The database also provides the SS staff members’ personal data, including date and place of birth, service number, date of arrival to and departure from the camp, education and citizenship.

"During World War II, Nazi propaganda and later a number of West German historians claimed that the Waffen’s SS members were just run-of-the-mill soldiers from the German armed forces (Wehrmacht).

Józef Paczynski, Polish political prisoner, Auschwitz Within a short time, Höss and other SS members found the ideal location for a new make-shift gas chambers where people could be murdered in ...