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Karl Eberhard Schongarthright Dr. Karl Eberhard Schongarth (1903 - 1946) was a Nazi German associated with the Holocaust during World War II. Schongarth was born in 1903 in the town of Leipzig. He became a member of the SD Sicherheitsdienst Intelligence Service of the SS Schutzstaffel in 1933. He was later made head of SIPO Sicherheitspolizei Security Police . He was then appointed Commander of the Gestapo in the Netherlands. During the time he was stationed in Krakow, Poland, he formed an Einsatzgruppen Special Action Group. He was responsible for the murder of up to 4,000 Jewish citizens between July and September of 1941. He attended the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, along with Dr Rudolf Lange (Einsatzgruppen A) who also had participated in genocide. Schongarth was captured at the end of the war. He was found guilty of executing a downed Allied pilot (which occurred on November 21, 1944) by a British Court in Burgsteinfurt on February 11, 1946. He was executed on May 16, 1946. Schongarth, Karl Eberhard Schongarth, Karl Eberhard Schongarth, Karl Eberhard Schongarth, Karl Eberhard
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