From Dachau Guard to Death Camps Commandant: Josef Kramer
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On April 15, 1945, British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and uncovered horrors beyond imagination—piles of unburied corpses, tens of thousands of starving prisoners, and a cesspit of disease and death. Among those arrested was Josef Kramer, a fanatical SS officer whose brutal career stretched from Dachau to Auschwitz. Known as “The Beast of Belsen”, he oversaw gassings, torture, and mass murder, inflicting cruelty without remorse. This is the story of his rise through Hitler’s killing machine—and the justice that finally caught him.
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