Hans Kammler, Nazi Architect of Auschwitz, Defector to the US?

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Hans Kammler was among the worst of the Nazis. He was responsible for the construction of Hitler’s slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring that epidemic diseases would complement the work of the gas chambers. So pleased was Hitler by his work that he put him in charge of the Nazi rocket and nuclear weapons programs. At the end of the war he had more power than SS chief Heinrich Himmler. Even among the SS he was feared for his brutish nature.

So why has the world never heard of him? Today I'm speaking with Dean Reuter, author of the new book “The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil” he and collaborators Colm Lowery and Keith Chester spent a combined decades tracking down Kammler's trail. Long believed to have committed suicide, they discovered that he may have escaped exposure and justice through a secret deal with America.

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1:12.0	One of the worst Nazis in the Third Reich was General Hans Kuhn's
1:17.0	comeler. He was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites in concentration camps.
1:22.0	He personally oversaw a lot of the construction and the death toll of Auschwitz in other places
1:26.0	wouldn't have been nearly as high if he hadn't engineered them to such precision.
1:30.0	He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring the epidemic diseases
1:35.0	would complement the work of gas chain and the construction of the building.
1:39.0	He personally oversaw a lot of the construction and the death toll of Auschwitz in other places
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