13 Facts About Wilhelm Boger

Wilhelm Boger gained infamy for the atrocities he committed at Auschwitz, including torturing prisoners using a device known as the "Boger swing".

Wilhelm Boger entered the Artamanen-Bund, a volkisch agrarian movement, and joined the Nazi Party in 1929.

Wilhelm Boger was a member of the general SS beginning in 1930.

Wilhelm Boger was appointed Police Commissioner after passing the police force examination in 1937, even though he had been taken into custody in 1936 for mistreating a prisoner during an interrogation.

Wilhelm Boger invented the "Boger swing", an instrument of torture.

Wilhelm Boger was detained by American military police on 19 June 1945, in Ludwigsburg, where his parents were living.

Wilhelm Boger would have been extradited to Poland for trial but managed to escape from custody in November 1946.

Wilhelm Boger then lived with his family under his proper name in Hemmingen near Leonberg.

Wilhelm Boger 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.

Wilhelm Boger had heretofore led a withdrawn life; when acquaintances or neighbors asked him about his activities at KZ Auschwitz, he would reply that he had done nothing worthy of regret.

Wilhelm Boger claimed that he did not beat prisoners to death and just carried out orders.

In 2011, Wilhelm Boger's granddaughter recounted that she only learned the truth about her grandfather when she was in university, and that it took her several years of therapy to begin to cope with that.

Wilhelm Boger said that she found it hard to come to terms with the fact that the man who had killed a little boy and eaten his apple had placed a photo of her as a little girl on the wall of his prison cell.