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Oswald Ludwig Pohl (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ⓘ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the genocide of the European Jews. After the war ...
Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Endlösung (“Final Solution”).
Oswald Pohl After serving in the First World War Pohl entered the Nazi Party in 1922, and four years later was made an SA Leader. A naval officer by profession, Pohl rose to the position of Senior Paymaster captain.
He objected to the sentence: “The destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, including the deportation or extermination of more than 56,000 Jews, was personally committed by him [Oswald Pohl].” According to Dehler, Pohl destroyed the ghetto but not its inhabitants .
Oswald Pohl in Nuremberg 1947, with scabbed fresh wounds all over his left cheek from torture. Oswald Pohl (30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951), SS Obergruppenführer, headed the SS offices that, in early 1942, were consolidated as the SS’s Economic and Administrative Main Office ( Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt ).
The forerunner of the WVHA was the SS Administrative Office (Verwaltungsamt) headed by the future chief of the WVHA, Oswald Pohl. A former naval disbursing officer, Pohl joined the Nazi Party in 1926.
In January 1947, Military Tribunal II, which had been created by the US Military Government for Germany on December 14, 1946, took on the trial of Oswald Pohl and the WVHA, the fourth Subsequent Nuremberg Proceeding.
