September 26, 1895 - Jürgen Stroop
His name is most closely associated with the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, an operation he commanded with deliberate thoroughness and documented in a self-congratulatory report — bound in leather, illustrated with photographs — that he presented to Heinrich Himmler. That report later served as evidence against him at Nuremberg. As SS and Police Leader across occupied Poland and Greece, he oversaw mass deportations and executions on a significant scale, operating within a system he helped enforce at its most brutal point of implementation.
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Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop, 26 September 1895 – 6 March 1952) was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 (in Poland) and 1943–1944 (in Greece). He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942–1945 (equivalent to a Heer Generalleutnant/Lt-Gen in the Wehrmacht). He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.
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