Fritz Buntrock
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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.
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