Josef Blösche
Josef Blösche (February 5, 1912 – July 29, 1969) was a Nazi war criminal who held the rank of SS–Rottenführer.
Born in Friedland in Austria-Hungary, Blösche began his career working as a farmhand and a waiter at his father's hotel. After Nazi Germany took over the Sudetenland, Blösche became a willing servant of the regime.
In September 1941, he began serving as a guard at the Warsaw Ghetto and was in charge of the wooden bridge between Warsaw and the ghetto. He became known as "Frankenstein" for his monstrous behavior: he beat and shot men and children for merely looking at him and raped women.[citation needed]
After the war, Blösche disappeared into East Germany, but was eventually discovered in the 1960s and brought to trial.
During his trial in Erfurt in April 1969, Blösche was found guilty of war crimes, including the participation in the shooting of more than 1,000 Jews in the courtyard of a building complex on the morning of 19 April 1943. He was executed, by a shot to the neck, in Leipzig on the 29 of July in 1969.