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A group of SS officers gather together [probably in Dachau].

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    A group of SS officers gather together [probably in Dachau].
    A group of SS officers gather together [probably in Dachau]. Pictured on the far right is Martin Gottfried Weiss. Richard Gluecks is in the center facing to the right.

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    A group of SS officers gather together [probably in Dachau].

    Pictured on the far right is Martin Gottfried Weiss. Richard Gluecks is in the center facing to the right.
    Locale
    Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany ?
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Crane

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Joseph Crane
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1993.A.55

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    Martin Gottfried Weiss served as Commandant of Neuengamme, Dachau and Majdanek concentration camps. An SS Obersturmbannfuehrer he eventually was promoted to Inspector of the Concentration Camps. In March 1945 Weiss returned to Dachau and supervised the camp during the last months of the war. As the American Seventh Army approached the camp, Weiss fled in civilian clothing. However he was captured on May 2, 1945 and tried with war crimes. The principal defendant at the Dachau trial which commenced on November 15, 1945, Weiss was convicted and hanged at Dachau on May 29, 1946.
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