Oswald Pohl
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Oswald Pohl as a defendant before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal
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30 June 1892 Duisburg-Ruhrort, Rhine Province, Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 8 June 1951 (aged 58) Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Occupation | Naval paymaster, political operative, Nazi official |
| Criminal charge | Genocide |
| Criminal penalty | Death by hanging |
| Criminal status | Carried out |
| Motive | Nazism |
| Conviction(s) | War crimes and crimes against humanity committed as the business administrator of the Nazi concentration camp system |
Oswald Ludwig Pohl 
listen (30 June 1892 – 8 June 1951) was a Nazi official and member of the SS. He rose to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the extermination of Jews. After the war he went into hiding. Pohl was apprehended in 1946. He stood trial in 1947, was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, repeatedly appealed his case, and was executed by hanging in 1951.
Pohl was born in Duisburg-Ruhrort on 30 June 1892 as the son of blacksmith, Hermann Otto Emil Pohl and his wife Auguste Pohl (née Seifert); he was the fifth of a total of eight children. His childhood was financially secure enough that he attended a Realgymnasium where he studied classical Greek and Latin texts. From what Pohl claimed, he always wanted to study science but his father did not have the means to send him straight to university. In 1912, he became a sailor in the Imperial Navy. During World War I, he served in the Baltic Sea region and the coast of Flanders. Pohl attended a navy school, and became paymaster on 1 April 1918. On 30 October of the same year, he married.
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