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Oswald Ludwig Pohl (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ⓘ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the genocide of the European Jews. After the war ...
Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Endlösung (“Final Solution”). Pohl was born on June 30 1892, in Duisburg-Ruhrort as the son of blacksmith Hermann Otto Emil Pohl and his wife Auguste Pohl (née Seifert); he ...
Oswald Pohl was tried on November 3, 1947, by an American Military Tribunal and sentenced to death. After spending three and a half years in a Landsberg prison death cell, he was finally hanged as a war criminal on June 8, 1951. Sources. R.S. Wistrich, Who’s Who in Nazi Germany, published by Routledge, London and New York 1995. Photographs – USHMM.
The Military Governor confirmed the revised sentences on April 30 and May 11, 1949. The proceeding's chief defendant, head of the Economic and Administrative Main Office, Oswald Pohl, was executed on June 8, 1951. Author (s): United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
In the Pohl case, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl and 17 other SS officers employed by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (abbreviated in German as SS-WVHA), were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the time of the Nazi regime.
DefendantFunctionSentence Ofnov 3, 1947Sentence Ofaug 11, 1948Head of the WVHA, General of the ...Death by hangingConfirmedDeputy chief of the WVHA, Lt. General of ...Life imprisonmentConfirmedDeputy chief of the WVHA, Lt. General of ...Death by hangingReduced to life imprisonmentHeinz Karl Fanslau [de; pl]Deputy chief of the WVHA, Brigadier Maj.25 yearsReduced to 20 yearsPeople also ask
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Pohl, Oswald. 00:00. Oswald Pohl in Nuremberg 1947, with scabbed fresh wounds all over his left cheek from torture. Oswald Pohl (30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951), SS Obergruppenführer, headed the SS offices that, in early 1942, were consolidated as the SS’s Economic and Administrative Main Office ( Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt ).
Oswald Ludwig Pohl was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the genocide of the European Jews. After the war, Pohl went into hiding; he was apprehended in 1946.
