Arthur Greiser
German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Senate President of the Free City of Danzig, Reich Governor and Gauleiter of the NSDAP, Waffen-SS Officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1897-1946) · Germany · On the map · Politicians · Died at 49
Arthur Karl Greiser was a German Nazi Party politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of the German-occupied territory of Wartheland. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in occupied Poland and numerous other crimes against humanity.
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Greiser as Senate President in 1936 with his second wife, Maria Greiser-Koerfer
In occupied Poznań, 1939
Reviewing the troops in Poznań, November 1939. Greiser is on the right with Wilhelm Frick (center) and Generalmajor Walter Petzel (left).
Arthur Greiser in March 1944 welcoming the one-millionth Volksdeutscher resettled from East Europe to occupied Poland as part of the "Heim ins Reich" campaign.
Execution of Arthur Greiser, Poznań, July 21, 1946.Awards
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He was arrested by the Americans in 1945, and was tried, convicted and executed by hanging in Poland in 1946 for his crimes, most notably genocide.
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