Date of birth:

August 11th, 1905 (Münster, German Empire)

Date of death:

July 25th, 1945 (Cherche-Midi prison, France)

Buried on:

Cimetière parisien de Thiais

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Rank: SS-Obersturmführer. Whistleblower within the Waffen-SS. He gave information to the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, in an effort to inform the international public about the Holocaust. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust.

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• - Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good (1969)

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