Wilhelm Friedrich Boger (19 December 1906 – 3 April 1977), known as "The Tiger of Auschwitz",[1] was a German police commissioner and concentration camp overseer.

Born in Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart, Germany, as the son of a merchant, Boger joined the HJ (Hitler youth) in his teens.

After finishing high school ("Mittlere Reife") in 1922, he learned the trade of his father over the next 3 years and in 1925 took an office job in Stuttgart at the "Deutsch-Nationalen Handlungsgehilfenverband".

In 1940 he joined the 2nd SS and Police Engineer reserve unit ("Polizeipioniersbataillion") based in Dresden, from where he was dispatched to the front and subsequently wounded in 1942.

A guard at one side would shove him—or her—off across the chamber in a long, slow arc, while Boger would ask "questions," at first quietly, then barking them out, and at the last bellowing.

In the end a sack of [sic] bones and flayed flesh and fat was swept along the shambles of that concrete floor to be dragged away.

He had heretofore led a withdrawn life; when acquaintances or neighbors asked him about his activities at KZ Auschwitz, he would reply that he had done nothing worthy of regret.

She said that she found it hard to come to terms with the fact that the man who had killed a little boy and eaten his apple had placed a photo of her as a little girl on the wall of his prison cell.