Torturer/Murderer - Nicknamed "The Tiger of Auschwitz", Wilhelm Boger was the son of a merchant. He joined the Hitler youth while in his teens and after he completed high school in 1922, and worked as a clerk for his father for approximately three years. In 1925 Boger took an office job in Stuttgart at the German National Clerk's Federation. He entered the Artamanen-Bund (voluntary work service) and joined the Nazi Party in 1929. In 1930 he joined the bodyguard of the Nazi party, the SS. Boger lost his regular job in 1932 and joined the Auxiliary Police at Friedrichshafen and in July 1933 to the political police, in Stuttgart, completing his police training school in 1937. Soon thereafter, Bogar was appointed as a Police Commissioner regardless of the fact he had been arrested for mistreating a prisoner during an interrogation in 1936. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Boger was transferred to the state police lead office at Zichenau. He was placed in charge of setting up and supervising the border police station in Ostroleka, Poland, three weeks later. In 1940 Boger transferred to the 2nd SS Police Engineer unit and was subsequently wounded in battle. After his recovery, Boger was sent to the infamous Auschwitz Concentration Camp and attached to the camp's "political department". The Political Department was the representative of the RSHA in the camp and its chief responsibilities were to keep files on individual prisoners, the reception of prisoners, maintaining the security of the camp, combating internal resistance and conducting interrogations. While at Auschwitz, Boger created an interrogation method called the "Boger Swing", wherein a prisoner was bent over an iron bar suspended from the ceiling. Then the man or woman was manacled; wrist to ankles and hosted a foot or two off the floor and pushed so as to swing back and forth. While this occurred, Boger would ask the prisoner questions in a calm voice and the prisoner would be struck with a crowbar across their buttocks, back and legs. As the questioning intensified, Boger's voice would become harsher, rising to the point where he was yelling questions and statements to the prisoner. The prisoners flesh would be flayed open from the sharp edges of the crowbar resulting in massive trauma to the tissue and, eventually, death. These crimes were committed on the prisoners of the camp until sometime in January, 1945 when Auschwitz was abandoned due to the approaching Red Army. June 1946, Boger was detained in Ludwigsburg where his parents where living but later escaped. From 1948 until mid 1949, he worked as a farm hand near Stuttgart and was again briefly detained in Ravensburg for the mistreatment of the prisoner he interrogated back in 1936 but soon released. After his release, Boger apparently felt he was safe as he lived under his real name in Hemmingen near Leonberg with his family. He obtained employment as the supervisor of supplies at at a factory owned by the airplane manufacturer, Heinkel in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, where he was born. He performed well at his job and was promoted to an office job but was arrested in October 1958 by the De-Nazification Court who found him to basically be a good man and released him. In 1959 he was once again arrested and this time was charged with war crimes for the atrocious acts committed at Auschwitz. On August 20, 1965, he became part of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials for aiding and abetting the murder of Jews. After a series of eyewitness' testimony, Boger was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in at least 5 cases, collective murder in at least 109 cases and collective help for collective murder. He served the rest of his life in prison, dying in 1977. Reportedly, when asked about his activities at Auschwitz, Boger did not present a very fanciful defense; he merely stated that during that time he did not have very good scruples.