Nikolaus Herbet

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Nikolaus Herbet (* March 20, 1889 ; † unknown) was a German concentration camp commander in the Warsaw concentration camp from September 1943 to around July 1944. He succeeded Wilhelm Göcke in this function .

Herbet belonged to the SS from mid-March 1927 (SS No. 2,394) and rose to SS-Untersturmführer in this Nazi organization in 1934 . He was a volunteer in the SS. After he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 68.494) at the beginning of April 1927 , he was employed full-time at a publisher of this party in Dresden . Herbet rose to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1938. After the beginning of the Second World War , he was deployed from 1940 as a member of the Waffen SS, initially in Mauthausen concentration camp . From September 1943 to July 1944 he was commandant of the Warsaw concentration camp.

Herbet was arrested together with the head of the protective custody camp in Warsaw and the camp elder in the course of a corruption affair in this concentration camp in the spring of 1944. They were accused of extorting valuables from the inmates. All three accused were interned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . However, Herbet was able to return to concentration camp service soon afterwards.

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  1. ^ A b Wolfgang Benz: The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. , Volume 8, p. 105
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. , Volume 8, p. 121
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. , Volume 7, p. 101
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SURNAME Herbet, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concentration camp commander
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1889
DATE OF DEATH 20th century