Helmut Knochen
Helmut Knochen (1910 - 2003) was during the Second world war Chef of the police force of safety (SIPO) and of the security service (SD) for France , with row of S Standartenführer in the hierarchy S. It is implied in the massive French deportations Juif S towards the concentration camps, and was made responsible for the execution of several thousands of resistant French.
Biography
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1910 . March 14th, birth of Helmut Knochen in Magdeburg.
- 1926 . His/her father, Karl Knochen, teacher, captain of artillery and war veteran of Verdun, the fact of registering with the section of the “young people of Stahlhelm” (steel Heaume), nationalist organization.
- 1933 . Helmut Knochen adheres to SA.
- 1935 . After having been student in History and English at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen, it obtains a doctorate in philosophy, with a thesis on the English playwright George Colman. It occupies the functions of Professor and journalist. it enters as writer a local newspaper. It adheres to the Nazi party.
- 1936 . It joined the S. It follows the Olympic Games of 1936 and become acquainted with the doctor Six who directs the press service of Reinhard Heydrich.
- 1937 . He becomes officer S. He is sent to Paris to carry out a report on the World Fair; on its return to Berlin, it begins in the Renseignement .
- 1938 . It has the rank of lieutenant SS at the central service of safety (SD) of Berlin. It strips the newspapers there, in particular the articles written by the German emigrants in France, Belgium and in the Netherlands. It works out syntheses, very noticed.
- 1939 . Incidental of Venlo: in the night from November 8th to 9th, at the German-Dutch border, it captures two British agents of the MI6 and brings back them to Germany. For this exploit, Hitler personally gives the Military Cross to him of 1st and 2nd class.
- 1940 .
- *Le June 14th, it directs a special commando of a score of men chosen by Heydrich (of which Karl Boemelburg, of Gestapo), camouflaged as soldiers of the GFP, which is introduced in France and form the starter of what will become the powerful SIPO-SD in France
- * It is named commander-in-chief of the internal safety of Paris.
- 1941 . The occupying army, overflowed, lets Gestapo carry out the searchings and the arrests. Knochen is promoted with the rank of Oberführer at the thirty years age
- 1942 .
- *Les capacities of Knochen extends to the unit from the France occupied and to the Belgium.
- * It is promoted Standartenführer.
- * In April, it recovers the policing powers that, on request for Himmler, Hitler withdraws with the occupying army.
- 1944 .
- * July 20th. Helmut Knochen and the General Karl Oberg is stopped by the general Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel, who believes in the success of the attack against Adolf Hitler. After the failure of the coup d'etat, they are released.
- * At the end of July. The Allies are with the Mans, which gives the signal of the removal. Oberg decides to empty all the prisons and the camps to send the prisoners towards Germany.
- * August 15th. A convoy of 2500 deportees leaves France.
- * August 17th. Beginning of the removal of the services towards the East.
- * August 18th. 1600 prisoners are sent in Germany. SD leaves Paris for Vittel.
- * August 20th. Oberg and Knochen are in Vittel, but do not have great a deal to make. For them, the countryside is finished. Heinrich Himmler is not satisfied with their services; it estimates, like much S, that Paris rots all and that they were finer diplomats than good police officers.
- Helmut Knochen receives a convocation for Berlin with the seat of RSHA directed by Kaltenbrunner:
- “the war in the offices and the living rooms is finished for you, you besides will return this rank to me which had value only in Paris. You are from now on S Schütze (2èmeclasse) and you leave for the face! ”
- Knochen becomes private, a Waffen-SS of the the 1st division S Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler where it tries to become good Panzergrenadier on the army ground of Berreckan, close to Prague.
- Kaltenbrunner recalls it in its services which are overflowed of work, but Knochen will not be great utility because at the same time the troops Nazis fold up other with dimensions of the the Rhine.
- 1926 . His/her father, Karl Knochen, teacher, captain of artillery and war veteran of Verdun, the fact of registering with the section of the “young people of Stahlhelm” (steel Heaume), nationalist organization.
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*Occupation. Helmut Knochen is made prisoner by the American troops.
- 1946 . In Wuppertal (British zone of occupied Germany), he judged and is condemned in died by a British military tribunal for the murder of British pilots.
- 1947 . July 1st, he is extradited in France.
- 1954 . The October 9th, it is again condemned to death, by the French courts with Paris, for war crimes. It makes call of its sorrow. The president Vincent Auriol the pardoned one.
- 1958 . April 10th, the president Rene Coty commutes his sorrow to twenty years of imprisonment.
- 1962 . November 20th, the president De Gaulle releases it, little time before signing the Franco-German treaty of co-operation the January 22nd 1963.
- 1963 - 2003 .
- * Of return in Germany, it lives Baden-Baden, then Hahnenklee and Offenbach amndt Hand.
- * 1972. Lucien Steinberg carries out an interview for the Historia review. At this time, Kochen exerts the trade of broker in insurance-retirement in Frankfurt.
- * It Marie first once and has a son.
- * 1982. It Marie one second time.
- 2000 . In June - July, it grants a Hubert interview of Beaufort and J. pH Larrose
- 2003 . The April 4th, it dies in Offenbach amndt Hand (Germany).
- 1946 . In Wuppertal (British zone of occupied Germany), he judged and is condemned in died by a British military tribunal for the murder of British pilots.
Organization
The organization of the German police force in France between 1942 and 1944 included/understood:
- Supreme leader of the S and the police force (in the spring of the military Command in France) = Höhere S und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) . Hierarchically superior of Helmut Knochen.
- Chief of the police force of safety (SIPO) and of the security service (SD) = Befehlshaber of Sicherheitspolizei und der Sicherheitsdienstes (BdS)
- Subordinated of Helmut Knochen
Sources
See also: Amorce=Pour to widen research to see:, Anti-semitism, Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA
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