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Alfred Kramer
Alfred Kramer served as SS-Oberscharführer and commandant of the Kaufering I subcamp. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Kaufering through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Alfred Kramer was born in Waldenburg on 7 November 1898 and was executed at Landsberg am Lech on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In July 1944 he commanded a transport of about 4000 prisoners from Warsaw to Dachau and was responsible for an escort of about 250 SS men; his own statement described lack of water and food, beatings and deaths during the march and rail journey. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From September to November 1944, as commandant of Kaufering I, he beat and kicked prisoners; witnesses testified that some of those beaten died. The US military court found him guilty and sentenced him to death. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Kramer’s responsibility covers both command of a transport in lethal conditions and his personal violence at Kaufering I; the profile does not automatically transfer every crime of the entire Kaufering complex to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- On 26 July 1944 he assumed command of the march and transport of about 4000 prisoners from Warsaw to Dachau. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 3 September to 12 November 1944 he led Kaufering I and personally beat prisoners. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The main Dachau trial found him guilty of both charges and sentenced him to death on 13 December 1945. The review recommendation found no basis for clemency; Kramer was hanged on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
Kramer’s own statement accepted command responsibility for the transport and described its conditions but sought to shift part of the blame to superiors and guards; the profile separates those admissions from testimony about his personal beatings. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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