Josef Klehr
Josef Klehr (17 October 1904 – 23 August 1988) was an SS-Oberscharführer (master sergeant), supervisor in several Nazi concentration camps and head of the SS disinfection commando at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Josef Klehr | |
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Klehr in custody of the Frankfurt Police | |
Born | Langenau (now a part of Kietrz, Province of Silesia, German Empire | 17 October 1904
Died | 23 August 1988 83) Leiferde, Lower Saxony, West Germany | (aged
Criminal status | Deceased |
Motive | Nazism |
Conviction(s) | Murder (475 counts) Accessory to murder (2730 counts) |
Trial | Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials |
Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment with hard labour |
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Victims | Thousands (possibly as high as 14,000) |
Span of crimes | 1941–1945 |
Country | German-occupied Poland |
Location(s) | Auschwitz concentration camp |
Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
Service/ | Schutzstaffel |
Rank | Oberscharführer, SS |
Battles/wars | World War II |
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