World War II
Kammler eventually became Oswald Pohl's deputy at the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA), which oversaw Amtsgruppe D (Amt D), the Administration of the concentration camp system, and was also Chief of Amt C, which designed and constructed all of the concentration and extermination camps. In this latter capacity he oversaw the installation of cremation facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as part of the camp's conversion to an extermination camp.
During his term as Pohl's deputy, Kammler was directly involved on resettlement operations related to Jews and other people.
Following the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, Heinrich Himmler assigned him to oversee the demolition of the ghetto in retaliation.
At the end of the war he was responsible for the massive tunnel building at Jonastal, a unfinished project with an unclear purpose till now. This construction cost the lives of many inmates of Buchenwald camp.
Kammler did not stop on simply exploiting concentration camp inmates. At his request, Joachim Mrugowsky readied a study on how the duration of work influenced the effectiveness of inmates.
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