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Arnold Büscher (16 December 1899 – 2 August 1949) was a German SS officer. Holding the rank of SS- Obersturmführer, he served as a commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, succeeding Amon Göth, from September 1944 until January 1945.
After Göth’s arrest, the camp passed into the hands of SS-Obersturmführer Arnold Büscher. Though no saint himself, Büscher immediately made life more bearable for the prisoners in his charge by upping their rations and stopping the random hangings and shootings that were a daily feature of camp life under Göth.
Camp administration was assumed by SS-Obersturmführer Arnold Büscher. He improved the inmates' diets by allowing eggs, sugar and powdered milk. Prisoner victims Life in the camp The balcony of Amon Göth's villa in Płaszów. Although Göth was ruthless and would shoot at prisoners, he could not do so from this balcony as the terrain and the ...
Arnold Büscher (16 December 1899, Bad Oeynhausen – date of death unknown, possibly 1949) was a German SS officer. At the rank of SS-Obersturmführer, he was the second and last commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, succeeding Amon Goeth, from September 1944 until about January...
A number of prominent SS figures in the Holocaust also served at Sachsenhausen, included Arnold Buescher, who served at Buchenwald, Plaszow and Neuengammme, Hermann Campe, who also served at Dachau and Natzweiler, Hermann Florstedt, who served at Buchenwald and was commandant of Lublin concentration camp, Adolf Haas, who also served at ...
Arnold Büscher (* 16. Dezember 1899 in Rehme (jetzt Bad Oeynhausen); † 2. August 1949) war ein deutscher KZ-Kommandant. Er war der Leiter der Lagerwache im KZ Plaszow im Zeitraum September 1944 bis etwa Januar 1945.
The commandant ( German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the highest rank and was the most important member of the camp unit.
