Josef Kramer was a Hauptsturmführer in the SS and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen Belsen concentration camps. Dubbed the "Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war cri
Kramer in 1945
Former guards at Bergen-Belsen are made to load the bodies of dead prisoners onto a truck for burial, 17–18 April 1945
SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer, photographed in legcuffs at Belsen before being removed to the POW cage at Celle, 17 April 1945.
Former Aufseherin Irma Grese and former SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer in prison in Celle in August 1945
Hamelin Prison, also known as the Stockhof, was a prison and penitentiary in Hamelin. The penal institution, which had a predecessor since 1698, existed from 1827 to 1980. It was located between the o
View of the prison complex on the Weser from Klüt hill around 1900
Plaque in front of the prison
Buildings of the prison today