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Kremer, Johann Paul, 1883-1965

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Personal name headingKremer, Johann Paul, 1883-1965
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Variant(s)Kremer, Johann, 1883-1965
Birth date1883-12-26
Death date1965-01-08
Place of birthNorth Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Place of deathMünster in Westfalen (Germany)
AffiliationUniversität Münster
Germany. Wehrmacht
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Found inOświęcim w oczach ... 1976 (a.e.) t.p. (Kremer) p. 12 (Johann Paul Kremer) p. 298 (b. 12/26/1883)
KL Auschwitz seen by the SS, 1983, c1972: CIP t.p. (Kremer) p. facing t.p. (Johann Kremer)
Wikipedia, September 1, 2015 (Johann Kremer; Johann Paul Kremer; born December 26, 1883 in Stelberg bei Köln; died January 8, 1965 in Münster; professor of anatomy and human genetics at Münster University who joined the Wehrmacht on May 20, 1941; he served in the SS in the Auschwitz concentration camp as a physician during World War II, from 30 August 1942 to 18 November 1942; a member of the NSDAP, he was involved in Nazi human experimentation on the prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau; he was sentenced to death in the Auschwitz Trial, but this sentence was later commuted to one of life imprisonment; he was released in 1958; Kremer received notoriety for his diary, which recounted mundane day to day activities interspersed with entries of his witnessing murder and depravity through gassings and special actions)
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