Oswald Pohl Family Tree

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Object ID

2015.2.172

Object Name

Tree, Family

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Description

Family tree on grey paper written in blue-gray ink with two names on the right circled in blue.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:Oswald Pohl (1892-1951). Pohl was the head of the Economic Office of the SS and ultimate overseer of the concentration camp system. He was responsible for turning his victims' gold teeth, eyeglasses, hair, etc. into cash for the SS, using the "Max Heliger" Swiss accounts. He was captured by British troops in 1946 and sentenced to death by an American military tribunal for crimes against humanity, as well as war crimes, mass murder, and crimes committed in the concentration camps. Despite repeated appeals, he was executed in 1951.

Dimensions

17 x 23 3/4"

Keywords

Oswald Pohl, family tree

Subcollection

Early

Recommended Citation

"Oswald Pohl Family Tree" (2018). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.172.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1402

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