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Karl Chmielewski was born on the 16th of July 1903 in Frankfurt am Main then part of the German Empire. He left school in 1918 without graduating and then moved to Munich where he trained to be a wood sculptor. He then opened his own business but due to the economic crisis in the late 1920’s he had to close it. He got married, had one son but struggled financially and did odd jobs to support his family.
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. By the time the Nazis came to power Chmielewski had already been a member of the SS, which he had joined in 1932 and in March 1933 he also became a member of the Nazi Party. Whilst at the SS he worked as a staff member of Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS. His fanatical devotion to the Nazi cause paid off for Chmielewski, as he quickly climbed the ladder of the SS apparatus and in 1935, he was transferred to Columbia concentration camp to serve on the commandant’s staff.
Columbia concentration camp was established by the Nazis in July 1933 in Berlin and was filled primarily with political prisoners. It was notorious for the torture meted out to its detainees, most of whom were Communists, Social Democrats and Jews.
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