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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:  FRG, Deutschland, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Sources:

1.  Sybil Milton.  1979.  The Stroop Report:  the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More!  Pantheon Books, New York.
SS Major-General Juergen STROOP
Photo:  Polish National Archives
A translation of the original German caption reads: "The Leader of the Grand Operation."

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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