Theodor eicke biography
- Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era.
- Theodor Eicke was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era.
- Theodor Eicke, the infamous commander of Dachau, belonged to the Totenkopfverbande - the SS branch responsible for running Himmler's network of concentration.
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Top image: View of the moat, barbed wire and one of the guard towers of the concentration camp at Dachau, 1945. US Army Signal Corps Photo, Gift of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum, 2009.373.065.
In June 2004, while spending a weekend in Munich away from dissertation research at the Austrian National Library, I boarded a train in the city’s Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) for a short trip. Accompanying me was my friend, Haitham Ibrahim, a scholar in the field of comparative literature. Our destination—the Dachau concentration camp—was close, shockingly close.
On the way, we talked a bit nervously about what we would see. The day before, Haitham and I stopped by Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilian University to look at the commemorative plaque for Sophie and Hans Scholl, the immensely courageous and tragic figures of the White Rose resistance group, who had been arrested there in February 1943 after leaving anti-Nazi leaflets for students. Now we headed to Dachau, the genesis of the National Socialist concentration-camp
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Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke (Hampont, Fráncia, 17 d'outubre de 1892 - Orël, Ounion Sobiética, 26 de febreiro de 1943) fui un dirigente nazista coincido por tener participado junto de Michel Lippert al assassinato de Ernst Röhn, durante la Nuite de las facas longas. Acupou l cargo de SS-Oubergruppenfuhrer, i comandou Totenkopf de la Waffen-SS.[1]
Un de ls respunsables pula criaçon de ls campos de cuncentraçon na Almanha Nazista, fui assassinado an 26 de febreiro de 1943, durante ua misson na Ounion Sobiética.
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Refréncias
- ↑Lexikon dar Wehrmacht. «Theodor Eicke». Cunsultado an 26 de dezembre de 2010
- Andrew Mollo. La Pitorial Story of the SS, 1923–1945. [S.l
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Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a SS-Obergruppenführer (German General), commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His Nazi Party number was 114,901 and his SS number was 2,921. Together with SS-ObersturmbannführerMichael Lippert, Eicke executed SA Chief Ernst Röhm following the Night of the Long Knives purge.
Early Life — World War I[]
Eicke, the son of a station master, was born in Hudingen (Hampont), near Château-Salins (then in the German province of Elsass-Lothringen) into a lower-middle-class family. The youngest of 11 children, he did not do well in school and dropped out at the age of 17 before graduation. He joined the 23rd Bavarian Infantry Regiment as a volunteer; later on, in World War I, he took the office of paymaster for the 3rd — and, from 1916 on, the 22nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment. He won the Iron Cross, Second Class in 1914 f
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