Grave of Hannes Eisele (Located after publication)
Grave of Hannes Eisele at the Old German Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt. He died in Cairo on May 3, 1967 after escaping from Germany following his release from a Life sentence.
Grave of SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth, Belzec and Field Chief of Operation Reinhard
Grave of SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth, kommandant of Belzec and field chief of Operation Reinhard. Wirth was suposedly ambushed and killed by partisans near Trieste, but is that actually what happened?
Grave of SS-Untersturmführer Gottfried Schwarz, Belzec
Grave for SS-Untersturmführer Gottfried Schwarz at Costermano German Military Cemetery. Were Operation Reinhard officers put in harm's way after serving at extermination camps to ensure their silence?
Grave of SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Reichleitner, Sobibór
Grave of SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Reichleitner (who served at Sobibór) at the German military cemetery in Costermano, Italy. Graves of Operation Reinhard officers were discovered after The Camp Men was published. The book postulates that officers in this operation were far more likely to die later in combat.
Waffen-SS General Jürgen Stroop on Trial for Warsaw Ghetto
Jürgen Stroop on trial
SS-Standartenführer Arthur Rödl, Lichtenburg, Sachsenburg, Buchenwald & Gross-Rosen
SS-Standartenführer Arthur Rödl served in four concentration camps, commanding Lichtenburg and Gross-Rosen, before committing suicide in April 1945.
Iconic Photo of the Selection Ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
The selection ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II). The column on the left will head directly to the gas chambers. The column on the right will enter the camp and be worked to death. Tall officer right front (wearing peaked cap) appears to be Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious physician that experimented on twins. Mengele escaped post-war justice and fled to South America, where it is almost certain that he died of natural causes in 1979.
Officers and Non-commissioned Officers at the Belzec Extermination Camp
Belzec Extermination Camp Staff
(1) SS-Rottenführer Fritz Tauscher, (2) SS-Rottenführer Karl Gringer, (3) SS-Rottenführer Ernst Zierke, (4) SS-Hauptscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt, (5) Polizei-Wachtmeister Artur Dachsel, (6) SS-Rottenführer Heinrich Barbl.
SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele, Auschwitz & Gross-Rosen
SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele; Mengele served in the 5th Waffen-SS Division Wiking, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class, before transferring to Auschwitz and subsequently Gross-Rosen. After the war, many German sources attempted to separate the frontline SS from those that served in the camps. That was an incorrect assertion as hundreds of SS officers transferred back and forth between the two.
SS-Obersturmführer Rudolf Suttrop and Fellow SS Officers at Gross-Rosen
SS-Obersturmführer Rudolf Suttrop (left) and fellow SS officers at Gross-Rosen concentration camp.