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
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
during
the Holocaust in occupied Poland
The Holocaust in Poland was part of the European-wide Holocaust organized by Nazi Germany and took place in German-occupied Poland. During the genocide, three million Polish Jews were murdered, half of all Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
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. He was prosecuted at the first
Auschwitz trial.
[Miroslav Kárný: Das Theresienstädter Familienlager (Bllb) in Birkenau (September 1943–Juli 1944), in: Hefte von Auschwitz 20 (1997), S. 154. In German.]
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the
gas chambers.
[Hermann Langbein: ''Menschen in Auschwitz eople of Auschwitz' Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, p 475f.] Buntrock was tried by the
Supreme National Tribunal in
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...
and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Montelupich Prison on 24 January 1948.
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1909 births
1948 deaths
Auschwitz concentration camp personnel
Auschwitz trial executions
Military personnel from Osnabrück
Executed people from Lower Saxony
Romani genocide perpetrators
Waffen-SS personnel
German people convicted of crimes against humanity
Executed mass murderers