1. Heinz Reinefarth was a German SS commander during World War II and government official in West Germany after the war.
18 Facts About Heinz Reinefarth
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Polish demands for extradition were never accepted, and Heinz Reinefarth was never convicted of any war crime.
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Heinz Reinefarth became a member of the student fraternity.
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Heinz Reinefarth graduated in 1927 and passed the 1st degree state exams.
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Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Heinz Reinefarth was conscripted as a reserve Feldwebel.
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Heinz Reinefarth took part in the 1940 campaign against France, for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
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On 29 January 1944, Heinz Reinefarth was assigned to be SS and Police Leader in Reichsgau Wartheland.
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From 5 August 1944, Heinz Reinefarth's group took part in mass murders in the undefended Wola area.
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In two days, the units of Heinz Reinefarth, which included the notorious SS-Sonderregiment Dirlewanger under SS-Oberfuhrer Oskar Dirlewanger, murdered approximately 60,000 civilian inhabitants of Warsaw in what is known as the Wola massacre.
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In one of his reports to the commander of the German 9th Army Heinz Reinefarth stated that "we have more prisoners than ammunition to kill them".
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In November 1944, Heinz Reinefarth was given command over the XIV SS Corps on the Upper-Rhine and in December 1944 over the XVIII SS Corps in the central Oder river area.
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Heinz Reinefarth declined to defend it to the last man and Hitler found fault with the way he withdrew his troops.
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Himmler, acting on Hitler's order, had Heinz Reinefarth arrested at the end of March 1945.
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Heinz Reinefarth moved his troops to the west and surrendered to the British.
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Heinz Reinefarth had by then secretly been recruited by the CIC, the Intelligence Service of the US Army, for consultation on Soviet military tactics.
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Heinz Reinefarth was considered not guilty in the eyes of the law and the federal government.
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Heinz Reinefarth died on 7 May 1979 in his mansion on Sylt.
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The regional Schleswig-Holstein government issued a special statement expressing regret that Heinz Reinefarth had been allowed to work as politician in the region.