommando, outside command…
13. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
… the day after Patton's 3rd Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. Buchenwald was then transferred to the command of the 1…
14. Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.20
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
bulk: 1937-1945
Alternate Title:
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
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 … Rudolf Schneller. 1944. 12 pp. Folder begins at image 2062 Russian translations of Sachsenhausen material. 7 Names lists of special command "Dirlewanger…