Josef Kramer
Military Person
1906 – 1945
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Who was Josef Kramer?
Josef Kramer was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates, he was a notorious German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He was detained by the British army after World War II, convicted of war crimes and hanged on the gallows in Hamelin prison by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
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- Born
- Nov 10, 1906
Munich - Also known as
- Beast of Belsen
- Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Munich
- Died
- Dec 13, 1945
Hamelin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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