Jürgen Stroop

Jurgen Stroop was a Major General in the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf in the Nazi era during World War II. He led the supression of the Warsaw ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote a book-length account of the operation titled, The Stroop Report. He also oversaw the deportation of Jews from Warsaw to the Treblinka Extermination Camp from mid to late 1942. In 1945, he was captured by the US Army in Germany. Then he was tried at the Dachau trials in 1947 and was sentenced to death by hanging. In 1951, Jurgen Stroop was sentenced to death by hanging also by a Warsaw Court. He then was hanged to death on March 6, 1952.