1. Hermann Schaper, was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.
11 Facts About Hermann Schaper
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Hermann Schaper was a Holocaust perpetrator responsible for atrocities committed by the Einsatzgruppen in German-occupied Poland and the Soviet Union and was convicted after the war of numerous war crimes.
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Hermann Schaper achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmfuhrer on 20 April 1937.
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Hermann Schaper's superior was SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Hartmut Pulmer, a Gestapo chief based in Ciechanow.
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On 10 July 1941 Hermann Schaper's Einsatzgruppe was subdivided into dozens of smaller commandos numbering from several to several scores of people whose mission was to kill Jews, alleged communists and Soviet NKVD collaborators in captured territories often far behind the advancing German front.
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At the beginning of the 1960s, the war crimes committed by Hermann Schaper were investigated by the German Judicial Centre for Prosecuting Nazi Crimes in Ludwigsburg.
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Hermann Schaper was charged in 1964 with personally directing the Einsatzkommando responsible for the mass killing of Jews in the city.
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Hermann Schaper denied the charges, and the Germans found the evidence insufficient to prosecute him at that time.
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Hermann Schaper lied to interrogators that in 1941 he had been a truck driver and used false names.
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Hermann Schaper was retried in Germany in 1976 for other crimes against Poles and Jews and was sentenced to six years in prison, however following an appeal this was overturned and his health was declared too fragile for a new trial.
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Hermann Schaper was convicted along with Franz Hartmann, Hans Doermage, Kurt Baresel from the Gestapo station at Ciechanow for their complicity in holocaust-related crimes.