Oswald Pohl, SS Lieutenant General and chief administrator of the Nazi concentration camp system, photographed shortly after his execution by hanging on June 7, 1951 [235X290].

SS Lieutenant General Oswald Pohl started out as a paymaster in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, smart, organized, and good with money. After the war, like many veterans, he bought into the Dolchstoßlegende (the “stab-in-the-back” myth), blaming Germany’s defeat on politicians and Jews. He joined the Nazi Party and, in 1933, came [...]