Johann Frahm
Johann Frahm (born April 28, 1901 in Kleve , Norderdithmarschen district ; † October 11, 1946 in Hameln ) was a German SS sergeant in the Neuengamme concentration camp and deputy camp leader in the Neuengammer satellite camp on Bullenhuser Damm .
Life
Frahm, a member of the SS , was transferred to the SS camp team in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939 . In November 1942 he was transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp and in 1944 he was employed in the office under report leader Wilhelm Dreimann . From November 1944 at the latest, Frahm acted as deputy camp manager under Ewald Jauch in Bullenhuser Damm.
On the night of April 20-21, 1945, 20 Jewish children were murdered in the basement of the school on Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort . The children between the ages of five and twelve, half boys and half girls, had been brought from Auschwitz to Neuengamme in November 1944 , requested by the concentration camp doctor Kurt Heissmeyer . After he had already carried out human experiments on Soviet prisoners of war, the children were infected with tuberculosis. Tissue samples were then taken from them to develop a vaccine. In order to get rid of the witnesses to this crime, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl from Berlin ordered that the Heißmeyer department be "dissolved". In the basement of the school, Alfred Trzebinski injected the children with morphine and then Frahm hung them on heating pipes. Their four carers and over 20 Soviet prisoners of war were also killed with the children.
“Frahm picked up the 12-year-old boy and said to the others: He's going to be put to bed now . He went with him into a room maybe six or eight meters from the lounge, and there I saw a noose on a hook. Frahm hung the sleeping boy in this noose and hung himself with his whole body weight on the boy's body so that the noose would be tightened. I have seen a lot of human suffering during my time in the concentration camp and I was in a certain sense numb, but I have never seen children hanged. "
Shortly after the end of the Second World War , Frahm was arrested in Kleve and charged in July 1946 in the Curiohaus in one of the follow-up trials of the Neuengamme main trial for participating in crimes in the Neuengamme concentration camp. He was to death by the strand condemned and on 11 October 1946 at the prison Hameln executed .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Günther Schwarberg : The SS doctor and the children. Report on the Bullenhuser Damm murder Documentation: Daniel Haller. Edited by Henri Nannen Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1979, 1980 (2 volumes) Awarded the Anne Frank Prize in 1988. Frequent new editions, also under the title: The SS doctor and the children from Bullenhuser Damm z. B. Steidl, Göttingen 1994 ISBN 3-88243-306-X - Numerous translations (English, Romanian, Polish)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Schwarberg : " Hanging twenty children takes a long time " in: " Die Zeit " from April 6, 2005, No. 15.
- ↑ quoted from: Günther Schwarberg : " Hanging twenty children takes a long time " in: " Die Zeit " from April 6, 2005, No. 15.
- ↑ See also: Trials against those responsible
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frahm, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Unterscharführer in Neuengamme concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve , Norderdithmarschen district |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1946 |
| Place of death | Hamelin |