Execution of Josef Kramer - Bestial Nazi Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau & Bergen-Belsen Con. Camps. Josef Kramer, an only child in a middle-class family, was born on 10 November 1906 in Munich, then part of the German Empire. His parents, Theodore and Maria Kramer, brought him up as a "strict Roman Catholic" and in 1915, the family moved from Munich to Augsburg, where Josef completed elementary school.
In 1920 he began an apprenticeship as an electrician but from 1925 to 1933, except for working in a department store and as an accountant, he was mostly unemployed. During this time Kramer still lived in his parents' house and when his father also lost his job during the Great Depression, the whole family fell into economic hardship.
It was Germany’s economic collapse during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929 that most contributed to the Nazi Party’s success. The crisis resulted in widespread unemployment and poverty and also led to an increase in crime. The resulting anger and fear left the Germans vulnerable to arguments from both the extreme right and left. One such German was Josef Kramer who joined the Nazi party in December 1931 and the SS in June 1932.
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