Commandant Of Bergen Belsen Goes to Trial (b/w photo)

Josef Kramer, commander of the Belsen concentration camp, is assisted down from a truck as he arrives at court for trial. He was executed in November 1945. Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 - 13 December 1945) was dubbed The Beast of Belsen by camp inmates, he was a notorious German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He was detained by the British army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes and hanged on the gallows in Hamelin prison by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 - 10 July 1992) was a long-serving hangman in England. He executed at least 400 people, including William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), and John Amery, whom he considered the bravest man he had ever hanged.