Kurt Gerstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kurt Gerstein

SS officer

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1905

Place of Birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1945

Profession: military personnel, engineer, resistance fighter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS).
After witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust.
In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust.
He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody.