Fritz Buntrock: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Removed redundant categories |
Doikaytgay (talk | contribs) Added "Nazi" descriptor |
||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
| trial = Auschwitz trial |
| trial = Auschwitz trial |
||
}} |
}} |
||
'''Fritz Buntrock''' (8 March 1909 – 24 January 1948) was a German [[War crime|war criminal]] and [[SS-Unterscharführer]] (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during [[the Holocaust in occupied Poland]]. He was prosecuted at the first [[Auschwitz trial]].<ref name =de.wikiref>Miroslav Kárný: Das Theresienstädter Familienlager (Bllb) in Birkenau (September 1943–Juli 1944), in: Hefte von Auschwitz 20 (1997), S. 154. In German.</ref> |
'''Fritz Buntrock''' (8 March 1909 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi German [[War crime|war criminal]] and [[SS-Unterscharführer]] (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during [[the Holocaust in occupied Poland]]. He was prosecuted at the first [[Auschwitz trial]].<ref name =de.wikiref>Miroslav Kárný: Das Theresienstädter Familienlager (Bllb) in Birkenau (September 1943–Juli 1944), in: Hefte von Auschwitz 20 (1997), S. 154. In German.</ref> |
||
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the [[gas chamber]]s.<ref>Hermann Langbein: ''Menschen in Auschwitz [People of Auschwitz]'' Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, p 475f.</ref> Buntrock was tried by the [[Supreme National Tribunal]] in [[Kraków]] and [[sentenced to death]]. He was hanged in [[Montelupich Prison]] on 24 January 1948. |
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the [[gas chamber]]s.<ref>Hermann Langbein: ''Menschen in Auschwitz [People of Auschwitz]'' Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, p 475f.</ref> Buntrock was tried by the [[Supreme National Tribunal]] in [[Kraków]] and [[sentenced to death]]. He was hanged in [[Montelupich Prison]] on 24 January 1948. |
||
Latest revision as of 08:36, 30 October 2023
Fritz Buntrock | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | March 8, 1909 |
| Died | January 24, 1948 (aged 38) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Occupation | SS-Unterscharfuehrer |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Motive | Nazism |
| Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity |
| Trial | Auschwitz trial |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Fritz Buntrock (8 March 1909 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi German war criminal and SS-Unterscharführer (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was prosecuted at the first Auschwitz trial.[1]
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the gas chambers.[2] Buntrock was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Montelupich Prison on 24 January 1948.