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this date, April 5, 1945, SS Colonel Karl-Otto Koch was executed by firing squad.
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Karl-Otto Koch
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Karl-Otto Koch (German: [kɔχ]; August 2, 1897 – April 5, 1945), a Standartenführer
(Colonel) in the German Schutzstaffel (SS), was the first commandant of
the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September
1941 until August 1942 Koch also served as the first commandant of the Majdanek
concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and
money from murdered Jews.
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