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“BEAST OF BUCHENWALD" LONDON, June 29. The Americans have identified Oberfuehrer Hermann Faster, “the Beast of Buchenwald,” posing as a Wehrmacht officer in a war prisoners’ cage in -Munich, reports the Daily Mail. Pister, who was commandant of Buchenwald, succeeded the even more notorious Koch, whose wife had lampshades made from the skins of murdered prisoners.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21754, 2 July 1945, Page 4
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