Herbert Hagen

Herbert Martin Hagen was born with Neumünster the September 20th 1913. 23 years old it is returns to SD (Security service) where it will be sponsored by the professor Franz Six ideologist of the party Nazi. One year after its entry in the security service of the S, it is named chief of its antijuive section. At 24 years it is one of the youngest department head of RSHA.

The meeting

It will meet Adolf Eichmann there and together will go on a journey in Palestine. They leave Berlin the September 4th 1937 and arrive at Haïfa on October 3rd. From there they take the direction of Such aviv where an agent of the Haganah awaits them. Feivel Polkes of the armed forces of the Jewish settlers of Palestine probes both S. The two Nazis want to use the Sioniste S to sit their power with the the Middle East.
Mais Polkes is being wary, and will put them on false tracks. In 1938 Haganah breaks all the contacts with the Reich.

Of return in Germany, Hagen course country to preach its fine words everywhere; in the military tribunals, the police force, the militants Nazi, the academy of war, under officers S, firemen, lawyers training etc

At the time of a voyage to Prague the June 30th 1939 it will say to an interlocutor:

“the Jews have a capital influence in the culture and the Czech economy, it is pouquoi the goal of my voyage is to denounce the national leaders responasables EC unacceptable tolerance. And we will profit to still eliminate the politicians Czech in place.

I intend to present a capital idea soon: a Jew, even after a conversation keeps intact his fundamental characteristics. I thus make a point of inciting my listeners with most extreme prudence.”

Its stay in France

Graduate of the university of Berlin in 1940, former journalist, speaking quite French, it will belong to the special unit to be returned in France clandestinely in June 1940 with dimensions of Helmut Knochen.
It is appointed kommandor with Bordeaux with for objectives developing an establishment on the Atlantic dimension of Hendaye with the the Loire. It will be installed on the old yacht of the king of the Belgians which wets in the wearing of Bordeaux, abandoned following the rout.
In 1941, it will associate the Brittany in its surveillance zone.
Il load the French police force to carry out its orders, “to avoid a setting ahead too marked German services and a reversal against them. ” During the raids which it organizes, few people escape from it.

the May 5th 1942, he becomes the assistant of Karl Oberg with the 57 Boulevard Lannes in Paris where he acts as Head of State major to the direction of the department search for information (section VI) whose offices were located at the 76 Avenue Foch.

Collaborator of Eichmann, then anti-Jewish section head, it organized the raids with Bordeaux then in Paris.

the June 12th 1942:

“: 70000 Jews hide in Paris. It is necessary to deploy the forces necessary to clean the capital. the people taken in the raids will be off-set in the east at the latest the July 15th. ”

In August 1943 It aims at the dénaturalisations of the Jews with for objective of better being able to off-set them. Laval balks and Hagen rises.

“the S Brigadeführer Oberg esprime the great surprise which the French government still did not give up its " point of view of; sentimental" in the Jewish question.”

He will say later to a diplomat: “Our different has the most deplorable results. By your fault, we will never manage to solve the Jewish question in France. ”

Fernand de Brinon will write in its memories some time before its death:
“Oberg was a large Prussian, a shaven cranium not knowing anything France, nor of our mentality, not speaking our language and completely not dominated by a young officer S, major Hagen. This one had the advantage well of being expressed in French but the deplorable disadvantage of hating us and of nourishing against us a vigilant resentment. He maintained the intelligence agents and occupied to some extent the place of a Head of State very powerful major near the Oberg general. ”

After war

Condemned the March 18th 1955 by contumacy to the forced labors with perpetuity by the permanent court of the armed forces of Paris. The former officer S disappears and puts at the service French Forces in Germany then remade his life in Germany as business manager of an important company of switchgear the JWDAPP and will reside at Warstein (Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia) Wilhelmstrasse 32. In 1979, Herbert Hagen, Kurt Lischka and Ernst Heinrichsohn will be the three protagonists of the Procès of Cologne. In February 1980, he will be condemned to 12 years of detention to the prison of Hamm.

A a journalist who it interroge:

“I made only my duty, Sir, I acted in accordance with the legality which was at the time into force. ”

References

See also: Amorce=Pour to widen research to see:, Anti-semitism, Aloïs Brunner, Adolf Eichmann

Magazine Historia n°337 December 1974 by Philippe Aziz.
Magazine Historia Except Series n°26 1972 by Serge Klarsfeld.
Memories of Fernand de Brinon (foreword of Simone Mittre) Paris, ED. Déterna 1947

External bonds

Daily South-west
On Eichmann and Hagen

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