The Camp Men

nside these pages you will meet over 960 infamous menthe officers of Nazi Germany’s Totenkopf (Death’s Head). You will encounter the 256 SS officers who worked at Dachauthe SS concentration camp that doubled as a training school for death. You will encounter twelve SS officers who served in Treblinka and the other very secret camps of Operation ReinhardHeinrich Himmler’s extermination plan for the Jews of Poland. And, you will confront the 161 SS officers who ran the largest killing center of all timeAuschwitz. These officers of the Death’s Head, many of whom later served in the Waffen-SS, were not the bureaucrats who meticulously planned Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution from behind a desk in Berlin, or those who quietly scheduled the trains that carried the victims to the camps. Quite the contrary; these men stood on the front-line of the Nazi war to exterminate the Jewsthey poured the gas pellets, they conducted the gruesome medical experiments, they supervised the crematoria, they smelled the stench of death, they heard the screams, they ordered the guards to shoot. They were The Camp Menand they were at the heart of darkness. The photographic section of the book, with well over one hundred photographsa large portion previously unpublishedis the largest collection of photographs of SS camp personnel ever to appear in one work. The images come from the extensive files of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Berlin Document Center, Yad Vashem and many other institutional collections. There are additionally photographs from private sources, including almost twenty rare pictures from the Gross-Rosen camp kommandant’s personal photograph album.[AuthorName]By (author) French L. MacLean[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Colonel French L. MacLean, United States Army, (Ret.), served over thirty-four years in the Senior Service. Born in Peoria, Illinois, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974, and later from the Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies. He has written numerous history books under the Schiffer label.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]over 140 b/w photographs, maps[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]The SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]over 140 b/w photographs, maps[/ColorPattern]