Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg
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Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (March 17, 1897 – September 20, 1943) was an Oberführer (senior colonel) of the SS and the SS and police commander of the Warsaw area. He was in charge of the first failed offensive in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19, 1943.
After the failed offensive, von Sammern-Frankenegg was replaced by Jürgen Stroop, court-martialed on April 24, 1943, and found guilty of "defending Jews". He was subsequently transferred to Croatia where he was killed in a partisan ambush near the city of Klasznic.
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