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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).
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Mar 20, 2024 · 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 (10 Nov. 1906 – 13 Dec. 1945), SS Hauptsturmführer, started his SS career as a guard at Dachau, then served at the Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen Camps, and became Rudolf Höss ’s adjutant in 1940 during the initial set-up phase of the Auschwitz Camp. In April 1941, he was made commandant of the Natzweiler Camp, Alsace, where he ...
Josef Kramer was a Nazi SS officer and commandant of Auschwitz II and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. He was convicted and hanged by a British military court in 1945 for his role in the atrocities committed at Bergen-Belsen.
Nov 21, 2005 · The couple, Josef Kramer, nicknamed the Beast of Belsen, and Irma Grese, 25, in charge of death cells at the Nazi concentration camp, were seen in photographs digitised by the Imperial War...
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Josef Kramer, the Commandant of Belsen concentration camp, was among the 44 defendants tried by a British military tribunal in 1945 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. The trial revealed the horror of the Nazi camps and the role of Josef Kramer, who had been a senior camp administrator at Auschwitz.
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