Cold-Blooded: Max Koegel and the Camps of Death
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After the German defeat at Stalingrad shattered Hitler’s dreams of conquest, the war turned into a brutal retreat—but the suffering in the Nazi camps only intensified. Max Koegel, an ambitious SS officer, rose from humble origins to command some of the deadliest camps in history, including Majdanek and Flossenbürg. He installed gas chambers, ordered executions, and oversaw extermination by starvation, labor, and disease. This is the untold story of one of the most ruthless camp commandants of the Third Reich.
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