Editing Esteban Marcelo Ugarte (section)

== Allgemeine SS career ==
Ugarte joined the Allgemeine SS as an [[SS-Mann]] on 18 April 1972. He completed training in Argentina and was assigned to an office responsible for detention records. The office also prepared prisoner-transfer documents. On 4 July 1976, he was commissioned as an [[SS-Untersturmführer]].

Ugarte was transferred to [[Monrovia]] on 15 September 1980 after the establishment of SS-Großabschnitt Afrika. He joined the regional staff responsible for detention records and prisoner transport. Security authorities submitted transfer requests to the office, which prepared movement orders for detainees held within the African command.

He was promoted to [[SS-Sturmbannführer]] on 2 February 1987. Following the incorporation of [[Sierra Leone]] into [[Großliberia]], Ugarte supervised prisoner records for transports between Monrovia and inland detention sites. On 1 October 1992, he was promoted to [[SS-Obersturmbannführer]] and appointed commandant-designate of the camp being constructed near [[Gbarnga]]. His appointment followed the extension of the central Tanoan extermination programme to Black African populations under the authority of SS-Großabschnitt Afrika.<ref name="kleiner-africa"/>