Occupation SS-Unterscharfuehrer Name Fritz Buntrock | Died 1948 Political party Nazi Party | |
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Known for Defendant at the Auschwitz Trial | ||
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.
Due to his brutal treatment of prisoners he was nicknamed "Bulldog" in the camp. Buntrock supervised the gas chambers. Buntrock was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Montelupich Prison on 28 January 1948.
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