Albert Forster

(1902-1952)

Gauleiter of Danzig during WW2 executed for war crimes.

more_vert

295 views

favorite

About

edit

Jump to

Family
Relationships
Associates
Similar

Albert Maria Forster (26 July 1902 – 28 February 1952) was a Nazi German politician, member of the SS and war criminal. Under his administration as the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia (the other German-annexed section of occupied Poland) during the Second World War, the local non-German population of Poles and Jews was classified as sub-human and subjected to extermination campaign involving ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and in case of some Poles with German ancestry, forceful Germanisation. Forster was directly responsible for the extermination of non-Germans and strong supporter of genocide of Poles which he advocated already before the war. Forster was tried, convicted and hanged for his crimes in Warsaw after Germany was defeated.