Execution of Fritz Buntrock
- German Nazi Guard at Auschwitz & Liquidation of “Gypsy Family Camp”

12 May 2022

Category: Male Nazi Guards

Fritz Buntrock joined the SS and in January 1937 he joined the Nazi Party. From December 1941 until August 1944, he belonged to the staff of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and prisoners gave him the nickname “Bulldog “because he was sadistic, ruthless and he enjoyed beating and torturing the inmates.

Liquidation of “Gypsy Family Camp”

At first, Buntrock worked as a guard supervising the working teams outside the camp where he minimum working day numbered 11 hours. He was often seen beating the poor inmates with his bullwhip without any reason. Buntrock also took part in the liquidation of the so-called “ On the 2nd of August 1944 , 2,897 surviving men, women, and children from this Gypsy family camp were murdered in the gas chambers at Birkenau.

After the end of the war, Fritz Buntrock was finally to face justice and pay for his crimes. He was tried at the Auschwitz Trial which began in November, 1947 and lasted one month. On the 22nd December, 1947, the Polish Supreme National Tribunal in Krakow sentenced Buntrock to death by hanging.

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