Verantwortlich für Massenmord: Zwei Oberpfälzer waren Kommandanten im KZ

Zwei von 46 SS-Lagerkommandanten kommen aus der Oberpfalz. Martin Gottfried Weiß aus Weiden und Richard Baer aus Floß. Was trieb sie an, sich an Massenmord in erster Reihe zu beteiligen?

von Christine Ascherl

Am Sonntag vor 75 Jahren begann in Dachau der erste Kriegsverbrecherprozess. Hauptangeklagter war der Weidener Martin Gottfried Weiß (Mitte), Kommandant verschiedener Vernichtungslager im Dritten Reich.

Bild: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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