Short Josef Kramer biography: One of the most notorious nazi guards Josef Kramer started his career in concentration camps as a guard at Dachau in 1934. In April 1941 he was named Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Here he personally carried out gassing of over 80 Jewish men and Women whose bodies were sent to the Strasbourg University Institute of Anatomy as a part of Jewish skeleton collection. On May 8, 1944 he became the camp commander At Auschwitz Birkenau where he managed the gassings of new transports. He escaped from the camp before the arrival of Allied forces and became the commander of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Here he was known as “ the Beast of Belsen” . The prisoners were terrified of the morning arrivals because Kramer always chose a few individuals, which he beat brutally, set dogs on prisoners or left them standing in the mud until the evening count. When he got to know that the allies were approaching, Kramer turned around completely. In order to avoid death sentence after the war, he tried to find food for hungry and typhoid prisoners…however, it it not help. Kramer was imprisoned by British forces shortly after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945 and tried in the Belsen trial together with 44 other camp staff. The trial which lasted from September to November 1945 sentenced him to death for crimes against humanity. He was 39 when he was executed by hanging on December 13, 1945.

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