Jurgen Stroop

German major general

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Jürgen Stroop was a German SS major general who supervised the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. He was responsible for the destruction of the ghetto, famously reporting, "The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More". The uprising was a resistance by Polish Jews against Nazi deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp. Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, Jewish fighters held out for nearly a month before the ghetto was burned and destroyed. Stroop's actions were part of Adolf Hitler's "final solution" to eliminate Jews in Europe. He was later found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials.12

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
SS Major General Jürgen Stroop supervised the coup de grace: the dynamiting of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw. Thereupon he wrote his report: “The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More.”
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SS Major General Jürgen Stroop supervised the coup de grace: the dynamiting of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw. Thereupon he wrote his report: “The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More.”
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