21 Facts About Carl Oberg

Carl Albrecht Oberg was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

Carl Oberg served as Senior SS and Police Leader in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris.

From May 1942, under orders from Reinhard Heydrich, Oberg ordered the execution of hundreds of hostages and the roundup and deportation of over 40,000 Jews from France to extermination camps, most infamously during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup with the assistance of the Vichy French police.

Carl Oberg was eventually released on 28 November 1962 and pardoned by President Charles de Gaulle.

Carl Albrecht Oberg was born in Hamburg on 27 January 1897, the son of a physician and professor of medicine Prof.

Carl Oberg's enlistment was postponed, he then achieved his war Abitur in August 1915 and was assigned to the artillery, serving as battery officer with Lauenburgisches Feld-Artillerie-Regiment Nr.

Carl Oberg worked in manufacturing as a branch manager after the war until he was laid off in 1930.

Carl Oberg joined the Nazi Party on 1 April 1931 and the SS on 7 April 1932.

Carl Oberg was later promoted to an SS-Oberfuhrer and made the police administrator for Hanover.

Carl Oberg served in that capacity from September 1938 until January 1939, then serving as police president of Zwickau until late 1941.

Carl Oberg was SS-und Polizeifuhrer, "Radom" from August 1941 to May 1942.

Carl Oberg received a promotion to SS-Brigadefuhrer on 20 April 1942.

From 5 May 1942 to 28 November 1944, Carl Oberg served as Higher SS and Police Leader "Frankreich" over all German police forces in France, including the SD and the Gestapo.

Carl Oberg was the supreme authority in France for managing anti-Jewish policy and the battle against the French Resistance.

On Heydrich's orders, Carl Oberg deported over 40,000 Jews from the country with the assistance of the Vichy France police force headed by Rene Bousquet.

In 1944, Carl Oberg blocked an attempt to establish an Einsatzkommando of the Waffen-SS in France.

Carl Oberg was captured in June 1945 in the mountains near Kitzbuhel by the US military.

Carl Oberg had been disguised as a private in the Austrian Army.

Carl Oberg was sentenced to death by a British court before receiving another death sentence from the French in October 1954.

On 20 November 1962, Carl Oberg was pardoned by President Charles de Gaulle and set free on 28 November 1962.

Carl Oberg then was repatriated to Flensburg, in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, at the time, according to Die Zeit, a stronghold of former Nazis and SS cadres.