September 1938. After the Munich Agreement forces Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany, crowds of ethnic Germans welcome Adolf Hitler’s troops with flags and flowers. Among them is Roland Puhr, a Sudeten German who soon joins the SS and becomes one of the brutal perpetrators in the Nazi camp system.
Assigned to the SS-Totenkopfverbände at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Puhr rises to the rank of SS-Unterscharführer and later serves as deputy commandant. At the camp he participates in the shootings of Soviet prisoners of war and personally murders dozens of inmates. Survivors describe his extreme brutality, including the savage beating that led to the death of Austrian prosecutor Karl Tuppy.
Puhr later serves with SS construction brigades and becomes the first commandant of Lager Sylt in the Channel Islands, where Jewish forced labourers are used to build German fortifications.
After the war he hides under forged papers in East Germany, but in 1963 he is exposed, arrested, and tried for war crimes. Convicted of murders and brutal mistreatment of prisoners at Sachsenhausen, Roland Puhr finally faces justice.
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“Nazi SS Officer Roland Puhr: Killer at Sachsenhausen Camp & His Reckoning”
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Assigned to the SS-Totenkopfverbände at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Puhr rises to the rank of SS-Unterscharführer and later serves as deputy commandant. At the camp he participates in the shootings of Soviet prisoners of war and personally murders dozens of inmates. Survivors describe his extreme brutality, including the savage beating that led to the death of Austrian prosecutor Karl Tuppy.
Puhr later serves with SS construction brigades and becomes the first commandant of Lager Sylt in the Channel Islands, where Jewish forced labourers are used to build German fortifications.
After the war he hides under forged papers in East Germany, but in 1963 he is exposed, arrested, and tried for war crimes. Convicted of murders and brutal mistreatment of prisoners at Sachsenhausen, Roland Puhr finally faces justice.
🎥 Watch the full documentary on WorldHistory.tv
“Nazi SS Officer Roland Puhr: Killer at Sachsenhausen Camp & His Reckoning”
🔗 Link in bio & comments 👇
#holocausthistory #ww2history #warcrimes #neverforget #sachsenhausen
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00:00Kurt Widwer, who was a commander of the labor detachments,
00:03described Poore as a totally brutal and scheming person.
00:07Heavy labor, hunger, and violence were the main causes of the 111 deaths
00:13registered in the first five months of the existence of the SS construction brigade near Dusseldorf.
00:19Embezzlement resulted in minimal food rations. Alphonse Kupka, a former prisoner, said the
00:24following. The food was extraordinarily poor. Roland Poore, with the help of the cook,
00:30expropriated food so that the physical constitution of the whole detachment was very poor.
00:35The sick and enfeebled prisoners received no medical care, and despite their condition,
00:40they had to go to work. In the evenings, the weakest were mistreated and were often forced
00:46during the winter of 1942 to 1943 to spend the nights outdoors.
00:52Poore oversaw all these atrocities and actively participated in them.
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