Karl Eberhard Schöngarth
German Nazi SS general and war criminal (1903–1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (22 April 1903 – 16 May 1946) was a German lawyer and SS-Brigadeführer in Nazi Germany. He was a war criminal who perpetrated mass murder and genocide in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was originally planned. After the war, Schöngarth and six others were tried for murdering an American pilot, Americo S. Galle, who was shot down over the Netherlands in November 1944. They were all found guilty. Schöngarth and four others were sentenced to death and executed in 1946.
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Born | Karl Georg Eberhard Schöngarth (1903-04-22)22 April 1903 |
Died | 16 May 1946(1946-05-16) (aged 43) |
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Known for | Wannsee Conference participant Massacre of Lwów professors |
Political party | Nazi Party |
Criminal status | Executed |
Motive | Nazism |
Conviction(s) | War crimes |
Criminal penalty | Death |
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Victims | 10,000+ |
Span of crimes | 1941–1945 |
Country | Poland and Netherlands |
Military career | |
Allegiance | Weimar Republic Nazi Germany |
Service/ | Reichswehr Schutzstaffel (SS) |
Years of service | 1924 1933–1945 |
Rank | SS-Brigadeführer |
Commands held | Einsatzgruppe z.b.V (1941) SiPo & SD Commander, General Government (1941–1943) SiPo & SD Commander (1944–1945) & Acting HSSPF (1945), Netherlands |
Awards | War Merit Cross, 1st and 2nd class, with Swords |
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