page_title: Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
section_title: Later career and suicide
hierarchical_section_title: Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger / Career / Later career and suicide
caption_attribution_description: English: Commemorative plaque of the attack on Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger by Armia Krajowa (20 April 1943), Kraków, Poland
context_page_description: Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger was a Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government in German-occupied Poland, and in that capacity he organized and supervised numerous acts of crimes against humanity and had a major responsibility for the Holocaust in Poland. At the end of the war, he committed suicide.
context_section_description: From November 1943 until April 1944 Krüger served with the [SS Division Prinz Eugen]] conducting Nazi security warfare occupied Yugoslavia. While ostensibly engaged in anti-partisan fight in Yugoslavia, this unit became notorious for committing atrocities against the civilian population.
  Later from June to August Krüger took over the command over the SS Division Nord in northern Finland. From August 1944 until February 1945 Krüger was commanding general of the V SS Mountain Corps. In February 1945 he was Himmler's representative at the German southeast front and in April and May 1945 he was commander of a combat unit of the Orpo at Army Group South (known as Army Group Ostmark after 1 May 1945). At the end of the war Krüger committed suicide in Upper Austria.
caption: Commemorative plaque of the attack on Krüger by Armia Krajowa (20 April 1943), Kraków.
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