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Oswald Ludwig Pohl (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ⓘ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. 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 genocide of the European Jews.
Oswald Ludwig Pohl war ein deutscher SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. Pohl war als Leiter des SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamtes maßgeblich an der Durchführung des Holocaust beteiligt. Als Kriegsverbrecher wurde Pohl während des Nürnberger Prozesses gegen das Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt der SS zum Tode verurteilt und ...
Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Endlösung (“Final Solution”).
Oswald Pohl, who received more support than any of his fellow prisoners, although his crimes (i.e., the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto) were among the worst, had great success with a booklet called The Way to God in which he explained his reason for converting to the Catholic faith.
Oswald Pohl was tried on November 3, 1947, by an American Military Tribunal and sentenced to death. After spending three and a half years in a Landsberg prison death cell, he was finally hanged as a war criminal on June 8, 1951.
Oswald Pohl was a naval officer and a high-ranking SS official who oversaw the administration and economy of the SS and the concentration camps. He was also involved in the exploitation of Jewish property and the use of forced labor during World War II.
United States v. Pohl, et al. In January 1947, Military Tribunal II, which had been created by the US Military Government for Germany on December 14, 1946, took on the trial of Oswald Pohl and the WVHA, the fourth Subsequent Nuremberg Proceeding.
