Oswald Pohl
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Oswald Pohl is one of the few men directly involved with the massacre of almost all of the Jewish race during World War Two. Adolf Hitler had decreed that the Jews be deported and exterminated. Pohl was an SS member and follower of the Nazi ideology, who was put in charge of the management of concentration camps throughout Germany and its conquered territories.
Pohl had been a member of the German navy during the first world war. Afterwards, he dropped out of school to become a member of the newly-formed Nazi party. Soon after his joining, he became chief of the administration department under Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS. Within few years, he went up the ranks and was known as SS-Standartenführer. This meant he was in charge of the administration of concentration camps for enemies of the Nazi party.
He became Chief Reich treasurer by the start of World War Two. He was in charge of ordering the deaths of Jews in his camps. He personally witnessed murders on a large scale. Later in the war, he was made commander of the Waffen-SS, an infantry unit of the SS. These troops were responsible for committing war crimes on and off the battlefield. Under his supervision, they rarely took prisoners and did not obey the rules of the Geneva Convention.
After the war, he went into hiding, but was soon arrested by British troops. In 1947, he was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. His sentence was carried out and this wretched murderer was hanged on June 7, 1951.
