Josef Blösche Military person

Josef Blösche (12 February 1912 – 29 July 1969) was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in Germany, and served in the SS and SD during World War II as a Rottenführer (Section Leader). Blösche became known to the world as a symbol of the Nazi cruelty inflicted on people within the Warsaw ghetto because of a famous photograph taken during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which portrays a surrendering little boy in the foreground, and Blösche as the SS soldier who is facing the boy with an MP18 sub-machine gun in hand.

Personal facts

Josef Blösche
Birth dateFebruary 12, 1912
Birth place
Austria-Hungary , Frýdlant
Date of deathJuly 29, 1969
Place of death
East Germany , Leipzig

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Military person

allegianceNazi Germany
award
War Merit Cross
military operations
World War II
military branch
Schutzstaffel
military unit
Sicherheitsdienst
service start1938
service end1945

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External resources

  1. http://www.bnr.de/content/der-ss-mann-josef-bloesche-ae-leben-und-sterben-eines-moerders