Otto Ohlendorf

Otto Ohlendorf (born the February 4th 1907 in Hoheneggelsen and dead the June 7th 1951 with Landsberg amndt Lech) is leading a German S. S - Gruppenführer, it was responsible for tens of thousands of murder within the framework of the Shoah and condemned to died for that to the Procès of Nuremberg.

Beginnings

Born in Hoheneggelsen close to Hildesheim in Germany, wire of a farmer, it joined in 1925 the Nazi party, then the S in 1926. He studies the right and the saving at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen. With the beginning of the year 1936 it becomes consulting economic for SD, and it is also attached to the S with the rank of S - Hauptsturmführer. In May 1936, it is promoted S - Sturmbannführer, then S - Standartenführer in 1939. As from this year it is named chief of Amt III of RSHA, a station which it will occupy until in 1945.

Role during the war

In June 1941, Ohlendorf was named chief of the Einsatzgruppe D by Reinhard Heydrich. Under its command, the Einsatzgruppen D was responsible for the massacre of 90.000 people, of which one of most known is that which took place with Simferopol, and which cost the life more than 14.300 people, mainly of the Jews (Ohlendorf recognized all these facts during the Procès of Nuremberg).

With the end of the year 1943, Ohlendorf became deputy secretariat with the Economy of Reich. It was in charge of the plans of coordination of the rebuilding of the German economy at the end of the war. Because of this station and its work on this subject, much of requests for graces were presented at the time of its judgment to Nuremberg, but they were rejected by the Allies.

In 1944, it is promoted S - Gruppenführer.

The lawsuit of Nuremberg and its death

During the Lawsuit of Nuremberg against the chiefs of the Einsatzgruppen, it does not express any remorse, and seems more worried by the moral one of those which organized executions of the Jews and the opponents that state of those which were carried out. He is condemned to died and hung the June 7th 1951.

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