German member of the Nazi police and the SS. He held the rank of Obersturmbannführer. During the course of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he was the commander of Special Detachment 11b, which was in turn part of a Special Purpose Unit D. This unit, and three others similarly organized, have since come to be known by their German name of Einsatzgruppen. As commander of Special Detachment 11b, he organized and conducted mass murders of Jews in German-occupied areas of southern Ukraine and in the Crimea. For his role in these crimes, he was tried before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial, sentenced to death, and in 1951 was executed by hanging.
German member of the Nazi police and the SS. He held the rank of Obersturmbannführer. During the course of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he was the commander of Special Detachment 11b, which was in turn part of a Special Purpose Unit D. This unit, and three others similarly organized, have since come to be known by their German name of Einsatzgruppen. As commander of Special Detachment 11b, he organized and conducted mass murders of Jews in German-occupied areas of southern Ukraine and in the Crimea. For his role in these crimes, he was tried before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial, sentenced to death, and in 1951 was executed by hanging.
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