1. Hans Loritz was an officer in the Schutzstaffel who was the commandant of several concentration camps in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe.
15 Facts About Hans Loritz
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Hans Loritz was shot down over France, where he was held as a Prisoner of War until 1920.
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Hans Loritz's marriage was dissolved in 1935 and he married for second time in 1936 but in the same year fathered a child with another woman.
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Hans Loritz joined the NSDAP in August 1930 and joined the SS one month later.
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Hans Loritz quickly began to admire and idolize the new camp commandant, Theodor Eicke.
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Hans Loritz made camp rules stricter, interrogated prisoners and ordered torture.
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Hans Loritz was known as one of the most brutal camp commanders at Dachau, personally cruel, he allowed barbaric behavior by the guards.
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Hans Loritz took prisoners to work at his private villa in St Gilgen at the Wolfgangsee.
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In July 1939, Hans Loritz was sent against his will to Graz.
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Hans Loritz immediately tried to return to concentration camp service.
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Hans Loritz became the camp commandant in place of Walter Eisfeld in March 1940 on the orders of Heinrich Himmler.
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Hans Loritz selected prisoners unable to work, who were killed in June 1941 in Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre.
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Hans Loritz became a section leader of the General SS in Klagenfurt.
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Hans Loritz remained until 1942, when he was removed at the suggestion of Oswald Pohl, leader of the SS-WVHA.
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Hans Loritz was then sent to oversee camps in Beisfjord, Elsfjord, Rognan, and Karasjok in northern Norway where Yugoslavian prisoners were used as forced labour to construct roads and military installations.