Fritz Buntrock

Fritz Buntrock
Occupation SS-Unterscharfuehrer
Known for Defendant at the Auschwitz Trial
Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party

Fritz Buntrock (Osnabrück, 8 March 1909 – 24 January 1948, Kraków) was a SS-Unterscharfuehrer (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 January 28, 1948.

References

  1. ↑ Miroslav Kárný: Das Theresienstädter Familienlager (Bllb) in Birkenau (September 1943–Juli 1944), in: Hefte von Auschwitz 20 (1997), S. 154. In German.
  2. ↑ Hermann Langbein: Menschen in Auschwitz [People of Auschwitz] Ullstein, Frankfurt 1980, p 475f.
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