15 Facts About Heinrich Klaustermeyer

Karl Heinrich Klaustermeyer was a German Nazi Party official who served in the Gestapo, NSKK, and SA.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer was released from prison in 1976 on health grounds due to terminal cancer and died less than two weeks later.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer joined the Nazi Party and the SA in 1932.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer later got a job as a messenger with the city of Bunde.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer joined the Wehrmacht in 1935 but was discharged on health grounds in 1937.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer gained a reputation for his ruthlessness towards Jewish people, who he sometimes shot arbitrarily and indiscriminately.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer participated in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 with commander Jurgen Stroop.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer was released in late 1947, only to be re-arrested for being a member of the Gestapo.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer then settled down in West Germany, getting married and getting a job as a driver.

In February 1961, Heinrich Klaustermeyer was exposed after his name was mentioned during the investigation of former Nazi official Ludwig Hahn.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer was arrested and admitted to having been a member of the Gestapo in Warsaw from 1941 to 1944.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer himself was put on trial as a war criminal in west Germany.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer's trial was supposed to start in 1963, but was delayed for Hahn's trial.

On 4 February 1965, Heinrich Klaustermeyer was found guilty of murdering nine Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Heinrich Klaustermeyer was sentenced to nine life terms with hard labor and ordered to permanently forfeit his civil rights.