Martin Gerken was a German communist and one of the highest-ranking
Kapos in the
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 f ...
. Between April 1, 1945 and the liberation on May 5 of the same year he served as the ''camp's elder'' () of the sub-camp of Gusen.
[Dobosiewicz Stanislaw, Mauthausen-Gusen oboz zaglady, Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, Warszawa 1979]
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Kapos (concentration camp)
German communists