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Josef Blösche

1912 - 1969

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Josef Blösche (12 February 1912 – 29 July 1969) was a German war criminal and a member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and SD during World War II. Blösche personally executed many Jews, participating in several massacres, and helped send many more to their deaths in extermination camps. Blösche became known to the world because he was photographed five times with SS forces that suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as published in the Stroop Report. The most famous photograph portrays a boy surrendering in the foreground, and Blösche as the SS man who is facing the boy with a sub-machine gun in hand. The Report was used in prosecuting former Nazis for war crimes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Blösche is the 147th most popular extremist (down from 131st in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 284th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Josef Blösche ranks 147 out of 283. Before him are Baruch Goldstein, Patricia Krenwinkel, Dennis Nilsen, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Whitey Bulger, and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley. After him are Stephen Paddock, Fred West, Alexandros Koryzis, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, Joseph Valachi, and John Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Josef Blösche ranks 136. Before him are Edmond Jabès, Charles Addams, Gil Evans, Joachim Schepke, Manuel Rosas, and Folco Lulli. After him are Barry Sullivan, Frank Oppenheimer, Kristina Söderbaum, Maria Montez, Boris Kidrič, and Jacques Bergier. Among people deceased in 1969, Josef Blösche ranks 88. Before him are George Cœdès, Max Weinreich, Giovanni Urbani, Léon Scieur, Coleman Hawkins, and Ivar Ballangrud. After him are Thelma Ritter, He Long, Claude Dornier, Domingo Tejera, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, and André Salmon.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Blösche ranks 299 out of 1,200. Before him are Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), Jiří Sobotka (1911), Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1246), John of Görlitz (1370), and Judith of Bohemia (1056). After him are Oskar Nedbal (1874), Jan Železný (1966), Pavel Kohout (1928), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), Karel Kramář (1860), and Mirek Topolánek (1956).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Czechia

Among extremists born in Czechia, Josef Blösche ranks 1. 

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