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English: THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, APRIL 1945 [Official photograph] WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION
Deutsch: Josef Kramer ( -Dez. 1945) wird mit Fußfesseln durch das KZ Bergen-Belsen geführt.
English: Josef Kramer ( -Dec. 1945), Nazi prison guard, being led in leg irons through the KZ Bergen-Belsen camp. (He was tried and executed in December 1945.)
Date Taken on 17 April 1945
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This photograph BU 3749 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Imperial War Museum collection as BU 3749
Author Malindine E G (Capt) No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit, British Army
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Josef Kramer, Camp Commandant, photographed in irons at Belsen before being removed to the POW cage at Celle. He was tried and executed for war crimes in December 1945. Kramer joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and worked in concentration camps from 1934 onwards. Kramer became Commandant at Belsen in December 1944, following a period in charge of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

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