Word: ohlendorf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood accused of the mass murder of more than a million people-people deemed "racially undesirable" by Adolf Hitler. This week, at Nürnberg's Palace of Justice, Presiding Judge Michael A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh handed down their sentences. For Major General Otto Ohlendorf and Brigadier General Erich Naumann and twelve other 55 (Elite Guard) officers: death by hanging. For Brigadier General Heinz Jost and Lieut. Colonel Gustav Nosske: life imprisonment. For Brigadier Generals Erwin Schulz and Franz Six, and an SS major: 20 years. Two field grade officers were sentenced to ten-year terms and the only...
There was more of the same from Major General of Police Otto Ohlendorf, a drab little man who matter-of-factly told the court that he had been responsible for killing 90,000 men, women & children in one year (June 1941-June 1942). These were the fruits of his Special Task Force D, one of several assigned to liquidate Communists and Jews. Task forces A, B, and C were said to have killed more people than his own D, reported Ohlendorf, but he suspected that they were just boasting...