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Hans-Joachim "Achim" [1] [2] [3] Böhme (29 December 1929 – 4 September 2012) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). In the 1980s, he served as First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Halle, center of the GDR's large and important chemical industry, and eventually became a full member of the SED Politburo.
On 30 January 1936, he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer, then appointed SS-Sturmbannführer on 20 April 1937, and in 1938 became SS-Obersturmbannführer und Oberstleutnant der Polizei. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in spring 1939, Böhme was appointed the SiPo (Security Police) chief for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ...
Latvian Waffen-SS personnel killed in action (6 P) Pages in category "Waffen-SS personnel killed in action" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
Waffen-SS Officer and son-in-law of SS-Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser 1938 Arpad Wigand: SS and Police leader (SS-und Polizeiführer (SSPF)) in Warsaw from 4 August 1941 until 23 April 1943. Aide to Erich von dem Bach Zelewski. In 1981, Wigand was found guilty in Hamburg for war crimes and was sentenced to 12.5 years. 2999 30682 Werner ...
At any given point in time, the personnel at Sobibor extermination camp included 18-25 German and Austrian SS officers [1] and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front.
Others killed themselves after being captured. Those who committed suicide includes 8 out of 41 Nazi Party regional leaders who held office between 1926 and 1945, 7 out of 47 higher SS and police leaders, 53 out of 554 army generals, 14 out of 98 Luftwaffe generals, 11 out of 53 admirals in the Kriegsmarine, and an unknown number of junior ...
The Ulm Einsatzkommando trial (1958) was the first major trial of Nazi crimes under West German law (rather than by an international or military tribunal). Ten suspects, former members of the Einsatzkommando Tilsit, were charged for their involvement in war crimes committed in Lithuania, in 1941. [1]