SS Major-General Juergen STROOP

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Maj.-Gen. Jürgen STROOP

Subject: Jürgen / Juergen / Jurgen / Josef STROOP
Birth: 26 Sep 1895, Detmold, Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death: 6 Mar 1952, hanged on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
Military Service: WW I: Vizefeldwebel [Vice-Sergeant]
Military Service: WW II: Schutzstaffeln Brigadeführer [SS Major-General], Generalmajor der Polizei [Major General of Police], Schutzstaffeln und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Warschau [SS and Police Leader in the Warsaw District]; ordered the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto, amongst other war crimes
Occupation: clerk, land registry bureau, Lippe
Religion: Catholic
Father: policeman

In 1941, changed his given name from Josef to Jürgen.

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; FRG, Deutschland, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Sources:

1. Sybil Milton. 1979. The Stroop Report: the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More! Pantheon Books, New York.

2. Biography: Jurgen Stroop, 1895-1951 (online at jewishvirtuallibrary.org).

3. Numerous references online (just Google his name).

Note: In a recent History Channel documentary (5/05), I saw his name captioned STRUPE, but I've not seen this spelling elsewhere.

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