Albert Forster Politician

Albert Maria Forster (26 July 1902 – 28 February 1952) was a Nazi German politician. Under his administration as the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia 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 forceful Germanisation. Forster was tried, convicted and hanged for his crimes after Germany was defeated.

Personal facts

Albert Forster
Birth dateJuly 26, 1902
Birth place
German Empire , Germany , Kingdom of Bavaria , Fürth
Date of deathFebruary 28, 1952
Place of death
Poland , Warsaw

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Office holder

party
Nazi Party

Topical connections

Adolf HitlerPresident
Philipp Landgrave of HesseRoyalty
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Adolf Ritter von TutschekMilitary person
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Alfred SchwarzmannMilitary person

Albert Forster on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4545547