Dachau’s Darkest Hour: Martin Gottfried Weiss Exposed
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On 29 April 1945, U.S. troops entered Dachau—the first Nazi concentration camp—and were met with a nightmare beyond imagination: piles of skeletal corpses, railway cars filled with rotting bodies, and 30,000 starved survivors on the brink of death. At the center of this horror stood Martin Gottfried Weiss, an SS officer who rose through the Nazi camp system to command Dachau, Neuengamme, and Majdanek. He oversaw executions, slave labor, and deportations to gas chambers—and took part in the Nazi T4 euthanasia murders that killed disabled children and adults. This is the story of Weiss—his rise inside the SS, his brutal crimes, and the justice he could not escape.
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