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): Bhama Srinivasan • Carl Lindner Jr. • Charles Mingus • Eric Fenby • Georg Lurich • Harold Jeffreys • Immanuel Kant • Jan de Hartog • Keith Crisco • Mary Prior • Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford • Wu Peifu

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