"Joseph Kramer" redirects here. For other uses, see Joseph Kramer (disambiguation).
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer, in Celle awaiting trial (August 1945)
Born
(1906-11-10)10 November 1906
Munich, German Empire
Died
13 December 1945(1945-12-13) (aged 39)
Hamelin Prison, Hamelin, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Other names
The Beast of Belsen
Criminal status
Executed
Motive
Nazism
Conviction(s)
War crimes
Trial
Belsen trial
Criminal penalty
Death
Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a Hauptsturmführer and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945). Dubbed The Beast of Belsen by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He was detained by the British Army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes, and hanged on the gallows in the prison at Hamelin by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
JosefKramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a Hauptsturmführer and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944)...
are also referred to as Belsen trials. Officially called the "Trial of JosefKramer and 44 others",[better source needed] the trial began in a Lüneburg gymnasium...
Grese as "the Beautiful Beast" alongside former SS-Hauptsturmführer JosefKramer ("the Beast of Belsen"), the former commandant at Birkenau. After a nine-week...
gassing occurred on August 11, 13, 17, and 19, conducted by commandant JosefKramer, who directed the victims to undress, placed the poison in the ventilation...
II (Birkenau) Fritz Hartjenstein 22 November 1943 8 May 1944 5 months JosefKramer 8 May 1944 25 November 1944 6 months Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Heinrich...
administration building, he served as commandant until 11 November 1943, with JosefKramer as his deputy. Succeeded as commandant by Arthur Liebehenschel, Höss...
Bormann, who were convicted in the Belsen trial, the camp commander JosefKramer, and the concentration camp doctor Fritz Klein. Other executions due...
personnel. The common nickname of Sepp in German for Josef, for such Nazis as Josef Dietrich and Josef Oberhauser, is excluded from this list. The definite...
Empress (1956) – Ceremony Master Nepalek The Old Forester House (1956) – JosefKramer Vater macht Karriere [de] (1957) – Älterer Saaldiener Hoch droben auf...
to Natzweiler concentration camp for gassing by SS-Hauptsturmführer JosefKramer, the Kommandant of the camp. Their corpses were then sent to Hirt in...
at her last post, Bergen-Belsen, near Celle, where she served under JosefKramer, Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath (all of whom had served with her...
1945. From November 1943 until the end of 1944, Fritz Hartjenstein and JosefKramer were responsible for the extermination camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau...
at Lüneburg, the site of the trial of JosefKramer, the Belsen commandant known as the "Beast of Belsen". Kramer had claimed that he did not have sufficient...
trial by the British in the Bergen-Belsen trial, where the Court accused JosefKramer and another 44 people, who worked in Auschwitz and Belsen, of war crimes...
death in Canada. Nazis executed under British jurisdiction, including JosefKramer, Fritz Klein, Irma Grese and Elisabeth Volkenrath, were hanged by Albert...
their conviction, around 200 were hanged there, including Irma Grese and JosefKramer, along with over a dozen of the perpetrators of the Stalag Luft III murders...
concentration camp in January 1945. He remained at the camp with commandant JosefKramer and assisted in handing it over to British troops. Klein was imprisoned...
April 1945 Arrested in 1960; died in prison while awaiting trial in 1963 JosefKramer November 10, 1906 December 13, 1945 39 years, 33 days Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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