sentences:  The camp was discovered March 17, 1945 by reconnaissance units of the 94th Infantry Division.Only a handful of prisoners were still in the camp at that time.On October 9, 1939, "SS Standartenführer" Hermann Pister assumed command over the camp, a position he held until December 1941 when he took over the command of the Buchenwald concentration camp and was replaced by "SS Hauptsturmführer" Egon Zill.