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Rakers, Bernhard

Born in Sögel, Emsland, in 1905, apprenticed as a baker, joined NSDAP and SA in March 1933, guard in concentration camps in Emsland in Feb. 1934, head cook in kitchen of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1936–42, SS-Hauptscharführer as of 1940,  Kommandoführer in 1943, then roll-call leader in Buna/Monowitz concentration camp, sentenced to life in prison in 1953 for murder of prisoners, pardoned in 1971, died in 1980.

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