Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – 15 April 1945), member of the

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, was a German SS commander, war criminal and convicted

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. He became the third commander of

Majdanek concentration camp Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, ...

in October 1942. Florstedt was convicted of corruption and executed by the regime in April 1945.

World War II

Florstedt joined the SS in 1933 achieving the rank of

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in 1938. He served at the

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from 1940 till 1942. He was appointed the third chief of Majdanek extermination camp in October 1942 to replace ''SS-Sturmbannführer''

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. Florstedt was investigated by SS Judge

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and charged by the ''

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'' (SS) with embezzlement and arbitrary killing of prisoner witnesses. Florstedt was one of two Majdanek commandants put on trial by the SS in the course of the camp operation. He was charged with corruption (wholesale stealing from the

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); he had access to valuables stolen from

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killed at

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s of Belzec, Sobibor and

Treblinka Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The cam ...

. These valuables were stored and processed at Majdanek. He was replaced by the interim commander

Martin Gottfried Weiss Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß ( – 29 May 1946), was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of Neuengamme ...

. Florstedt was executed by the SS

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