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Josef Kramer
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German SS officer, concentration camp commandant, and convicted war criminal (1906–1945)
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1906-11-10 ) 10 November 1906, Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
- Died
- 13 December 1945 (1945-12-13) (aged 39), Hamelin Prison , Allied-occupied Germany
- Other name
- The Beast of Belsen
- Criminal status
- Executed by hanging
- Motive
- Nazism
- Conviction
- War crimes
- Trial
- Belsen trial
- Criminal penalty
- Death
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- Josef Kramer
- date of birth
- 1906-11-10
- date of death
- 1945-12-13
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- name in native language
- Josef Kramer
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Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a Hauptsturmführer in the SS and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and Bergen Belsen (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945) concentration camps. 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.
Early life