Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

WILHELM FRIEDRICH BOGER

He was a notorious Nazi in Auschwitz camp during WW II. He was of the rank of a captain and was known as tiger of Auschwitz. He inflicted brutal torture on the camp inmates and many died in the process. He derived pleasure in devising new techniques for torture . His atrocious crimes in the Political Department continued until the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945. Thereafter, on the run for five months until June 1946, he was eventually detained in Ludwigsburgwhere his parents were living. He should have been extradited to Poland for trial but managed to escape later that same year. From 1948 until mid 1949, he was working as a farm hand in Crailsheim. He then lived with his family under his proper name in Hemmingen near Leonberg. He found a job as supervisor of supplies at the Heinkelwerke, an airplane factory in his birthplace Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, where he was apprehended in October 1958 at the age of 51. He had heretofore led a withdrawn life; when acquaintances or neighbors asked him about his activities at KZ Auschwitz, he would reply that he had done nothing worthy of regret (er habe sich nichts vorzuwerfen). He passed denazification. The particular organ of justice ("Spruchkammer") by which he was processed in Stuttgart found "...He does not leave the impression of a raw, brutal man, but more one of a rational, well-schooled police commissioner and civil servant..." and stopped the investigation because of the costs to be borne by the government should the investigation continue.