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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 Deputy Mayor of Leipzig and his wife and daughter, who committed suicide in the Neues Rathaus as U.S. troops were entering the city on 20 April 1945. During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide.
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 ...
SS-Scharführer: Sergeant [6] [11] Friedrich Gaulstich: SS-Scharführer: Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8] Anton Getzinger: SS-Oberscharführer: Staff sergeant, killed in an accident with a hand grenade in September 1943, several weeks before the revolt [6] Hubert Gomerski: SS-Unterscharführer: Corporal [5] [6] Siegfried Graetschus: SS ...
Hanns Bobermin (1903–1960), economic administrator for the SS, sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl trial, released in 1951. Franz Böhme (1885–1947), general in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, indicted for war crimes at the Nuremberg Hostages Trial, committed suicide in prison.
The Höcker Album (or Hoecker Album) is a collection of photographs believed to have been collected by Karl-Friedrich Höcker, an officer in the SS during the Nazi regime in Germany. It contains over one hundred images of the lives and living conditions of the officers and administrators who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex.
Died by suicide the night before his scheduled execution. [avalon 7] Rudolf Hess: G: G: I: I Life imprisonment Hitler's Deputy Führer until he flew to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to broker peace with the United Kingdom. Had been imprisoned since then. After trial, incarcerated at Spandau Prison, where he died by suicide in 1987. [avalon 8 ...
During the Dachau liberation reprisals, [Note 2] German SS troops were killed by outraged U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS guards were killed in the incident, but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50.