Martin Gerken was a German communist and one of the highest-ranking
Kapos in the
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germa ...
. Between April 1, 1945 and the liberation on May 5 of the same year he served as the ''camp's elder'' (german: Lagerältester) 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)
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