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Kurt Becher
Kurt Andreas Ernst Becher (12 September 1909 – 8 August 1995) was an SS ''Untersturmführer'' (lieutenant) and later a ''Standartenführer'' (colonel) who was Commissar of all German concentration camps, and Chief of the Economic Department of the SS Command in Hungary during the German occupation in 1944. He is best known for having traded Jewish lives for money during the Holocaust.
==SS Background==
Becher was born to a wealthy family. He testified during the Nuremberg Trials that he had joined the SS because from 1932 he had been actively engaged in horseback riding, and in 1934, his instructor had advised him to enter the SS cavalry regiment (the ''Reiter-SS''). Hannah Arendt suggests that the only reason Becher stressed this story was that the Nuremberg Tribunal had excluded the ''Reiter-SS'' from its list of criminal organizations.〔Arendt, Hannah. ''Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'', first published 1963, this edition Penguin Books, 1994. p. 141.〕
Becher served as an SS Major in Poland and Russia, as part of the ''SS-Totenkopfverbände'', which perfected the techniques for killing Jews. He was appointed Commissar of all German concentration camps, and Chief of the Economic Department of the SS Command in Hungary, by Heinrich Himmler. The "Economic Department" was tasked with extracting maximal economic value from Jews, which included confiscating goods and property, and selling or using belongings and body parts, including shorn hair and gold extracted from teeth.〔Hecht, Ben. ''Perfidy'', Milah Press, 1999, pp. 67-68.〕
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