page_title: Fritz Hartjenstein
section_title: Camp officer
hierarchical_section_title: Fritz Hartjenstein / Camp officer
caption_attribution_description: Entrée du fr:camp de concentration du fr:Struthof, en fr:Alsace. En arrière plan se dresse le monument érigé à la mémoire des victimes du nazisme. Photographie prise par un jour de brouillard de juillet 2001 par Medy Sejai.
context_page_description: Friedrich Hartjenstein was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. A member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, he served at various Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. After the Second World War, Hartjenstein was tried and found guilty for murder and crimes against humanity.
context_section_description: Hartjenstein, who was born in Peine, began his SS work at Sachsenhausen in 1938. The following year he was transferred to Niederhagen. In 1941 Hartjenstein  served for a year with the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, a Waffen SS combat division.
  In 1942, he was appointed the commandant of Birkenau. This was the main camp at Auschwitz, which contained the extermination facilities and crematoria. In 1944 Hartjenstein  was appointed commandant of Natzweiler concentration camp in France. In 1945 he went to work at Flossenbürg concentration camp.
caption: Entrance to Natzweiler-Struthof
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