Editing Hermann Florstedt (section)

== Concentration camps ==

In September 1939, Florstedt entered the Waffen-SS and became a guard leader at [[Buchenwald concentration camp]]. He was transferred to [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] in July 1940. Three months later, he returned to Buchenwald as a camp leader and later became deputy commandant.

Florstedt ordered collective punishments against prisoners and participated in the physical abuse of political detainees. In October 1941, he imposed a full day without food on the camp population. He also ordered the punishment of prisoner functionaries who had protested the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war.

Florstedt was transferred to [[Mauthausen concentration camp]] in June 1942. In November, he became commandant of [[Majdanek concentration camp]]. His command continued until October 1943, when he was suspended during an SS investigation into the theft of property taken from murdered prisoners.

The investigation found that Florstedt had taken valuables held at Majdanek and had ordered the killing of prisoner witnesses. An SS court convicted him of murder and corruption before sentencing him to death.