31 Facts About Arthur Nebe

In late 1941, Arthur Nebe was posted back to Berlin and resumed his career with the RSHA.

Arthur Nebe commanded the Kripo until he was denounced and executed after the failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

Arthur Nebe attained the rank of police inspector in 1923 and police commissioner in 1924.

Arthur Nebe was a conservative nationalist, who embraced the shift of the country to right-wing rule in the 1930s.

Arthur Nebe became the Nazis' liaison in the criminal police in Berlin, with links to an early Berlin SS group led by Kurt Daluege.

In 1935, Arthur Nebe was appointed head of the Prussian Criminal Police.

Arthur Nebe obtained the rank of SS-Gruppenfuhrer and Generalleutnant of Police on 9 November 1941.

Arthur Nebe was appointed head of the RKPA, reporting to Heydrich.

Kripo's stated mission, which Arthur Nebe embraced, was to "exterminate criminality".

In 1939, Arthur Nebe lent a commissioner of his Criminal Police Office, Christian Wirth of Stuttgart, to the Action T4, which ran the programme of involuntary euthanasia of the disabled.

Arthur Nebe wanted to include sending Berlin's "Gypsies" to the planned reservations for the Jews and others in the east.

Arthur Nebe volunteered to command Einsatzgruppe B, an SS death squad that operated in the Army Group Center Rear Area as the invasion progressed.

Around 5 July 1941, Arthur Nebe consolidated Einsatzgruppe B near Minsk, establishing a headquarters and remaining there for two months.

Arthur Nebe reported that the killings were being brought into smooth running order and that the shootings were carried out "at an increasing rate".

Arthur Nebe told Heydrich that he was concerned about the SS men's mental health.

Himmler turned to Arthur Nebe to devise a more "convenient" method of killing, particularly one that would spare executioners elements of their grisly task.

Arthur Nebe decided to try experimenting by murdering Soviet psychiatric patients, first with explosives near Minsk, and then with automobile exhaust at Mogilev.

One night after a party, Arthur Nebe had driven home drunk, parked in his garage, and fallen asleep with the engine running, nearly dying of carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust fumes.

Arthur Nebe gave the signal to detonate, but the resultant explosion failed to kill the patients.

Arthur Nebe discussed the idea's technical aspects with a specialist from Kripo's Technology Institute and together they brought the proposal to Heydrich, who approved it.

Arthur Nebe's talk focused on the SD's role in the common fight against "partisans" and "plunderers".

Arthur Nebe covered the "Jewish question" and its connection to the suppression of resistance movements in occupied territories.

Arthur Nebe's report dated 9 October 1941 stated that, due to suspected partisan activity near Demidov, all male residents aged 15 to 55 were put in a camp to be screened.

Arthur Nebe served in this capacity until January 1943, when he was replaced by Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

In March 1944, after the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp, Arthur Nebe was ordered by Heinrich Muller, Chief of the Gestapo, to select and kill 50 of the 73 recaptured prisoners in what became known as the "Stalag Luft III murders".

Also in 1944, Arthur Nebe suggested that the Roma interned at Auschwitz would be good subjects for medical experiments at the Dachau concentration camp, after Himmler had asked Ernst-Robert Grawitz, a high-ranking SS physician, for advice.

Arthur Nebe was arrested in January 1945 after a former mistress betrayed him.

Arthur Nebe was sentenced to death by the People's Court on 2 March and, according to official records, was executed in Berlin at Plotzensee Prison on 21 March 1945 by being hanged from a meat hook, in accordance with Hitler's order that the bomb plotters were to be "hanged like cattle".

Robert Gellately writes that Arthur Nebe's views were virulently racist and antisemitic.

Arthur Nebe discusses the role of Henning von Tresckow and his adjutant, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, who were members of the military opposition to Hitler, and writes:.

Nothing was said about the 45,467 murder victims of Einsatzgruppe B by November 1941, the point at which Arthur Nebe returned to Berlin.