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'{{Infobox person |name = August Bogusch |image = August Bogusch.jpg |image_size = 150px |caption = August Bogusch |birth_name = August Raimond Bogusch |birth_date = {{birth date|1890|08|05|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Lubliniec]],[[Upper Silesia]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1948|01|28|1890|08|5|df=y}} (executed) |known_for = Defendant at the [[Auschwitz Trial]] |occupation = [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]-''[[Scharführer]]'' |party = [[National Socialist German Workers' Party]] (NSDAP) }} '''August Raimond Bogusch''' (5 August 1890 – 28 January 1948) was an [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]-''[[Scharführer]]'' and member of staff at [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]. He was prosecuted at the [[Auschwitz Trial]], sentenced to death and hanged. == Life == Bogusch was born in [[Lubliniec]], [[Upper Silesia]]. He joined the [[Nazi Party]] in October 1932 and the SS in April 1933 (number 51922). On 21 August 1939 he was drafted into the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände]] and was posted to [[Buchenwald concentration camp]]. He was at Auschwitz from 27 January 1941 to 18 January 1945, where he was - among other things - a ''Schutzhaftlagerführer'' (protective custody) guard and a ''Blockführer'' (''block leader''). After the evacuation of Auschwitz he was sent to Mysen concentration camp near [[Oslo]], and in February 1945, was transferred back to Buchenwald. He was also deployed to [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp]]. In the summer of 1943, Bogusch participated in the extermination process, where he selected Jews from arriving transports to the [[gas chamber]]s. During the occupation of Poland, the Polish underground declared on London radio that he would be punished by death. === After the war === Bogusch was captured by the Allies and released to the Polish authorities. He was tried by the [[Supreme National Tribunal]] in [[Kraków]] and [[Capital punishment|sentenced to death]]. His sentence was carried out by [[hanging]] in [[Montelupich Prison]], Kraków. == Bibliography == *Cyprian T., Sawicki J., ''Siedem wyroków Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego'', Poznań 1962 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogusch, August}} [[Category:1890 births]] [[Category:1948 deaths]] [[Category:Auschwitz trial executions]] [[Category:People from the Province of Silesia]] [[Category:Executed German people]] [[Category:Auschwitz concentration camp personnel]] [[Category:Buchenwald concentration camp personnel]] [[Category:Mauthausen concentration camp personnel]] [[Category:SS non-commissioned officers]] [[Category:People from Lubliniec]] [[Category:Executed people from Silesian Voivodeship]] [[Category:People convicted in the Auschwitz trial]]'