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Karl Rahm was born on 2 April, 1907 in Klosterneuburg, Austria-Hungary, is an An executed nazi concentration camp commandant. Discover Karl Rahm's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

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Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 2 April, 1907
Birthday 2 April
Birthplace Klosterneuburg, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 30 April, 1947
Died Place Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia
Nationality Hungary

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1907

Karl Rahm (2 April 1907 – 30 April 1947) was a Sturmbannführer (major) in the German Schutzstaffel who, from February 1944 to May 1945, served as the commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Rahm was the third and final commander of the camp, succeeding Siegfried Seidl and Anton Burger.

He was hanged for war crimes.

Rahm was born in 1907 in the city of Klosterneuburg, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1920

He apprenticed as a toolmaker and worked for a time in Vienna, where during the 1920s he was exposed to the activities of the Austrian Nazi Party.

1930

He became a member of the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the underground Austrian SS at the same time.

1938

In 1938, after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, Rahm became an SS officer attached to SS-Oberabschnitt Donau under the command of Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

His brother Franz was deported to a concentration camp as a Communist.

1939

At the start of World War II in 1939, Rahm was an SS-Obersturmführer in the Allgemeine-SS.

Applying for transfer to full-time SS duties, Rahm was attached to the Gestapo and assigned to the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, where he served under Adolf Eichmann.

1940

In 1940, he was transferred to Prague into the same office, as a deputy of Hans Günther.

1941

In March 1941, Rahm was briefly sent to the Netherlands together with Günther, to set up the same institution here, which however failed.

1944

Rahm was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in February 1944 and ordered to assume duties as Kommandant (commander) of the Theresienstadt camp.

One of his first duties was to oversee the camp "beautification project" as a prelude for orchestrating the infamous show-tour of the concentration camp to the International Red Cross (IRC).

The affair was part of a much larger scheme to influence world opinion that Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were well treated.

After the IRC visit Rahm supervised the creation of a propaganda film, Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet (Terezin: A Documentary Film of the Jewish Resettlement), that was to be shown in neutral countries.

During his time as Kommandant, Rahm oversaw mass deportations of Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp, the heaviest volume of which occurred in the fall of 1944, after the IRC visit and the making of the propaganda film.

18,000 people were deported within one month.

Theresienstadt had imprisoned prominent artists, musicians, and intellectuals of the era, some of whom died in Theresienstadt or subsequently in Auschwitz.

Rahm was known for his cynical and rash character; he frequently beat prisoners himself and oversaw torture sessions.

On the other hand, Rahm appears to have had an interesting, almost cordial relationship with some Jewish inmates, especially those who shared his working-class Viennese background.

He further was known to spare some Jews from deportation (albeit in return for a bribe) as well as on occasion referring to members of the Theresienstadt Judenrat in the German tense of Sie (indicating respect) instead of du, even in front of other SS officers.

1945

Rahm evacuated Theresienstadt on May 5, 1945, along with the last of the SS personnel.

1947

He was captured shortly afterward by American forces in Austria and extradited in 1947 to Czechoslovakia.

Put on trial, Rahm was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.

Rahm was hanged on April 30, 1947, four hours after his guilty verdict had been handed down by the Czech court.

In the mini-series War and Remembrance, Rahm is portrayed by British actor Robert Stephens.

John Collin portrayed Rahm in the miniseries Holocaust.