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WILHELM BOGER

1906-1977            WILHELM BOGER Nazi - Wilhelm Boger “The Tiger of Auschwitz” was a German police commissioner and concentration camp overseer. He was infamous for the appalling crimes which he had committed at Auschwitz under the command of the camp’s Gestapo chief Maximilian Grabner. Born in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Germany, he joined the Hitler Youth (HJ) in his teens. He joined the Nazi party in 1929 and became general SS in 1930 and was admitted to Police at Friedrichshafen and the political police in Stuttgart. He was appointed Police Commissioner after passing the examination in 1937, even though he had been taken into custody in 1936 for mistreating a prisoner during an interrogation in 1936. In 1940 he joined the 2nd SS and Police Engineer reserve unit based in Dresden, where he was dispatched to the front and wounded in 1942. He was later transferred to Auschwitz and was responsible for the camp and keeping files on prisoners, security of the camp, resistance and interrogations. Boger invented the “Boger swing” an instrument of torture, an iron bar suspended by chains hung from the ceiling. The prisoner would be brought in for “questioning” stripped and bent over and a guard would smash the victim with a crowbar which most victims died as a result.

After WWII he was on the run for 5-months until June 1945 he was detained in Ludwigsburg where his parents were living. He managed to escape that year and from 1948-1949 he was working as a farm hand in Crailsheim. He then lived with his family near Leonberg where he was apprehended in 1958, aged 51. When locals asked him about Auschwitz he had replied that he done nothing wrothy of regret. The investigation was stopped due to costs by the government. In 1959 he was arrested again forwar crimes and was on trial in 1965 at Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials and was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. He died in prison aged 70 in 1977, 19 years after his arrest and trial.