Josef Blösche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Blösche

SS soldier

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1912

Place of Birth: Frýdlant, Liberec Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1969

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Josef Blösche (12 February 1912 – 29 July 1969) was an Austrian member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and SD during World War II.
Blösche became known to the world because of a famous photograph taken during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which portrays a surrendering little boy in the foreground, and Blösche as the SS man who is facing the boy with a sub-machine gun in hand.
He was sentenced to death and executed in Leipzig on 29 July 1969.