Theresienstadt’s Illusion and Death: Nazi Commandant Siegfried Seidl
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In November 1941, Reinhard Heydrich establishes the Theresienstadt Ghetto — a fortress town turned into a façade of “model Jewish life” that hides the machinery of extermination. Behind this cruel deception stands Siegfried Seidl, the camp’s first commandant, whose cold efficiency and brutality condemn tens of thousands to death. This is the story of the man who built and ruled a ghetto designed to deceive the world — and destroy its people.
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