First usage of colored triangles. The first commandant, Otto Koch, went on to be commandant at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Majdanek. SS guards trained at Sachsenburg for Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist.—Martin Niemöller
SS commandant villa
