Fritz Buntrock
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Fritz Buntrock | |
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Born | March 8, 1909 |
Died | January 24, 1948 (aged 38) |
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Occupation | SS-Unterscharfuehrer |
Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
Criminal status | Executed |
Motive | Nazism |
Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity |
Trial | Auschwitz trial |
Criminal penalty | Death |
Fritz Buntrock (8 March 1909 – 24 January 1948) was a German war criminal and SS-Unterscharführer (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was prosecuted at the first Auschwitz trial.[1]
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the gas chambers.[2] Buntrock was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Montelupich Prison on 24 January 1948.
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