Heinrich Klaustermeyer

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Heinrich Klaustermeyer
Klaustermeyer after his arrest in the 1960s
Born	Karl Heinrich Klaustermeyer (1914-02-22)22 February 1914 Bünde, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	21 April 1976(1976-04-21) (aged 62) Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Known for	Stroop Report
Criminal status	Deceased
Motive	Nazism Thrill
Conviction(s)	Murder (9 counts)
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment with hard labour
Details
Victims	9+
Span of crimes	1941–1944
Country	German-occupied Poland
Location(s)	Warsaw Ghetto
Target(s)	Jews
Date apprehended	February 1961
SS career
Allegiance	Germany
Service / branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1939–1945
Rank	Oberscharführer
Unit	Gestapo

Karl Heinrich Klaustermeyer (22 February 1914 – 21 April 1976) was a German Nazi Party official who served in the Gestapo, NSKK, and SA. During World War II, he was stationed in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he personally murdered multiple Jewish civilians and participated in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, he settled down in West Germany. Klaustermeyer was investigated by German prosecutors and arrested in the early 1960s. In 1965, he was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison by the Bielefeld regional court. He was released from prison in 1976 on health grounds due to terminal cancer and died less than two weeks later.