Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

FRITZ. BRACHT

FRIZ BRACHT...

Fritz Bracht (18 January 1899 in Heiden, part of Lage near Detmold – 9 May 1945 in Bad Kudowa, now Kudowa Zdrój, Poland) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Upper Silesia.After Gauleiter Josef Wagner, in whose shadow Bracht had been standing, fell out of favour with Adolf Hitler on 9 November 1941 and was removed from office and kicked out of the Party, Silesia was split into two Gaue, Upper and Lower Silesia. Bracht was appointed as the new Gauleiter of the former. From February 1941, he was moreover given the function of High President (Oberpräsident) of the Province of Upper Silesia, and in November 1942 the office of Reich Defence Commissar in his Gau. In 1944, he was also promoted to the rank of SA Obergruppenführer. Within Bracht's jurisdiction was the extermination. May 1945 in Bad Kudowa, now Kudowa Zdrój, Poland) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Upper Silesia.After Gauleiter Josef Wagner, in whose shadow Bracht had been standing, fell out of favour with Adolf Hitler on 9 November 1941 and was removed from office and kicked out of the Party, Silesia was split into two Gaue, Upper and Lower Silesia. Bracht was appointed as the new Gauleiter of the former. From February 1941, he was moreover given the function of High President (Oberpräsident) of the Province of Upper Silesia, and in November 1942 the office of Reich Defence Commissar in his Gau. In 1944, he was also promoted to the rank of SA Obergruppenführer. Within Bracht's jurisdiction was the extermination camp Auschwitz.  

As the Red Army marched into Germany, Bracht and his wife both committed suicide by poisoning themselves with potassium cyanide.