English: THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, APRIL 1945 [Official photograph]
WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION
Deutsch: Josef Kramer ( -Dez. 1945) wird mit Fußfesseln durch das KZ Bergen-Belsen geführt.
English: Josef Kramer ( -Dec. 1945), Nazi prison guard, being led in leg irons through the KZ Bergen-Belsen camp. (He was tried and executed in December 1945.)
Josef Kramer, Camp Commandant, photographed in irons at Belsen before being removed to the POW cage at Celle. He was tried and executed for war crimes in December 1945. Kramer joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and worked in concentration camps from 1934 onwards. Kramer became Commandant at Belsen in December 1944, following a period in charge of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.