Bestial NAZI Frankenstein Heinrich Klaustermeyer & His Horrible Crimes in Warsaw Ghetto during WW2
Bestial NAZI Frankenstein Heinrich Klaustermeyer & His Horrible Crimes in Warsaw Ghetto during WW2
Bestial Nazi “Frankenstein” Heinrich Klaustermeyer \u0026 His Horrible Crimes in Warsaw Ghetto during WW2. Immediately after Hitler came to power, Germany became a dictatorship, and the Nazi regime quickly began to restrict the civil and human rights of the Jews and established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous”. In the new Nazi Germany Heinrich Klaustermeyer, got a job as a messenger with the city of Bünde. In 1935, he joined the Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces - but was discharged on health grounds 2 years later. He was then rehired as a caretaker in Bünde.
On the 9th – 10th of November 1938, the Nazi leaders unleashed a series of coordinated violent riots against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany and recently incorporated territories. The Nazi SA and German civilians not only ransacked 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and schools, but also destroyed hundreds of synagogues. 91 Jews were murdered and the German SS and police sent almost 30,000 Jewish males to concentration camps, primarily Dachau. This event came to be called Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass because of the shattered glass that littered the streets afterwards, but the euphemism does not convey the full brutality of the event. Immediately after the Kristallnacht, Nazi officials claimed that the Jews themselves were to blame for the riots, and a fine of one billion reichsmarks, about $400 million at 1938 rates, was imposed on the German Jewish community. Kristallnacht was a turning point in the history of the Third Reich, marking the shift from antisemitic rhetoric and legislation to the violent, aggressive anti-Jewish measures that would culminate with the Holocaust. Heinrich Klaustermeyer, a well-known “Jew hater”, played a leading role in the anti-Semitic riots in Bünde.
In August 1939 he was hired by the Gestapo in Bielefeld with the rank of Oberscharführer.
The Second World War started on the 1st of September 1939 with the invasion of Poland. Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks and artillery bombardment and German troops entered the capital on 29th of September shortly after its surrender.
The campaign in Poland ended on the 6th of October the same year with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of the country. On the 23rd of November 1939, German civilian occupation authorities required Warsaw’s Jews to identify themselves by wearing white armbands with a blue Star of David. The German authorities closed Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish-owned property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor and dissolved prewar Jewish organizations.
In November 1940, Klaustermeyer became an employee of the Gestapo in the Warsaw District which was one of the first four Nazi districts of the General Governorate region of German-occupied Poland during World War II, along with Lublin, Radom and Kraków Districts.
In the autumn of 1941, Klaustermeyer was assigned the task of monitoring Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. German authorities had decreed the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw on the 12th of October 1940. The decree required all Jewish residents of Warsaw to move into a designated area, which German authorities sealed off from the rest of the city in November 1940. In December of the same year the Germans called for the death penalty for Jews who had left the ghetto without permission. The same penalty awaited any person who knowingly gave shelter to such Jews. The ghetto, which became the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. The population of the ghetto, increased by Jews compelled to move in from nearby towns, was estimated to be over 400,000 Jews. German authorities forced ghetto residents to live in an area of 1.3 square miles, with an average of 7.2 persons per room. Proper hygiene was almost impossible, as many homes did not have running water.
Extreme overcrowding, minimal rations, and unsanitary conditions led to disease, starvation, and the death of thousands of Jews each month.
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0.36 -> The 1st of September 1939. After a false
accusation that the Poles attacked a German radio
6.9 -> station, Nazi Germany launches a “retaliatory”
campaign against Poland triggering World War 2.
12.96 -> Poland finds itself fighting a two front
war when it is invaded by the Soviet Union
17.52 -> from the east on the 17th of September. Warsaw
officially surrenders to the Germans on the 28th
23.82 -> of September and one day later in accordance with
the secret protocol to their non-aggression pact,
28.74 -> Germany and the Soviet Union partition Poland.
In the fall of 1940, German authorities establish
35.46 -> a ghetto in Warsaw, Poland’s largest
city with the largest Jewish population.
39.36 -> Almost 30 percent of Warsaw’s population are
packed into 2.4 percent of the city's area.
46.32 -> German policy toward the Jews in the Warsaw
Ghetto is particularly brutal and ruthless.
51.18 -> Extreme overcrowding, minimal rations,
and unsanitary conditions lead to disease,
57.18 -> starvation, and the death of
thousands of Jews each month.
61.14 -> One of the main perpetrators of these
atrocities is Heinrich Klaustermeyer.
65.7 -> Karl Heinrich Klaustermeyer, a son
of a self-employed master painter,
70.86 -> was born on the 22nd of February 1914 in
Bielefeld, then part of the German Empire.
77.04 -> On the 24th of October 1929 the stock
market crash marked the beginning of the
82.62 -> Great Depression in the United States
which soon spread across the globe.
86.1 -> Due to deteriorating economic conditions
in Germany, Heinrich Klaustermeyer,
90.54 -> a trained car mechanic, became unemployed.
93.42 -> The Great Depression also played a role in
the emergence of Adolf Hitler, the leader of
97.68 -> the Nazi Party, which Klaustermeyer joined in
1932. The same year he also joined the SA.
104.04 -> While the Great Depression and German
economic conditions were not solely
108.36 -> responsible for bringing Hitler to power,
they helped to create an environment in
112.08 -> which he gained support and on the
30th of January 1933 Adolf Hitler
117.12 -> was appointed chancellor of Germany by
the German President Paul von Hindenburg.
121.2 -> Immediately after Hitler came to power,
Germany became a dictatorship, and the
126.36 -> Nazi regime quickly began to restrict the civil
and human rights of the Jews and established the
131.46 -> first concentration camps, imprisoning
its political opponents, homosexuals,
135.66 -> Jehovah’s witnesses, and others classified as
“dangerous”. Unlike prisons with which they are
141.66 -> often inaccurately compared today, concentration
camps were independent of any judicial review.
146.94 -> The first such camp - Dachau - was
established in March 1933, less than
153 -> 2 months after Hitler became the chancellor.
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its
160.08 -> European allies would establish more than
44,000 camps and other incarceration sites,
164.94 -> including ghettos. The perpetrators
used these locations for forced labor,
169.68 -> detention of people deemed to be "enemies of
the state," and the mass murder of millions.
175.56 -> In the new Nazi Germany Heinrich Klaustermeyer,
got a job as a messenger with the city of Bünde.
181.26 -> In 1935, he joined the Wehrmacht – the
German Armed Forces - but was discharged
185.82 -> on health grounds 2 years later. He was
then rehired as a caretaker in Bünde.
190.38 -> On the 9th – 10th of November 1938, the Nazi
leaders unleashed a series of coordinated
195.72 -> violent riots against the Jews throughout Nazi
Germany and recently incorporated territories.
200.82 -> The Nazi SA and German civilians not only
ransacked 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses,
207.12 -> homes, and schools, but also destroyed hundreds
of synagogues. 91 Jews were murdered and the
213.78 -> German SS and police sent almost 30,000 Jewish
males to concentration camps, primarily Dachau.
220.2 -> This event came to be called Kristallnacht
or The Night of Broken Glass because of the
225.48 -> shattered glass that littered the streets
afterwards, but the euphemism does not
229.26 -> convey the full brutality of the event.
Immediately after the Kristallnacht,
233.64 -> Nazi officials claimed that the Jews themselves
were to blame for the riots, and a fine of one
238.38 -> billion reichsmarks, about $400 million at 1938
rates, was imposed on the German Jewish community.
244.5 -> Kristallnacht was a turning point in the history
of the Third Reich, marking the shift from
249.96 -> antisemitic rhetoric and legislation
to the violent, aggressive anti-Jewish
254.52 -> measures that would culminate with the Holocaust.
Heinrich Klaustermeyer, a well-known “Jew hater”,
259.92 -> played a leading role in the
anti-Semitic riots in Bünde.
262.86 -> In August 1939 he was hired by the Gestapo in
Bielefeld with the rank of Oberscharführer.
268.98 -> The Second World War started on the 1st of
September 1939 with the invasion of Poland.
275.64 -> Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks
and artillery bombardment and German
279.72 -> troops entered the capital on 29th of
September shortly after its surrender.
284.64 -> The campaign in Poland ended on the 6th of October
the same year with Germany and the Soviet Union
289.62 -> dividing and annexing the whole of the country.
On the 23rd of November 1939, German civilian
296.64 -> occupation authorities required Warsaw's Jews
to identify themselves by wearing white armbands
302.34 -> with a blue Star of David. The German authorities
closed Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish-owned
308.1 -> property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced
labor and dissolved prewar Jewish organizations.
312.96 -> In November 1940, Klaustermeyer became
an employee of the Gestapo in the Warsaw
318.42 -> District which was one of the first four Nazi
districts of the General Governorate region
322.98 -> of German-occupied Poland during World War II,
along with Lublin, Radom and Kraków Districts.
329.34 -> In the autumn of 1941, Klaustermeyer was assigned
the task of monitoring Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
334.98 -> German authorities had decreed the establishment
of a ghetto in Warsaw on the 12th of October 1940.
341.64 -> The decree required all Jewish residents
of Warsaw to move into a designated area,
346.32 -> which German authorities sealed off from the
rest of the city in November 1940. In December
352.08 -> of the same year the Germans called for the
death penalty for Jews who had left the ghetto
356.28 -> without permission. The same penalty awaited any
person who knowingly gave shelter to such Jews.
362.1 -> The ghetto, which became the largest of all
the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe
366.54 -> during World War II, was enclosed by a wall that
was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire,
371.82 -> and closely guarded to prevent movement
between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw.
376.14 -> The population of the ghetto, increased by
Jews compelled to move in from nearby towns,
380.64 -> was estimated to be over 400,000 Jews.
German authorities forced ghetto residents
386.58 -> to live in an area of 1.3 square miles,
with an average of 7.2 persons per room.
391.08 -> Proper hygiene was almost impossible, as
many homes did not have running water.
396.12 -> Extreme overcrowding, minimal rations, and
unsanitary conditions led to disease, starvation,
402.72 -> and the death of thousands of Jews each month.
An average daily food ration in 1941 for Jews
409.44 -> in Warsaw was limited to 184 calories, compared
to 2,613 calories for the Germans. An official
417.3 -> German order stated that “the basic provisioning
of the Jewish Residential District must be less
421.86 -> than the minimum necessary for preserving
life, regardless of the consequences.”
426.84 -> The hunger in the ghetto was so great,
that dying people were laying on the
430.62 -> streets and small children were seen begging.
Economic activity in the ghetto was minimal and
436.74 -> generally illegal. The most prevalent of such
activity was the widespread smuggling of food
441.6 -> and medicines into the ghetto which supplemented
the miserable official allotments and kept the
445.92 -> death rate from increasing still further.
Those individuals who were active in these
450.6 -> illegal acts or who had other savings were
generally able to survive longer in the ghetto.
455.52 -> Between 1940 and mid-1942, 83,000
Jews died of starvation and disease.
461.88 -> When a resident from the Warsaw Ghetto passed
away, their families would place the body in the
466.68 -> street and it would be picked up in the morning
by a funeral cart that made its rounds every day.
471.54 -> Heinrich Klaustermeyer, known in the ghetto for
his brutal and ruthless behavior towards Jews,
476.496 -> was corrupted and with the proceeds
from his side businesses he was able
480.42 -> to afford a lavish life style
and stay at the luxurious hotel.
483.42 -> With his SS comrade Josef Blösche, Klaustermeyer
would ride a bicycle into the ghetto and beat
489.66 -> and shoot men, women and children at random,
just to terrorize them. For their brutality,
495.06 -> the Jews in the ghetto gave Klaustermeyer
and Blösche the nickname "Frankenstein".
499.74 -> In autumn 1941, Klaustermeyer shot the Jewish
police officer in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.
506.34 -> In the summer of 1942, he captured six women
on Kupiecka Street, made them stand against a
512.28 -> wall and then shot every second of them.
On one occasion he fired into a Jewish
517.2 -> marching column on one of the Ghetto’s
streets and killed one Jew in the process.
521.76 -> After the war one witness testified how on one
autumn day in 1942, he had observed Klaustermeyer
528.54 -> shooting three randomly chosen Jews: two women
and one man. None of them were older than 30.
534.9 -> Holocaust survivor Irena Rojek reported
after the war how in the spring of 1942
540.42 -> she had seen how Klaustermeyer had snatched
the child from a woman and threw it onto
544.92 -> the street. He then walked towards
the child, pulled out his short gun,
548.64 -> aimed and shot the child. Then he turned
to the child’s mother and shot her as well.
554.94 -> Another witness later testified how,
while staying just a few meters away,
558.78 -> he had to watch Klaustermeyer shoot his
mother, wife and three-month-old child.
563.46 -> In the ghetto, his mode of transportation
was a three-wheeled rickshaw that resembled
568.5 -> a two-seater deck chair. Wherever
he appeared, the Jews in the ghetto
572.4 -> fled because they were afraid of being shot.
Between the fall of 1941 and February 1943,
578.46 -> he killed twenty Jews on this route between
the commandant's office and the ghetto,
582.48 -> where he controlled Jewish Ghetto
workers in German companies.
586.2 -> After the war, Klaustermeyer claimed that he
and his colleagues liked going to the controls
590.94 -> in the Warsaw Ghetto because they usually
got breakfast at the factories. However,
594.9 -> one Holocaust survivor later testified that
Klaustermeyer together with his Nazi comrades
599.7 -> were unable to have breakfast
before they had shot a few Jews.
603.42 -> Heinrich Klaustermeyer did not spare
even his rickshaw driver. In August 1942,
608.76 -> he drew his pistol and shot him
in the head without any reason.
612.3 -> From the 22nd of July until the 12th of September
1942, German SS and police units, assisted by
619.8 -> auxiliaries, carried out mass deportations from
the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center,
624.6 -> 52 miles away from Warsaw. Rather than fill the
daily quotas for deportation, Jewish council
631.02 -> leader Adam Czerniaków committed suicide on
the 23rd of July by swallowing a cyanide pill.
636.78 -> The deportees were allowed to carry with them
15 kg of baggage, food for three days, money,
643.8 -> gold, and other valuables. During this
period, the Germans deported about 265,000
650.22 -> Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka
and they killed approximately
654.18 -> 35,000 Jews inside the ghetto during the
operation. Heinrich Klaustermeyer served
659.16 -> as a local expert hunting down many Jews who
were hiding from deportations during this time.
663.72 -> In January 1943, SS and police units returned
to Warsaw, this time with the intent of
670.56 -> deporting thousands of the remaining
approximately 70,000-80,000 Jews in the
675.24 -> ghetto to forced-labor camps for Jews in Lublin
District. This time, however, many of the Jews,
681.48 -> understandably believing that the SS and police
would deport them to the Treblinka killing center,
685.92 -> resisted deportation, some of them using small
arms which had been smuggled into the ghetto.
691.2 -> After seizing approximately 5,000 Jews, the SS and
police units halted the operation and withdrew.
697.8 -> On the 19th of April 1943, the Warsaw
ghetto uprising began after the German
703.44 -> troops and police entered the ghetto
to deport its surviving inhabitants
707.22 -> to the forced labor camps in Lublin district.
708.9 -> The ghetto inhabitants offered organized
resistance in the first days of the operation,
713.52 -> inflicting casualties on the well-armed
and well-equipped SS and police units.
718.26 -> They continued to resist deportation as
individuals or in small groups for four weeks.
723.48 -> It was the largest uprising by Jews
during World War II and the first
727.38 -> significant urban revolt against
the German occupation in Europe.
730.2 -> In the end however, the Germans razed
the ghetto to the ground. They burned
735.96 -> and demolished this part of Warsaw, block
by block, in order to smoke out their prey.
740.58 -> The Germans ended the operation on
the 16th of May when Jürgen Stroop,
744.9 -> who led the suppression of the uprising, announced
in his daily report to Berlin that “The former
749.52 -> Jewish Quarter in Warsaw is no more.”
The SS and police deported approximately
755.7 -> 42,000 Warsaw ghetto survivors, who
had been captured during the uprising,
759.06 -> to the forced-labor camps at Poniatowa,
Trawniki and to the Majdanek concentration camp.
764.16 -> At least 7,000 Jews died fighting or in hiding
in the ghetto as they were burnt alive or died
770.22 -> from smoke inhalation. The SS and police sent
another 7,000 to the Treblinka killing center.
776.76 -> On the following year, Heinrich Klaustermeyer
participated in the suppression of the Warsaw
781.86 -> Uprising which began on the 1st of August 1944.
The Polish Home Army, a non-Communist underground
788.46 -> resistance army with units stationed
throughout German-occupied Poland,
791.88 -> rose against the German occupation authorities in
an effort to liberate Warsaw. The impetus for the
797.82 -> uprising was the appearance of Soviet forces along
the east bank of the Vistula River. The Soviets
803.7 -> however failed to intervene, and the Germans
eventually crushed the revolt and razed the
808.38 -> center of the city to the ground in October 1944.
Though they treated captured Home Army combatants
814.32 -> as prisoners of war, the Germans sent thousands of
captured Polish civilians to concentration camps
819.54 -> in the Reich. 166,000 people lost their lives
in the uprising, including perhaps as many as
826.56 -> 17,000 Polish Jews who had either fought with the
Polish Home Army or had been discovered in hiding.
831.9 -> After the suppression of the Warsaw
Uprising, Klaustermeyer left the city.
836.1 -> After Germany's surrender, Klaustermeyer was
detained by British occupation forces and sent
841.8 -> to an internment camp. He was released in late
1947, only to be re-arrested for being a member
848.04 -> of the Gestapo. During his denazification
trial, Klaustermeyer was incriminated in
853.62 -> his boycotting of Jews in the 1930s, but not
for the murders he had committed in Warsaw.
859.32 -> He was quickly released, settled down in West
Germany, got married and took a job as a driver.
864.42 -> However, he did not escape justice.
In February 1961, Klaustermeyer was
871.38 -> exposed after his name was mentioned during the
investigation of former Nazi official Ludwig Hahn
876.72 -> who as Klaustermeyer was directly involved in
the destruction and liquidation of the Warsaw
881.52 -> Ghetto and the brutal suppression of both the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising.
886.32 -> Klaustermeyer was arrested and admitted to having
been a member of the Gestapo in Warsaw from 1941
892.68 -> to 1944. During the investigation, Klaustermeyer
implicated his Nazi Comrade Josef Blösche,
899.82 -> who was now living in East Germany,
in the atrocities he had committed.
903.54 -> At the trial, Klaustermeyer claimed that although
he had often had a reason to intervene against the
908.82 -> Jews in the ghetto, he had instead turned
a blind eye to them. However, more than 80
913.38 -> witnesses who came to testify against him, had
very different recollections of his conduct.
918.12 -> While Blösche was executed for his
crimes in 1969, Heinrich Klaustermeyer,
923.22 -> charged with murdering 20 Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto, escaped death sentence.
928.02 -> On 4 February 1965 Heinrich Klaustermeyer
was found guilty of murdering 9 Jews in
934.2 -> the Warsaw Ghetto. He was sentenced to nine
life terms, one for each murder. In addition,
939.72 -> he was sentenced to hard labor and ordered
to permanently forfeit his civil rights.
944.52 -> The judge noted that the proven victims
were killed entirely of his own volition
948.96 -> and his "sheer lust for murder." He said that
Klaustermeyer, who maintained his innocence,
954.3 -> had hated Jews his entire life
and showed no signs of remorse.
958.44 -> Dying from advanced cancer, he was released
from prison on the 8th of April 1976.
964.8 -> Heinrich Klaustermeyer was 62 years old when
he died 13 days later on the 21st of April.
971.1 -> There were no tears shed
for Heinrich Klaustermeyer.
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