Oswald Pohl

Oswald Ludwig Pohl 160 listen 160 was a Nazi official and member of the SS. He rose to the rank of SSObergruppenfhrer, and was involved in the administration of Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. He was involved in the Final Solution, the extermination of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. After the war he went into hiding. Pohl was apprehended in 1946, stood trial in 1947, repeatedly appealed his case, and was executed by hanging in 1951.

Pohl was born in DuisburgRuhrort onJune 1892 as the son of blacksmith Hermann Otto Emil Pohl and his wife Auguste Pohl he was the fifth of a total of eight children. In 1912, he became a sailor in the Imperial Navy. During World War I, he served in the Baltic Sea region and the coast of Flanders. Pohl attended a navy school, and became paymaster onApril 1918. OnOctober of the same year, he married.

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