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The first part of the series "Perpetrators in Dachau Concentration Camp" is about the beginning of SS rule in Dachau concentration camp. Under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, the SS experienced an unprecedented rise since its founding in 1925. In April 1933, the SS took over the guarding of Dachau concentration camp and played a key role in the murder of Ernst Röhm and other SA members. The second commandant, Theodor Eicke, created momentous structures in the concentration camp and in the SS that are considered the foundations of the concentration camp system during the Nazi regime. The other commandants of Dachau concentration camp are also examples of the unscrupulous implementation of the SS's limitless brutality and tyranny.