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Johann Frahm
Johann Frahm served as SS man, block leader and deputy satellite-camp leader. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Neuengamme and Hamburg-Rothenburgsort 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
- Johann Frahm was born on 28 April 1901 in Kleve in Dithmarschen and died at Hamelin on 11 October 1946 when the sentence was carried out. (Source: cited record)
- From November 1942 he served at Neuengamme concentration camp, and in 1944–1945 he was assigned to the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort. (Source: cited record)
- He took part in the murder of 20 Jewish children, 4 adult carers and at least 24 Soviet prisoners; he admitted placing nooses around the children’s necks. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- In a trial held from 24 to 31 July 1946 he was sentenced to death; the sentence was carried out on 11 October 1946. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes to Frahm only the participation described by memorial sources and established in the British proceedings concerning the Bullenhuser Damm murders. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Key events and mechanisms
- During the night of 20 to 21 April 1945 he took part in the murder of children and adult prisoners at Bullenhuser Damm. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
- From 24 to 31 July 1946 he was tried by a British military court and sentenced to death. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited 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
After his arrest in 1945 he appeared before a British military court in 1946; the death sentence was carried out at Hamelin on 11 October 1946. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile does not extend Frahm’s responsibility beyond his documented service and conduct at Bullenhuser Damm. No individual victim total is assigned beyond the scope described in the trial and memorial records. No portrait with clear reuse rights was found. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.