(1904-10-17)17 October 1904 Langenau (now a part of Kietrz, Province of Silesia, German Empire[1]
Died
23 August 1988(1988-08-23) (aged 83) Leiferde, Lower Saxony, West Germany[1]
Criminal status
Deceased
Motive
Nazism
Conviction(s)
Murder (475 counts) Accessory to murder (2730 counts)
Trial
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment with hard labour
Details
Victims
Thousands (possibly as high as 14,000)
Span of crimes
1941–1945
Country
German-occupied Poland
Location(s)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Rank
Oberscharführer, SS
Battles/wars
World War II
Josef Klehr (17 October 1904 – 23 August 1988) was an SS-Oberscharführer (master sergeant), supervisor in several Nazi concentration camps and head of the SS disinfection commando at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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JosefKlehr (17 October 1904 – 23 August 1988) was an SS-Oberscharführer (master sergeant), supervisor in several Nazi concentration camps and head of...
three more SS men who'd served at Auschwitz were tried: Wilhelm Burger, Josef Erber, and Gerhard Neubert. All three men were found guilty. Erber was sentenced...
Goebel (assistant to Clauberg) Medical service staff SS-Oberscharführer JosefKlehr (senior medical staff NCO) SS-Unterscharführer Adolf Theuer (sanitary...
the gas chambers. For example, on 29 August 1942 in Auschwitz, he and JosefKlehr selected 746 prisoners to be gassed under the guise of fighting a typhus...
former SS personnel have criticised Holocaust denial. SS-Oberscharführer JosefKlehr said that anyone who maintains that nobody was gassed at Auschwitz must...
cannot be buried in silence". Zyklon B handler and SS-Oberscharführer JosefKlehr said that anyone who maintains that nobody was gassed at Auschwitz must...
of 1942 he came down with typhus and was selected by Nazi doctor Dr. JosefKlehr to be included in the list of patients to be killed in the gas chambers...
life imprisonment Oswald Kaduk – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment JosefKlehr – Guilty, sentenced to life plus 15 years' imprisonment Franz Lucas –...
SS-Unterscharführer Hans Koch and SS-Oberscharführer JosefKlehr. During the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, Klehr, the chief of the Desinfektionskommando, testified...
Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer. JosefKlehr, 83, German Nazi SS-Oberscharführer, Nazi concentration camp supervisor...
Gas chamber executioners Erich Bauer Kurt Bolender Lorenz Hackenholt JosefKlehr Hans Koch Herbert Lange Otto Moll Ludwig Plagge Adolf Theuer Physicians...
and Guenter Bierbrauer. Interviews with Auschwitz perpetrators (Josef Erber, JosefKlehr, Gottlieb Muzikant), July 12, 1977, Schwalmstadt Prison, Hessen...
Gas chamber executioners Erich Bauer Kurt Bolender Lorenz Hackenholt JosefKlehr Hans Koch Herbert Lange Otto Moll Ludwig Plagge Adolf Theuer Physicians...
Trials in the 1960s. During the trial, he sparred with Nazi war criminal, JosefKlehr. The transcript of the exchange was published (in the original German...
Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Kyrill M. Anderson, The Soviet World of American Communism, Yale University Press (1998); ISBN 0300071507; p. 74. Klehr,...
established in 1924 would become a nexus of espionage. Historian Harvey Klehr describes that the American businessman Armand Hammer "met Lenin in 1921...
April 21, 1996. Barron, Operation SOLO, pg. 4. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage. San Francisco: Encounter...
enemy within, 1830-1970 (1990) Klehr, Harvey. The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade Basic Books, 1984. Klehr, Harvey and John Earl Haynes...
original on October 31, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018. Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University...
Nicolas Berggruen, BS '81". NYU Stern. May 11, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2017. Klehr, Harvey; Radosh, Ronald (1996). The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism...
- 1939. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-231-06532-0. Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American...
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Nazi Germany
Schutzstaffel