Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German paramilitary commander in charge of, and personally involved in progressive annihilation of the Polish nation, its culture, its heritage and its wealth. Long before the war he was a high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government, giving him command of all police and security forces in German-occupied Poland. In this capacity, he organized and supervised numerous crimes against humanity and had major responsibility for the German genocide of the Polish nation: the extermination of six million Poles (three million of them Polish Jews) and massive destruction, degradation and impoverishment of the Polish state. Read more on Wikipedia

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger was a German SS officer who served as the General Commissioner of the General Government in occupied Poland during World War II. He was responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Polish Jews and Poles.