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Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff (19 June 1906 – 14 May 1984) was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany.From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst or SD), later in the Reich Security Main Office.
The vans themselves were modified by Walter Rauff, Friedrich Pradel and Harry Wentritt. [5] Matthias Beer calls gas vans "a special product of the Third Reich". [6] The use of gas vans by Germans to kill Jews, Poles, Romani people, the mentally ill people, and prisoners in occupied territories during World War II originated with Aktion T4 in 1939.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff: Proposed Einsatzkommando Egypt (Middle East) [19] [20] SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff: Planned for Jews resident in the Middle East, including Mandatory Palestine. Never organised. Proposed Einsatzgruppe (United Kingdom) [21] SS-Standartenführer Dr. Franz Six: Proposed.
Einsatzkommando headed by SS officer Walter Rauff in Tunis, North Africa. Einsatzkommando Finnland Officially the Einsatzkommando der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD beim AOK Norwegen, Befehlsstelle Finnland , Einsatzkommando Finnland was a German paramilitary unit active in northern Finland and northern Norway .
On 20 July 1942 Rauff was sent to Tobruk to report to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Commander of the Afrika Korps. Since Rommel was 500 km away at the First Battle of El Alamein, it is unlikely that the two met. [135] [136] The plans for Einsatzgruppe Egypt were set aside after the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. [137]
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Walter Rauff: June 19, 1906: May 14, 1984: 77 years, 330 days Close aide of Reinhard Heydrich. Group Leader II D of the RSHA (technical matters). Designed gas vans to poison Jews, and persons with disabilities. Einsatzkommando leader in North Africa (1942–43), SS and Gestapo commander in northwest Italy (1943–45).
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