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Walter Krämer
1892–1941
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Occupation
- politician
Walter Kraemer (Krämer) (German pronunciation: [ËvaltÉ ËkÊÉËmÉ] ; 21 June 1892 â 6 November 1941) was a German communist politician and member of the resistance against Nazism.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Walter Kraemer (Krämer) (German pronunciation: [ËvaltÉ ËkÊÉËmÉ] ; 21 June 1892 â 6 November 1941) was a German communist politician and member of the resistance against Nazism. From 1932 to 1933, he was a deputy of the Prussian Landtag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), then was arrested in 1933 and murdered in 1941 in a sub-camp of the concentration camp Buchenwald in Goslar. He assisted prisoners with getting medical help, becoming known as the "Doctor of Buchenwald", for which he received the posthumous title "Righteous among the Nations" from the State of Israel in 2000.
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