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  1. Arthur Liebehenschel ( German: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈliːbəhɛnʃl̩] ⓘ; 25 November 1901 – 24 January 1948) was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes by the Polish government and executed in 1948.

  2. Arthur Liebehenschel was a high-ranking Nazi party member who served as the commandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and Majdanek Extermination Camp. Liebehenschel joined the Nazi Party in 1932, and the SS ( Schutzstaffel) in 1934.

  3. Arthur Liebehenschel was a SS officer who commanded the Auschwitz Main Camp for a few months in 1943. He was executed by the Polish authorities after the war, despite his alleged humane treatment of the prisoners and his lack of involvement in any atrocities.

  4. The best-known defendants were Arthur Liebehenschel, former commandant; Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served as guards or doctors in the camps were also tried.

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    Camp commandant
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    SS-Untersturmführer
    Camp Gestapo chief
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    SS-Obersturmbannführer
    Manager of camp administration
  5. Sep 1, 2017 · On December 22, 1947, Arthur Liebehenschel along with 23 of his fellow defendants were sentenced to death by the Polish Supreme People’s Court. On January 24, 1948 at sunrise, he was hanged in Montelupich prison in Krakow.

  6. Arthur Liebehenschel was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes by the Polish government and executed in 1948.

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  8. His successors were SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel (November 1943-May 1944) and SS-Sturmbannführer Richard Baer (May 1944-January 1945). After the first organizational reform of the Auschwitz complex, the commandants of Birkenau (Auschwitz II Concentration Camp) between November 1943 and November 1944 were, first, SS ...

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