Instrumental in the Holocaust in France, Zeitschel served as adviser on Jewish affairs to the German Embassy in Paris and as such was one of the organisers of the deportations of Jews from occupied France during World War II.
12 Facts About Carltheo Zeitschel
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Carltheo Zeitschel served in the colonial policy department at the Nazi Party headquarters.
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Carltheo Zeitschel was a member of the Schutzstaffel holding the rank of Sturmbannfuhrer while in Paris.
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Carltheo Zeitschel was a member of the Sonderkommando Kunsberg, the special unit controlled by the Foreign Office and in particular by the Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, which systematically pillaged cultural and art treasures and other items of political interest from the territories occupied by Germany.
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Carltheo Zeitschel was then tasked by ambassador Abetz to loot and then close the foreign missions in Paris, to plunder Jewish art collections and galleries, and to transfer the booty "to the custody of the German embassy".
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Carltheo Zeitschel was informed in top secret processes and knew about the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942.
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Carltheo Zeitschel applied the minutes of the proceedings from junior state secretary Ernst Woermann for the deportation of French Jews.
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Carltheo Zeitschel gave Abetz to late summer of 1941 in which he proposed a memorandum on the way to Berlin.
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Carltheo Zeitschel left the bridgehead after Rommel's defeat and the Axis surrender in the Tunisian Campaign in May 1943.
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Until July 1944 Carltheo Zeitschel was back at the German Embassy in Paris.
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Carltheo Zeitschel worked out a project for the reorganization of the Paris police in the service of the occupier.
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Carltheo Zeitschel was killed in 1945 in a bomb attack in Berlin.