Albert Forster
German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter of the NSDAP and Reich Governor in Danzig (1902-1952) · Germany · On the map · Politicians · Died at 49
Albert Maria Forster was a German Nazi Party politician, member of the SS and war criminal.
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![Albert Forster with Arthur Greiser, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Hacker [de] and Wilhelm Koppe in the late 1930s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Greiser%2C_von_dem_Bach%2C_Forster%2C_Hacker%2C_Koppe.jpg/500px-Greiser%2C_von_dem_Bach%2C_Forster%2C_Hacker%2C_Koppe.jpg)
Albert Forster with Arthur Greiser, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Hacker [de] and Wilhelm Koppe in the late 1930s
Albert Forster (right, standing in car beside the Reich Labour Service leader Konstantin Hierl saluting), reviewing a parade during the festival of the Danzig Labour Service on 4 June 1939.
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Albert Forster making a speech in 1939
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During the Second World War, under his administration as the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Danzig-West Prussia, the local non-German populations of Poles and Jews were classified as sub-human and subjected to extermination campaigns involving ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and in the case of some Poles with German ancestry, forceful Germanisation. Forster was directly responsible for the extermination of non-Germans and was a strong supporter of Polish genocide, which he had advocated before the war. Forster was tried, convicted and hanged in Warsaw for his crimes, after Germany was defeated.
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Erich von dem Bach-ZelewskiBoth received Danzig Cross 1st Class
Erich KochBoth received Danzig Cross 1st Class
Fritz TodtBoth received Danzig Cross 1st Class
Arthur GreiserBoth received Danzig Cross 1st Class
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Wilhelm RediessBoth received Danzig Cross 1st Class