Wilhelm Gideon
Wilhelm Gideon | |
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| Born | 15 November 1898 Oldenburg, Lower Saxony |
| Died | 23 February 1977 [citation needed] |
| Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
| Service/ | Schutzstaffel (SS) |
| Years of service | 1933–1945 |
| Rank | Hauptsturmführer |
| Commands held | Gross-Rosen concentration camp |
Wilhelm Gideon (15 November 1898, in
Nazi concentration camp
commandant.
A native of
German Imperial Army.[1]
Gideon enlisted in the
Gideon had been identified by
SS and Police Leader in occupied Denmark until Germany's surrender in 1945. Legal proceedings against Gideon were dismissed in 1962.[2]
Gideon was found [clarification needed] [where?] in 1975 when Israeli historian Tom Segev interviewed him for his book Soldiers of Evil, a study of concentration camp commandants. However, after initially cooperating with Segev, Gideon terminated the interview when he suddenly claimed that he was a different person who happened to be named Wilhelm Gideon rather than the former commandant of Gross-Rosen.[5]
Literature
- Orth, Karin: Die Konzentrationslager-SS. dtv, München 2004, ISBN 3-423-34085-1.
- ISBN 3-499-18826-0.
- ISBN 3-596-16048-0.
References
- ^ Tom Segev, Soldiers of Evil, Berkley Books, 1991, pg. 68
- ^ a b c Wilhelm Gideon profile; accessed 14 March 2022.
- ^ Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide: the SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- ^ Bella Guṭterman, A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish Forced Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camp System, 1940-1945, Berghahn Books, 2008, pg. 75
- ^ Segev, pg. 219
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