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Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman ^[e]
SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II ^[e]

WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]
- Oswald Pohl [r]: SS-Obergruppenfuehrer, Waffen SS; Head of the SS WVHA; and its Amtsgruppe W; executed by verdict of the Pohl Case (NMT) ^[e]
- Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps ^[e]
  - Theodor Eicke [r]: Nazi Gruppenfuehrer; first commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp and became Inspector of Concentration Camps; with Michael Lippert, personally killed Ernst Roehm during Night of the Long Knives purge; commanded SS Totenkopf Division 1939-1943, when killed in a plane crash ^[e]
  - Richard Gluecks [r]: SS-Gruppenfuehrer; Inspector of Concentration Camps (1939-1945); believed to have committed suicide at war's end ^[e]
RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD ^[e]

Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. ^[e]
Madjanek Concentration Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description