The guards included 50 SS men (Schutzstaffel “protection squadron” and SS-Totenkopfverbände "death’s head units") housed in the dining room on the ground floor, and also included many so-called ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche).The Flossenbürg Memorial speaks of 50 SS guards. See entry on the Regensburg subcamp. on gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de. The command leader was SS-Oberscharführer (“senior squad leader”) Ludwig Plagge, a heavy drinker who was considered one of the “most brutal and cruel SS men” and was sentenced to death in the Auschwitz trial in Kraków in January 1947.Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich ("The Encyclopedia of Persons of the Third Reich"): Wer war was vor und nach 1945 ("Who Was What Before and After 1945"). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003, p. 462. His deputy was SS-Oberscharführer Erich Liedtke, who often beat and mistreated the prisoners without cause.Ulrich Fritz: "Regensburg". In: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors ("The Place of Terrors"), Vol. 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. C.H. Beck, Munich, 2006, p. 241. John Demjanjuk, who was convicted of aiding and abetting murder in 2011, is said to have been among the SS guards.Helmut Halter: Stadt unterm Hakenkreuz: Kommunalpolitik in Regensburg während der NS-Zeit ("City Under the Swastika: Local Politics in Regensburg During the Nazi Era"). Universitätsverlag, Regensburg, 1994, p. 378.
