Richard Glücks

Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office as "Amt D". As a direct subordinate of Heinrich Himmler, he was responsible for the forced labour of the camp inmates and was the supervisor for the medical practices in the camps, ranging from Nazi human experimentation to the implementation of the "Final Solution", in particular the mass murder of inmates with Zyklon B gas. After Germany capitulated, Glücks committed suicide by swallowing a potassium cyanide capsule.

22 April 1889

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Danni Wyatt • Donald Tusk • Eve Muirhead • Harald Bohr • Henri La Fontaine • Jack Nicholson • Jack Nitzsche • Jan de Hartog • Keith Crisco • Kevin Kiermaier • Laura Gilpin • Mickey Vernon • Paul Davies • Paul Malakwen Kosgei • Richard Diebenkorn • Robert Bárány • Robert Wade-Gery • Sam W. Heads • Yvette Chauviré

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