Kurt Machke ( German: Kurt Matschke May 4, 1908 , Domsel , Silesia , German Empire [1] - after 1966 ) - German officer, SS Hauptsturmfuhrer , commander of the Sonderkommando 7a . In 1966, a court in Essen sentenced him to 5 years in prison for war crimes.
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Biography
Kurt Machke was born on May 4, 1908 in Upper Silesia . He studied law at the University of Breslau . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and the SS [2] . In 1934, as a commissioner for criminal cases, he entered the Gestapo office in Lignice [2] . From December 1941 to February 1942 he was commander of the Sonderkommando 7a [3] . His unit was involved in the extermination of Jews in Belarus . Since 1942 he worked at the Gestapo in Cologne . In this position, he participated in the deportation of Jews to the concentration camps of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz [4] .
After the war
In 1948, the Burgsdorf court sentenced him to two years in prison for belonging to criminal organizations, and in 1954, a Cologne court sentenced Machke to two years in prison for involvement in the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. In 1965 he was again arrested and in 1966 by the Essen court sentenced to 5 years in prison for the extermination of Jews in Starodub [5] .
Notes
- ↑ MacLean, 1999 , S. 87.
- ↑ 1 2 Hans-Walter Herrmann, 1991 , S. 204.
- ↑ Bernward Dörner, 2006 , 791.
- ↑ Anne Klein, Jürgen Wilhelm. NS-Unrecht vor Kölner Gerichten nach 1945 . - Green Verlag, 2003 .-- S. 46 .-- 288 p. - ISBN 9783774303386 .
- ↑ Nazi Crimes on Trial case Nr 620 (English) . expofacto.nl . Date of treatment February 27, 2019.
Literature
- Christopher Robert Browning; Jürgen Matthäus. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 - March 1942. - London: Heinemann, 2004 .-- ISBN 0-434-01227-0 .
- Hans-Walter Herrmann, Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Gerhard Paul. Widerstand und Verweigerung im Saarland 1935-1945. - Dietz Verlag, 1991 .-- ISBN 978-3801250102 .
- French L. MacLean. The Field Men: the SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units. - Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 1999 .-- ISBN 0-7643-0754-1 .
- Bernward Dörner. Die Deutschen und der Holocaust: was niemand wissen wollte, aber jeder wissen konnte. - Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 2006 .-- ISBN 9783549073155 .
Links
- Matschke Kurt (1908-? ) . yadvashem.org . Yad Vashem . Date of treatment February 27, 2019.