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Wilhelm Boger
Wilhelm Boger served as officer in the investigation and interrogation section of the Auschwitz Political Department. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz 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
- Wilhelm Boger was born in Stuttgart on 19 December 1906 and died in Bietigheim on 3 April 1977 while serving his sentence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 23 December 1943 until the evacuation of Auschwitz he headed the investigation and interrogation section of the Political Department; the Auschwitz Museum names him among that section’s most notorious henchmen. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1965 the court convicted him of 5 murders, joint murder in 109 cases and aiding murder in 1,010 cases, imposing life imprisonment plus 5 years. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile distinguishes Boger’s office in the camp political police from the acts individually proved at trial and does not assign every crime of the Political Department to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 23 December 1943 until the camp evacuation he headed the investigation and interrogation section of the Auschwitz Political Department. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In August 1965 he received life imprisonment plus 5 years for acts comprising 5 murders, 109 jointly committed murders and assistance in 1,010 murders. (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
Arrested in October 1958, he was sentenced in 1965 to life imprisonment plus 5 years and died in custody on 3 April 1977. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The figures are legal categories of conduct covered by the judgment, not a separate victim total for this profile. 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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