May 16, 1943 - World War II: SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop put an end to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first mass uprising in Poland against the Nazi occupation during the Holocaust. As such, he was responsible for crushing the rebellion and restoring order in the ghetto; an action which cost the lives of thousands of innocent victims. After the close of the Second World War, Stroop was found guilty of war crimes and executed by the Polish authorities in 1952.
