Walter Nerich ( German: Walter Nährich ; August 30, 1909 - April 9, 1993 ) - SS Hauptsturmfuhrer [1] , a war criminal, deputy commander of the Security Police and SD in Bordeaux . After the war, he was convicted in absentia in France, but lived in Germany and was not brought to justice.
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Biography
Activities during World War II
Before the war, he worked as a government assistant in the Ministry of the Interior in the Saar region , then in the military administration in occupied France . Since the summer of 1942 he was deputy commander of the security police and SD in the city of Bordeaux . In this position, he led the deportation of Jews from this area to concentration camps. He participated in a meeting of the head of the Jewish Department in France, , where deportation was called euphemism "expulsion" [2] . In 1944 he was sent to the Eastern Front, where in 1945 he was captured by the Soviet Union, but was not identified due to the fact that he changed into the Luftwaffe uniform and called himself a false name. After an accident at work in 1947, he was released [3] .
Post-War Career
During the denazification was classified as a "follower." He studied law and in 1950 received a doctorate in law at the University of Bonn [4] . He worked in the construction company of his father-in-law, which he headed in 1956 [4] . In 1969, he closed the construction business and moved with his family to Saarland . There he tried to obtain permission for future retirement as a former government adviser; as a result, the decision was successfully made in 1976 [5] .
Arrest in France and Trial in Germany
In 1952 he was sentenced in absentia to death by a French court in Metz [6] . Unaware of this, Nerich went to France and arrived in Bordeaux, where he was identified and arrested. When he was temporarily released from custody, he managed to escape to Germany . He ignored the request of the Ministry of Justice to return to France . There he was again sentenced in absentia, but already to three years in prison [7] . Subsequent trials in Germany led to indictment in 1983, but the 74-year-old defendant was found to be incapable of trial. The investigation against him was stopped, and he again began to receive a pension [8] . During interrogations and speaking as a witness at a trial in 1983, Nerih claimed that the deported people were sent to work in the East and that he did not know anything about their destruction, although it was proved that among the sent people there were old people and small children [ 9] . He died in 1993 [8] .
Notes
- ↑ 100 frs pro Jude (German) // Der Spiegel . - 1983 .-- 28 Märzes.
- ↑ Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 246.
- ↑ Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 96-97.
- ↑ 1 2 Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 172.
- ↑ Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 172-173.
- ↑ Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 97.
- ↑ Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 97, 172.
- ↑ 1 2 Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 174.
- ↑ Bernhard Brunner, 2004 , S. 384, 246-247.
Literature
- Bernhard Brunner. Der Frankreich-Komplex. Die nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen in Frankreich und die Justiz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. - Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2004 .-- ISBN 3-89244-693-8 .
- Ernst Klee. Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich . Wer war was vor und nach 1945. - Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2007 .-- S. 427. - ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .