| 词条 | Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger |
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|name= Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger |birth_date={{birth date|1894|5|8|df=y}} |death_date={{death date and age|1945|5|10|1894|5|8|df=y}} |image=Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm.jpg |caption= |birth_place=Straßburg, German Empire |death_place=Eggelsberg, Allied-occupied Austria |known_for=War crimes and crimes against humanity, including establishment of concentration camps and mass murder | module = {{Infobox military person |embed=yes | embed_title = SS career | allegiance = {{flag|Nazi Germany}} | branch = SS and Waffen-SS |rank= SS-Obergruppenführer |servicenumber= |commands=SS and Police Leader Ost SS Division Nord |awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross }} }} Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894[1] – 10 May 1945) was a Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Higher SS and Police Leader[2] in the General Government in German-occupied Poland and in that capacity he organized and supervised numerous acts of crimes against humanity and had a major responsibility for the Holocaust. At the end of the war, he committed suicide. CareerKrüger was born into a military family in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany (nowadays in France) in 1894; he left school before graduating to begin a military career as a cadet in military schools in Karlsruhe and Gross-Lichterfelde. In June 1914, Krüger was commissioned a second lieutenant in the German Army when World War I broke out. During the course of the war, he was wounded three times and awarded the 1st and 2nd class Iron Crosses. In August 1919, he joined the Freikorps von Lützow, which he left in March 1920.[3] Afterwards he returned to civilian employment and got married. Activities in SA and SSWhile working at a refuse company, he probably met Kurt Daluege, who was an engineer at the company at that time. He later on became SS commander in Berlin and leader of the Ordnungspolizei ("order police") or Orpo.[4] The two men soon formed a friendship. In November 1929, Krüger joined the NSDAP (as member 171,199) ; in February 1931, he also joined the SS (6,123),[5] which he left in April to transfer to the SA. With the help of Daluege, Krüger instantly acquired the SA rank and the power necessary to conduct reforms of the SA Formation East. He was promoted to SA-Gruppenführer in 1932 and joined Ernst Röhm's personal staff. In June 1933, Krüger was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer and appointed chief of the Ausbildungswesen ("training", AW).[6] Cooperating closely with the Reichswehr, he used his new position to school the SA's recruits (an estimated 250,000) to become unit leaders. Krüger was not caught in the Night of the Long Knives, in which Röhm and many other high-ranking SA members were killed, and it has been speculated that his switch from the SS to the SA was only for pragmatic reasons, especially in the light of Krüger transferring the SA armouries of which he was in charge to the Reichswehr as soon as the purge began. Afterwards, Krüger re-entered the SS while still keeping his SA rank. In February 1936, he was appointed inspector of border guard units as well as Adolf Hitler's personal representative at a variety of formal and informal NSDAP events. Crimes in PolandOn 4 October 1939, Heinrich Himmler, appointed him to act as Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF East) (Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer) in the part of German-occupied Poland called the General Government. Krüger thus held one of the highest posts in occupied Poland. On 11 November 1939, on the orders of Krüger, several hundred Jews were shot to death by German policemen at Ostrów Mazowiecka in northeastern Poland, after digging their own graves following a fire which Jews were blamed for starting; this “action” at Ostrów Mazowiecka was one of the first systematic mass murders of Eastern European Jews during the war. [7] During the first months of the war in Poland, he was one of the coordinators of Action AB - the mass murder by shooting of Polish intelligence clay, which was performed by Ordnungspolizei or ethnic Germans (Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz). The victims were mainly University lecturers, high-rank policemen, managing staff of the Polish State Railways, notable Catholic priests, internationally-known sportsmen (vide Janusz Kusociński), judges, teachers, social workers, senior administrative officials or other members of Polish intellectual elite. {{Further|Palmiry massacre|Massacres in Piaśnica}}Already in November 1939, Krüger has fulfilled Hitler's personal order, and 184 professors of Jagiellonian University were arrested and deported on a cattle train to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Less than 50 of them survived the war. From the very beginning he introduced the terror on a large scale. For every killed German in General Government by Home Army, ten random Polish civilians were shot. Regular arrests of Polish inhabitants of Warsaw, during the street Razzia (Polish: łapanka) and transporting them to the III Reich to do the slave labor for German industry, or straight to concentration camps, were organized on his orders. The deportation to the concentration camp was practically equal to the death sentence. One of the soldiers from units subordinated to Krüger: SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) Karl Fritzsch, nota bene the deputy (Schutzhaftlagerführer) Auschwitz commander, once said to a new transport of Polish prisoners: You came here not on holidays in Zoppot, but to the German concentration camp, from which the only way out is through the chimney. If you do not accept that, you can go straight on the wires. If Jews are in the transport, they have a right to live no longer than two weeks, Catholic priests - a month, the rest - three months. [8] (...) For us, all of you are not the human beings, but a pile of dung (...). For such enemies of the Third Reich as you, the Germans will have no respect and no mercy. You will forget about your wives, children and families. Here, all of you will die like a dogs... The collective responsibility was the new law introduced by SS. If someone in the family committed an act against the new rules (for example: failure to comply with the curfew), all the members of the family were sent to concentration camp. In the case, when a serious disobedience was committed by a farmer, the whole village was under process of pacification (mass execution). Due to harsh politics of the occupants, the shortage of the food and medications in the cities and towns was extremal. The Poles were starving (average food allocation amounted to 2,600 calories for Germans, 700 for Poles and 400 for Jews). The worst situation was in the ghettos, where the mortality was much higher than among free Poles. Farmers in GG were obliged to deliver draconian amount of grain, meat, milk and potatoes, which were sent straight to Germany. No pay was given to the victims. Just in the year 1942–1943 around 633,000 tons of the grain were confiscated from Polish villages. At the end of 1944 nearly 388,000 tons of potatoes were stolen. The contingents were taken by force and in the whole process military or para-military forces were used, acting on orders of local SS or police commander. In the case of refusal to deliver on time, a severe punishments like beatings or arrests were applied. Some of them were resulting in sending to a concentration camps. All sorts of repressions were introduced, including the death penalty (without formal accusation or a lawful trial). To terrorize the population - on SS commanders' orders - public executions by shooting or hanging were conducted. The systematic process of kindnappig around 200,000 children from Polish families for further Germanisation was also Krüger's domain. People disabled mentally or with Down syndrome were secretly killed by the authorities (mainly by Sicherheitspolizei). Later, the gas vans were invented by German doctor of chemistry and SS-Untersturmführer August Becker (not subordinated to Krüger), to make the whole process faster, more discreet and taking the burden of participating in a mass shootings from ordinary soldiers. Krüger supervised the action of destroying Polish historical buildings (without military significance), cultural sites and in general Polish culture - both by stealing the art works or - if they were related to Polish history - burning some of them on the spot (vide: medieval synagogue). More than 500,000 of Polish and international (paintings by da Vinci, Raphael or Rembrandt) piece of arts were stolen. Most of them never come back to Poland after the war. Some of the goods - crucial to Polish cultural heritage like Battle of Grunwald or Prussian Homage, were hidden in a local farms. If they were seized be the occupants, they would be destroyed as anti-German. {{Further|Polish culture during World War II|World War II looting of Poland}}All Polish theatres were disbanded, likewise all universities were shut, and the secondary schools were teaching only basics. Lessons of history, geography and the Polish literature ceased to be performed. The primary education in the countryside was not allowed during the next five years, leaving - in 1945 - a couple of million teenagers, barely able to write and read. In Galicia for every book given to the German authorities, a bottle of alcohol was the pay (one of the assumptions of the Generalplan Ost). The plan was originating from Otto von Bismarck's operations against - among others - Poles, mailny in Provinz Posen (Greater Poland) in XIX century. As the highest commander in charge he looked after the execution of Aktion Erntefest (Harvest Festival) in district of Lublin, when during 1 day in November 1943 SS, Order Police and the Ukrainian Sonderdienst shot to death in mass killings more than 83,000 Jews. Krüger's soldiers, hand in hand with Order Police, Einsatzgruppen and Wehrmacht was conducting during a few years time, the genocide program of quelling guerrilla activity, so-called: "anti-partisan" fighting in the General Government. During these operations, which meant to be against Polish bandits, as the Germans called partisans, the murders of women and children were carried out on the daily basis. For a help given to the partisans by local farmers and their families, the entire villages were burnt to the ashes with all inhabitants. {{Further|Pacification actions in German-occupied Poland}}Such disciplinary campaigns were a commonplace in Poland under German occupation - more than 300 Polish villages were destroyed (within the borders after 1945). In the most of cases, before the fire was set to the village, the peasants were gathered in the biggest village building, and burnt alive. Among other deeds committed by Krüger were: responsibility for eliminating rebellions in the extermination camps, setting up forced labour camps, the employment of police and SS in the deportations of Jews from ghettos in General Government to extermination camps, and the driving out (ethnic cleansing) of over 116,000 Polish farmers (30 thousands of them were children) from the area around Zamość,[9] known as Aktion Zamosc. Most of the children were sent to concentrations camps, labour camps and blonde and enough young to the III Reich for Germanisation, or to do a slave work on German farms. Only 800 Children of Zamość were successfully reclaimed after the war. Disagreements with governor general Hans Frank led to Krüger's dismissal on 9 November 1943.[10] He was replaced by Wilhelm Koppe. Due to Krüger, Koppe and their sodiers and policemen, altogether more than 6 million Poles (2.9 million of them were Polish Jews) were killed in gas chambers, in force labour camps, during the mass shootings, from hunger, disease, cold or because of mandatory expulsions from the houses or farms, and transportation of these empty-handed victims on the bare fields of General Government. Almost the entire population of Polish Jews was exterminated. Travelling Roma were treated by German authority equally like Jews (Romani genocide). The economical downfall of the Polish industry, the railway network, the agriculture, the forestry and total destruction of the country (the retreating Germans blew up Polish sea port in Gdynia) were not in connection with the military actions only. Most of the victims have perished due to political doctrine, classifying all the Slavic nations as subhumans, and other administrative and compulsory orders and restrictions set up by the new government, with SS-Obergruppenführer Krüger as the most senior commander of SS and Police in German-occupied Poland. The Polish Secret State ordered his death, but an assassination attempt on 20 April 1943 in Kraków failed when two bombs hurled at his car missed the target. Six months later, he wrote in a letter, "I have lost honour and reputation due to my four year struggle in the GG (General Government) (Ich habe für meinen vierjährigen Kampf im GG Ehre und Reputation verloren).[11] Later career and suicideFrom November 1943 until April 1944 Krüger served with the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. While ostensibly engaged in anti-partisan actions in Yugoslavia, this unit became notorious for committing atrocities against the civilian population.[12] Later from June to August Krüger took over the command over the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in northern Finland. From August 1944 until February 1945 Krüger was commanding general of the V SS Mountain Corps. In February 1945 he was Himmler's representative at the German southeast front and in April and May 1945 he was commander of a combat unit of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) at Army Group South (known as Army Group Ostmark after 1 May 1945). At the end of the war Krüger committed suicide in Upper Austria.[13] Awards
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ReferencesCitations1. ^Döring 2001, p. 600. 2. ^Birn 1986, p. 72. 3. ^Bundesarchiv Freiburg, MSG/2/13583, Kriegstagebuch der Leutnant Fried.-Wilh. Krüger 4. ^Thompson 2000, p. 324. 5. ^Friedmann 1995, p. 2. 6. ^Thilo Vogelsang, “Der Chef des Ausbildungswesens (Chef AW)”, in : Gutachten des Institus für Zeitgeschichte, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1966, page 154 7. ^{{cite book |last= |first= |editor1-first=Marilyn |editor1-last=Harran|date=2000 |title= The Holocaust Chronicle |location= |publisher= Publications International |pages=178|isbn= 978-0785329633 |edition=1st}} 8. ^Danuta Czech, Kalendarz wydarzeń w KL Auschwitz 9. ^Wulf 1961, pp. 225–238. 10. ^Thompson 1967, p. 260. 11. ^Thompson 2000, p. 320. 12. ^Casagrande 2003, p. 270. 13. ^Lester 2005, pp. 11–12. 14. ^1 2 3 Thomas & Wegmann 1993, p. 462. 15. ^Scherzer 2007, p. 478. Bibliography{{refbegin}}
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