1. Bruno Streckenbach was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.
17 Facts About Bruno Streckenbach
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Bruno Streckenbach was the head of Administration and Personnel Department of the Reich Security Main Office.
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Bruno Streckenbach was born in Hamburg, Germany on 7 February 1902.
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Bruno Streckenbach was employed as a wholesale merchant, tried his hand at advertising, being a radio editor and trying to establish himself as the director of a local office.
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Bruno Streckenbach ordered all enemies of the Third Reich to be deported to concentration camps and there to be executed.
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Bruno Streckenbach had commissioned the Personnel and Administration Office Leaders, advising them to prepare for deployment.
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In May 1941, Bruno Streckenbach called on his long-time colleague Erwin Schulz to prepare his men in the Leadership School of the Security Police in Berlin-Charlottenberg for deployment after just having completed their training as Criminal Police inspectors.
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Bruno Streckenbach sent them to Pretzsch, where they were to assume leadership status of the Einsatzkommando.
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Extremely disappointed, nonetheless, Bruno Streckenbach declined and in a personal letter to Himmler, requested to be placed in a military position.
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Bruno Streckenbach trained in Hilversum, Holland with an antitank unit in the beginning of 1943, and quickly advanced through the ranks of the Waffen-SS, even for being a senior SS leader.
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Bruno Streckenbach was a regiment and division leader of the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer and went on to lead the 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in the offensive against the Soviet Union in 1944 as a general.
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Bruno Streckenbach served his sentence at Vladimir Central Prison, and remained a Soviet prisoner of war until 9 October 1955, when he was sent back to Hamburg.
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When Bruno Streckenbach returned to Hamburg, he was informed that he faced charges for actions he had taken as the city's Gestapo chief.
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Bruno Streckenbach was accused of beating someone in the kidneys; however after further investigation, the state prosecutor could not obtain the appropriate documents which provided evidence of the charges.
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Bruno Streckenbach, who was suffering from serious heart disease at the time, claimed ineligibility notwithstanding the strains a trial might place on his health.
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Bruno Streckenbach never had to answer for his part in the Nazi regime.
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Bruno Streckenbach died on 28 October 1977 in Hamburg, Germany.