Jürgen Stroop
German SS and police general and convicted war criminal (1895-1952) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 56
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Something wrong?Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942-1943 and 1943-1944. He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942-1945.
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Bishop, later Cardinal, Count Clemens von Galen
1943 Jurgen Stroop signed document for his personal Infantry Badge received earlier.
Brigadefuhrer Jürgen Stroop (center, in a field cap) with his men in the burning of Warsaw Ghetto, 1943
A well-known photograph showing the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943
Great Synagogue of Warsaw, c. 1910
The cover page of the "American copy" of The Stroop Report with International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg markings
The second copy of The Stroop Report from the Institute of National Remembrance in PolandAwards
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Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942-1943 and 1943-1944. He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942-1945. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.
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