Karl Eberhard Schöngarth in the context of "Massacre of Lwów professors"

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⭐ Core Definition: Karl Eberhard Schöngarth

Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (22 April 1903 – 16 May 1946) was a German lawyer and SS-Brigadeführer in Nazi Germany. He was a war criminal who perpetrated mass murder and genocide in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was originally planned.

After the war, Schöngarth and six others were tried for murdering an American pilot, Americo S. Galle, who was shot down over the Netherlands in November 1944. They were all found guilty. Schöngarth and four others were sentenced to death and executed in 1946.

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👉 Karl Eberhard Schöngarth in the context of Massacre of Lwów professors

In July 1941, 25 Polish academics from the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) along with 25 of their family members were killed by Nazi German occupation forces and Ukrainian auxiliaries. By targeting prominent citizens and intellectuals for elimination, the Nazis hoped to prevent anti-Nazi activity and to weaken the resolve of the Polish resistance movement. According to an eyewitness the executions were carried out by an Einsatzgruppe unit (German: Einsatzkommando zur besonderen Verwendung) under the command of Karl Eberhard Schöngarth with the participation of Ukrainian translators in German uniforms.

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SS → Brigadeführer → Nazi Germany → War criminal → Mass murder → Genocide → Occupied Poland → The Holocaust in Poland → Wannsee Conference → Final Solution to the Jewish Question → Netherlands →