Richard Baer was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 1945, commandant of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
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Enno Lolling, the director of Office DIII "Sanitation and Hygiene" in Department D "Concentration camps Inspectorate" of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office; with Richard Baer, commandant of Auschwitz I, and his adjutant Karl-Friedrich Höcker (left to right)
From left to right: Richard Baer, Josef Mengele and Rudolf Höss (1944)About this person
Richard Baer was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 1945, commandant of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Following the war, Baer lived under an assumed name to avoid prosecution but was recognized and arrested in December 1960. He died in detention before he could stand trial.
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