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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

GESTAPO SS COLONEL: JOSEF ALBERT MEISINGER (SEPTEMBER 14, 1899 TO MARCH 7, 1947)



  

 SS-Standartenführer Meisinger in 1940.
Josef Albert Meisinger (14 September 1899 – 7 March 1947), also known as the Butcher of Warsaw, was a German SS colonel in the Gestapo and Nazi Party member. He was arrested in Japan at the end of World War II, convicted of war crimes and was executed in Warsaw, Poland.

Monday, March 6, 2017

JURGEN STROOP (SEPTEMBER 26, 1895 TO MARCH 6, 1947)



   
Jürgen Stroop in U.S. military custody, 1945
Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop, 26 September 1895, Detmold, Germany – 6 March 1952, Warsaw, Poland) was an SS General during World War II. He is best known for being in command against the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and for writing the Stroop Report, a booklength account of the operation. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine American POWs. After his extradition to the People's Republic of Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and hanged for crimes against humanity.