• Hans Eicke (1 December 1885 – 22 August 1947) was a German athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Eicke was born and died in Berlin...
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    Heinrich Himmler appointed SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke the Kommandant of the Dachau concentration camp. Eicke requested a permanent unit that would be subordinate...
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    of SS-Obergruppenführer on 1 October 1941. Waffen-SS commander Theodor Eicke was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS on 20 April...
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    slogan's use was implemented[when?] by Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Theodor Eicke at Dachau concentration camp. From Dachau, it was copied by the Nazi officer...
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    time, Eicke and Lippert returned to Röhm's cell at 14:50 to find him standing, with his bare chest puffed out in a gesture of defiance. Eicke and Lippert...
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  • on the squad, running 400 metres. He followed Arthur Hoffmann and Hans Eicke, each of whom ran 200 metres, and was followed by Hanns Braun running the...
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    The camp's layout and building plans were developed by Commandant Theodor Eicke and were applied to all later camps. He had a separate, secure camp near...
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    1933, Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke the second commandant of Dachau, which became the model followed by other camps. Eicke drafted the Disciplinary and...
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    SS-Brigadeführer Theodor Eicke July 1934 – March 1935: SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Schmidt March 1935 – March 1936: SS-Standartenführer Otto Reich April 1936 –...
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    operatives in 1960, tried in Israel and executed on 1 June 1962. Theodor Eicke – An SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the executioners of Ernst Röhm. A leading...
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    while Hitler considered his future. On 1 July, at Hitler's behest, Theodor Eicke, Commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, and his SS adjutant Michael...
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  • Ehmke Carl Ehrenberg Arthur Ehrhardt Erich Ehrlinger Adolf Eichmann Theodor Eicke August Eigruber Hans Eisele (physician) Walter Eisfeld Paul Freiherr von...
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    severely maltreated by two SS men. By order of the camp's commandant Theodor Eicke, Kahr was taken to the camp's detention building, known as the "bunker"...
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    Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 5./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 "Theodor Eicke" 16 June 1944 — — Walter Fiedler Heer 03-HGefreiter Telephone operator in...
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    leader. His mentor at Dachau was the then SS-brigadier general Theodor Eicke, the reorganizer of the Nazi concentration camp system. In 1938, Höss was...
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    Pohl by 1938, which pitted him against his contemporary and peer, Theodor Eicke, particularly on matters of administration, budget, and building projects...
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    considered a part of the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division then forming under Theodor Eicke. Later, it provided coast guard services in Danzig. On 8 September members...
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    Regiments-Gruppe 425 (Scherzer) As commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Theodor Eicke" (Scherzer) As Oberleutnant of the Reserves and Staffelkapitän of the 6...
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    camp Commandants Hilmar Wäckerle (22 March 1933 – 26 June 1933) Theodor Eicke (26 June 1933 – 4 July 1934) Alexander Reiner [de] (4 July 1934 – 22 October...
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    September 1908 3 April 1913 <4 years, 6 months 40 von Eicke und Pollwitz, GeorgOberstleutnant Georg von Eicke und Pollwitz 4 April 1913 11 December 1913 <8 months...
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    organisational structure Eicke instituted at Dachau stood as the model for all later concentration camps. After 1934, Eicke was named commander of the...
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  • europäischer Freiheitsbewegungen. Bd. 3), pp. 139–159, hier p. 149. Niels Weise: Eicke. Eine SS-Karriere zwischen Nervenklinik, KZ-System und Waffen-SS. Zugl.:...
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    1945; since then they have been considered lost. Historians Dr. Reinhard Otto and Rolf Keller succeeded in locating these card index documents; some fragments...
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  • overseas dignitaries due to its proximity to Berlin. For that reason, Theodor Eicke recommended Rödl's removal from his position in 1937. Rödl finally began...
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  • Eastern division of the foreign ministry, the anti-Nazi politician Werner Otto von Hentig, supported the policy of settling Jews in Palestine. Hentig believed...
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    succeeded Karl Otto Koch as commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was soon being put forward as a candidate for promotion by Theodor Eicke, who had...
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    techniques for the terrorisation of prisoners. His teacher was Theodor Eicke, the camp commandant since June 1933 and shaper of the so-called "Dachau...
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    commander, Theodor Eicke be dismissed if evidence could be found that British prisoners had been mistreated or killed by SS forces. Eicke made an excuse to...
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    The Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, under SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke, which fielded four infantry and one cavalry Death's Head Standarten, comprising...
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  • SS employee. A protégé of the Inspector of Concentration Camps Theodor Eicke, Sauer was assigned to the SS guard unit (Wachtruppe) of Oranienburg concentration...
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