Anton Kaindl (14 July 1902 – 31 August 1948) was an SS-'' Standartenführer'' and commandant of the

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoner ...

from 1943-1945. Kaindl joined the army during the

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in May 1920 and served until May 1932, leaving with the rank of sergeant. He worked briefly for a bank in the city of

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until August 1932, when he took an administrative position with the Reichskuratorium für Jugendertüchtigung (Reich Board for Youth Fitness). He joined the SS in July 1935 (SS no. 241,248) and the

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in May 1937 (party no. 4.390.500). In November 1939, he was assigned an administrative position in the SS-

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Division. He was then transferred to the administrative department of the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps headed by Richard Glücks. Kaindl's next transfer was to Sachsenhausen, where he served as commandant until the evacuation of the camp on 22 April 1945. He was captured by the

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and was arraigned in the Sachsenhausen trial held by the Soviet Military Tribunal in the city hall of

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in October 1947. He was charged along with Sachsenhausen record keeper, Gustav Sorge, punishment Blockführer, Kurt Eccarius, camp doctor,

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, ten other SS officers, one civil servant and two prisoner Kapos, including Paul Sakowski who served as the crematorium foreman and camp hangman from 1941 to 1943. Kaindl was found guilty of war crimes with 11 of the others and was held in the

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for a month. He was sentenced to life in prison with hard labor and sent to the Vorkuta Gulag, where he died in August 1948.

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