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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).
Josef Kramer was a German commander of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1944–45), notorious for his cruelty. Joining the Nazi Party on Dec. 1, 1931, Kramer volunteered for the SS the following year. He served at various camps, including Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Dachau, and commanded Birkenau.
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Josef Kramer had been camp commandant at Bergen-Belsen and before that at Auschwitz. Of the other defendants, 12 were kapos, 16 female SS members and 16 male SS members. Although the SS was an all-male organisation, women were able to enlist as members of the SS-Gefolge, a form of civilian employee.
Josef Kramer was an SS officer who commanded several Nazi camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Natzweiler. He was arrested by the British and tortured into confessing to false crimes, then executed in 1945.
Josef Kramer, an only child, was born on November 10, 1906, and raised in Munich , Germany in a middle-class family. His parents, Theodore and Maria Kramer, brought him up as a “strict Roman Catholic.”. In 1915, the family moved from Munich to Augsburg, where Kramer attended school. He began an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1920.
Josef Kramer was the commandant of Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated by the British in April 1945. He and 44 other former camp staff were tried by a British military tribunal in Lüneburg, where they faced charges of crimes of war and crimes against citizens of the Allied nations.
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The commandant of Bergen-Belsen, Josef Kramer, and fourty-four others were tried by a British war crimes court at Luneburg, from the 17th August 1945 to the 17th November 1945. Thirty of the accused were found guilty, of these, twelve were sentenced to death and hanged, Nineteen to various terms of imprisonment.
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