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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 .
Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II.He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.
Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. [1] In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German ...
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 .
Despite the fear of the Gestapo after mass arrests and executions in the spring, the opposition still plotted and planned. One of the more famous schemes, Operation Valkyrie, involved a number of senior German officers and was carried out by Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
Yes/Yes (arrested/sentenced to life imprisonment by a Dutch court in 1948, escaped to Germany in 1952.) 20 January 1922: 24 May 2012: Germany Faber was a Dutch volunteer of the Waffen-SS and served in the Sonderkommando Feldmeijer, which targeted members of the Dutch resistance, opponents of Nazism and those who hid Jews.
SS functionary Walter Schellenberg said he had compiled the Black Book. The list was similar to earlier lists prepared by the SS, [6] such as the Special Prosecution Book-Poland (German: Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen) prepared before the Second World War by members of the German fifth column in cooperation with German Intelligence, and used to target the 61,000 Polish people on this list during ...
Walter Rauff – SS-Standartenführer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich. He escaped captivity at the end of the war, subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence. Hermann Rauschning – A Nazi leader in the Free City of Danzig. Walter Reder – SS-Sturmbannführer convicted of war crimes in Italy.