Josef Kramer - "belzeski beast." Biography, work camps, and photos

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In this article we will talk about whose hands killed thousands of innocent people before and during world war II. This is Josef Kramer, the commandant of the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, which the prisoners for his ferocity called “belzeski beast”. Moreover, he was personally responsible for the deaths of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people.

Josef Kramer

Biography Kramer

Joseph was born 10 November 1906, near Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Republic. In 1931, while 25-year-old boy, Kramer joins the NSDAP (national socialist German workers party). Full-blooded German in 1932 he comes even in the ranks of the SS, and then works in the prison security, and then, when the Second world war, becomes a warden and commandant of various concentration camps.

It is important to note the fact that a boy brought up on the ideals of nationalism, therefore, in principle, different and could not be in terms of his relationship to the people. And even without special education, Josef Kramer served in the secret service of Hitler. For 11 years he had a brilliant career, succeeding a large number of concentration camps:

  • 1934 – Dachau;
  • 1934-1936 – Esterwegen;
  • 1936-1937 – Dachau;
  • 1937-1939 – Mauthausen;
  • 1940 – Auschwitz;
  • 1940-1944 – Natzweiler-Struthof;
  • 1944 – Auschwitz;
  • 1944-1945 – Bergen-Belsen.

In the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, which was located on the territory of modern Saxony, Kramer and a few dozen of his «colleagues» arrested 21st army group, the allied forces of Britain and Canada. “Belenkomu the beast” was charged with war crimes, for which the British military court sentenced him to capital punishment. The process took place on 17 November 1945. Kramer was hanged in the middle of December 1945 in Hamelin prison.

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Josef Kramer - commandant of the concentration camp

Josef Kramer: the rise of the “career” ladder

The Greatest success, Kramer has achieved with the advent of the Second world war. It was ruthless, determined, calculating and tough guard, who did not spare anyone. Hitler in his numerous army needed such workers. He personally encouraged the acts of Cramer and tried to thank the young guard for faithful service. This happened with surprising regularity, because almost every day Hitler reported on “rough” the work of Kramer. Joseph was not afraid to calculate the force, was not afraid to kill someone accidentally: for him to take the life of a Jew was the same as slap a fly.

In each of 6 concentration camps, where he had visited, Josef Kramer left his mark. Precisely because of his ruthlessness he received one promotion after another. First, in the Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen and later at Auschwitz.

Josef Kramer - "belzeski beast"

Auschwitz and subsequently transferred to the Bergen-Belsen

In 1940, Kramer transferred to a concentration camp and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. About a year where he works as a supervisor under the supervision of Rudolf Hess-the local commandant. Soon he and Joseph takes a similar position in Natzweiler-Struthof. This increase made it even more cruel, because he felt stronger. At that time, his hands had killed at least 80 people. And not just killed, but brutally. Probably this figure is much more. Josef Kramer (“belzeski beast”) personally was in charge of all gas chambers of death and torture rooms. Making fun of people was his favorite pastime.

After the transfer to Bergen-Belsen, Kramer commanded not only the prisoners but also the guards. For preserved in the archives of the photographs you can often see Josef next to fair-haired young girl. This is the Irma Dream, which at the time of the service in a concentration camp was only 20 years old. She is credited with numerous novels with guarding concentration camps, including by Kramer. It is difficult to make comparisons, but the girl was probably no less brutal than the “belzeski beast”. Maybe that is why they agreed? Women prisoners called it ‘angel of death”, she could spend hours to mock the girls, oppressing them, both physically and morally.

Josef Kramer - photo

Personal characteristics

Josef Kramer (commandant of the concentration camp) so imbued with the idea of nationalism and hatred of other peoples, he was very easy to work with prisoners. It was strong, cruel and ruthless man who in silence, without batting an eye, could take the life of a child, a pregnant woman or an old lady, not to mention the men. He had an incredible imagination and can easily have invented increasingly sophisticated methods of torture. And he was so cold-blooded and fearless before the enemy that met allied troops among the mountains of corpses of prisoners.

The Arrest of Cramer and other officers

In 1945 the Anglo-canadian connection gets to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. As has been described above, Josef Kramer (photo below) met “guests”, while all the rest scattered. Then arrested 44 supervisor. In November they were a justice, on the 13th of December many of those arrested were hanged in the prison of Hameln. But there were those officers who have received only a couple of yearsof imprisonment, served his sentence, and then with quiet soul went will.

Josef Kramer - a diary

Josef Kramer's diary

Many are trying to find personal records “Belenkova beast”. However, the existence of the diary information. In General, the entries were many guards, commandants and other “employees” concentration camps, such as the namesake of Kramer – Josef Mengele. He was a doctor in Auschwitz, famous for the fact that conducted experiments on prisoners. But Kramer, apparently, did not want to leave documentary evidence of their inhuman acts.


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