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Walter Friedrich Schellenberg (16 January 1910 – 31 March 1952) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.He rose through the ranks of the SS, becoming one of the highest ranking men in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and eventually assumed the position as head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.
Colonel Martini was the alias of Dr. Max de Crinis, an SS officer involved in the euthanasia program "mercy killing", in the Central Tiergartenstraße 4, in 1939–1941. [ 15 ] Captain von Seidlitz was the alias of SS- Sturmbannführer von Salish, a long-serving SD officer trusted by Walter Schellenberg [ 16 ]
Born 24 April 1897. Killed SA leader Ernst Röhm July 1934. SS-Totenkopf Officer then Commander of the NCO School of the Waffen-SS in Arnhem (the Netherlands). In 1957, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a West German court for his part in Röhm's murder. Died 1 September 1969 2 968 10 March 1931 246 989 Enno Lolling: Born 19 July 1888.
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 ...
SS-Oberscharführer: Staff sergeant [5] [6] Herbert Floss: SS-Scharführer: Sergeant [6] Erich Fuchs: 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 ...
Walter Schmitt (13 January 1879 – 18 September 1945) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS who served as the Chief of the SS Personnel Main Office. He was also a member of the Reichstag from 1943 to 1945.
At the end of the war, some SS men stood trial in a French Military Court at Lille. [2] They were sentenced to death; later their sentences were commuted to imprisonment. The last prisoner, Walter Hauck, was released in July 1957. Hauck also instigated a similar massacre in Leskovice in May 1945.
The first camp commandant, SS Sturmbannführer Herbert Lange, was killed in action on April 20, 1945, near Berlin. The second head of Chełmno, Hauptsturmführer Hans Bothmann who made substantial improvements to the killing method in the final phase of the camp operation, committed suicide in British custody in April 1946.