Crimes & death of Nazi commandant Buchenwald concentration camp - Hermann Pister

Brutal Crimes of Hermann Pister -Bestial Nazi Commandant Buchenwald Concentration Camp - World War 2. Hermann Pister was born on the 21st of February 1885 in Lübeck, then part of the German Empire. He grew up in Switzerland and after completing secondary school he worked as a cabin boy in the Imperial Navy where he remained until 1910. The First World War began on the 28th of July 1914. Pister joined the German Imperial Navy in 1916 and served there until the end of the war as a vice sergeant. The First World War ended on the 11th of November 1918 when the German leaders signed the armistice in the Compiègne Forest in France In the new Weimar Republic, which was the name given to the German government from 1918 to 1933, Pister began an apprenticeship as an auto mechanic and went on to become an automobile salesman and manager.
When Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on the 30th of January 1933, Pister was already a member of the Nazi Party as well as the SS, both of which he had joined one year earlier. In March 1933, less than 2 months after the Nazis took power, the first concentration camp - Dachau - was established. The Nazi camp system began as a system of repression directed against political opponents of the Nazi state. In the early years of the Third Reich, the Nazis imprisoned primarily Communists and Socialists. In about 1935, the regime also began to imprison those whom it designated as racially or biologically inferior, especially the Jews. During World War II, the organization and scale of the Nazi camp system expanded rapidly, and the purpose of the camps evolved beyond imprisonment toward forced labor and outright murder.
Throughout German-occupied Europe, the Germans arrested those who resisted their domination and those they judged to be racially inferior or politically unacceptable. People arrested for resisting German rule were mostly sent to forced labor or concentration camps. The Second World War, which began on the 1st of September 1939, brought unprecedented growth in both the number of camps and the number of prisoners. Within three years the number of prisoners quadrupled, from about 25,000 before the war to about 100,000 in March 1942. The camp population came to include prisoners from almost every European nation. Prisoners in all the concentration camps were literally worked to death. According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners registered in the concentration camps in January 1945.
The Germans deported Jews from all over occupied Europe to extermination camps in Poland, where they were systematically killed, and also to concentration camps, where they were drafted for forced labor which was "extermination through work." Several hundred thousand Roma people and Soviet prisoners of war were also systematically murdered. Part of the Nazi camp system also became Hermann Pister.
In October 1939, one month after the outbreak of the WWII, Pister was given the command of Hinzert concentration camp, which remained mainly autonomous until the 21st of November 1944, when it was administratively linked to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Between 1939 and 1945, 13,600 political prisoners between the ages of 13 and 80 were imprisoned at Hinzert. Many were in transit towards larger concentration camps where most would be killed. However, many prisoners were also executed at Hinzert. Inmates were housed in four barracks, each containing two spaces that in turn contained 26 bunk beds for the projected capacity of 208 prisoners. Later, straw mattresses were added to increase the total capacity to 560. The camp was administered, run, and guarded mainly by the SS, who, according to the Hinzert survivors, were notorious for their brutality and viciousness. Prisoners sometimes had to stand still for hours facing the mast as punishment. The roll call area was also used as a drill and exercise area, where inmates had to jump up and down at 4.30 am to the sound of a drum.
In 1941, Karl Otto Koch was relieved of his position as commandant of Buchenwald and later arrested for embezzlement and other charges. On 1 January 1942 he was replaced by Hermann Pister.
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