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Josef Blösche

1912 - 1969

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Josef Blösche (12 February 1912 – 29 July 1969) was a German war criminal and a member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and SD during World War II. Blösche personally executed many Jews, participating in several massacres, and helped send many more to their deaths in extermination camps. Blösche became known to the world because he was photographed five times with SS forces that suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as published in the Stroop Report. The most famous photograph portrays a boy surrendering in the foreground, and Blösche as the SS man who is facing the boy with a sub-machine gun in hand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Blösche has received more than 379,732 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Josef Blösche is the 131st most popular extremist (down from 127th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 268th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Josef Blösche ranks 131 out of 283Before him are David Berkowitz, Alexandros Koryzis, Stephen Paddock, Rodney Alcala, Joaquin Murrieta, and Rafael Caro Quintero. After him are Robert Stroud, Albert Anastasia, Charles Whitman, Fred West, Jalaluddin Haqqani, and Richard Chase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Josef Blösche ranks 131Before him are Folco Lulli, Gil Evans, Kathleen Ferrier, Fritz Klingenberg, Margaret Scriven, and Martha Scott. After him are Jure Francetić, Jean Françaix, Boris Kidrič, Kristina Söderbaum, Laurean Rugambwa, and Günther Lützow. Among people deceased in 1969, Josef Blösche ranks 83Before him are Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Rómulo Gallegos, Thelma Ritter, Domingo Tejera, Coleman Hawkins, and Ivar Ballangrud. After him are Leonard Woolf, Carlos Marighella, Mark Bernes, Georges Catroux, Peter van Eyck, and Krzysztof Komeda.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Blösche ranks 284 out of 1,200Before him are Alois Hába (1893), Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1246), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), and Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204). After him are Vítězslav Nezval (1900), Josef Sudek (1896), Karel Škréta (1610), Elisabeth of Bohemia (1358), Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), and Tomáš Špidlík (1919).

Among EXTREMISTS In Czechia

Among extremists born in Czechia, Josef Blösche ranks 1