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Walter Blume (23 July 1906 – 13 November 1974) was a mid-ranking SS commander and leader of ''Sonderkommando'' 7a, part of the extermination commando group Einsatzgruppe B. The unit perpetrated the killings of thousands of Jews in Belarus and Russia.[1]

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  1. 86 relations: Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Affidavit, Amnesty, Anarchy, Anton Burger, Arthur Nebe, Athens, Auschwitz concentration camp, Axis occupation of Greece, Bar examination, Belarus, Berlin, Bremen, Capital punishment, Corfu, Coup de grâce, Crimes against humanity, David W. Peck, Düben, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Einsatzgruppen, Einsatzgruppen trial, Einsatzkommando, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Ernst Klee, Eugen Steimle, Execution by firing squad, Federal Foreign Office, Forced labour under German rule during World War II, German Empire, German war crimes, Gestapo, Gold bar, Gold teeth, Greek resistance, Haidari concentration camp, Halle (Saale), Hanover, Hauptsturmführer, Hermann Neubacher, History of the Jews in Greece, Inspector, Ioannina, Judenfrei, Klintsy, Kos, Landsberg Prison, Law, ... Expand index (36 more) »

  2. German occupation of Greece during World War II
  3. German police officers convicted of crimes against humanity
  4. Holocaust perpetrators in Belarus
  5. Holocaust perpetrators in Greece
  6. Holocaust perpetrators in Russia
  7. People sentenced to death by the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals

Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Adolf Eichmann are Nazis convicted of war crimes.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Affidavit

An italic (Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law.

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Amnesty

Amnesty is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." Though the term general pardon has a similar definition, an amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense.

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Anarchy

Anarchy is a form of society without rulers.

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Anton Burger

Anton "Toni" Burger (19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the German Nazi SS, Judenreferent in Greece (1944) and Lagerkommandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Anton Burger are Holocaust perpetrators in Greece.

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Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe (13 November 1894 – 21 March 1945) was a German SS functionary who held key positions in the security and police apparatus of Nazi Germany and was, from 1941, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Arthur Nebe are Holocaust perpetrators in Belarus.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Axis occupation of Greece

The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (the occupation) began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Kingdom of Greece in order to assist its ally, Italy, in their ongoing war that was initiated in October 1940, having encountered major strategical difficulties.

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Bar examination

A bar examination is an examination administered by the bar association of a jurisdiction that a lawyer must pass in order to be admitted to the bar of that jurisdiction.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bremen

Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (Kérkyra) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier with Albania.

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Coup de grâce

A coup de grâce ('blow of mercy') is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.

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David W. Peck

David W. Peck (December 3, 1902 – August 23, 1990) was an American jurist.

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Düben

Düben is a village and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm; Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany.

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Einsatzgruppen

Einsatzgruppen (also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.

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Einsatzgruppen trial

The Einsatzgruppen trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et al.) was the ninth of the twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity that the US authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.

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Einsatzkommando

During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front.

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Ernst Kaltenbrunner are Einsatzgruppen personnel, Gestapo personnel and lawyers in the Nazi Party.

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Ernst Klee

Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was a German journalist and author.

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Eugen Steimle

Eugen Steimle (8 December 1909 – 6 October 1987) was a German SS commander in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) during the Nazi era. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Eugen Steimle are Einsatzgruppen personnel, Holocaust perpetrators in Russia, people sentenced to death by the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals and sS-Standartenführer.

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Execution by firing squad

Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

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Federal Foreign Office

The Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), abbreviated AA, is the foreign ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, a federal agency responsible for both the country's foreign policy and its relationship with the European Union.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German war crimes

The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany (under Adolf Hitler) ordered, organized, and condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in the First and Second World Wars.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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Gold bar

A gold bar, also known as gold bullion or a gold ingot, refers to a quantity of refined metallic gold that can be shaped in various forms, produced under standardized conditions of manufacture, labeling, and record-keeping.

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Gold teeth

crown Gold teeth are a form of dental prosthesis where the visible part of a tooth is replaced or capped with a prosthetic molded from gold.

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Greek resistance

The Greek resistance (Ethnikí Antístasi "National Resistance") involved armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.

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Haidari concentration camp

The Haidari concentration camp (stratópedo syngéntrosis Chaidaríou; KZ Chaidari) was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Haidari concentration camp are German occupation of Greece during World War II.

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Halle (Saale)

Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (from the 15th to the 17th century: Hall in Sachsen; until the beginning of the 20th century: Halle an der Saale; from 1965 to 1995: Halle/Saale) is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the 31st-largest city of Germany, and with around 244,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg.

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Hanover

Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Hauptsturmführer

Hauptsturmführer (short: Hstuf) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Hermann Neubacher

Hermann Neubacher (24 June 1893 – 1 July 1960) was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Hermann Neubacher are German occupation of Greece during World War II.

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History of the Jews in Greece

The history of the Jews in Greece can be traced back to at least the fourth century BCE.

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Inspector

Inspector, also police inspector or inspector of police, is a police rank.

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Ioannina

Ioannina (Ιωάννινα), often called Yannena (Γιάννενα) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in northwestern Greece.

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Judenfrei

Judenfrei ("free of Jews") and judenrein ("clean of Jews") are terms of Nazi origin to designate an area that has been "cleansed" of Jews during The Holocaust.

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Klintsy

Klintsy (Клинцы́) is a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turosna River, southwest of Bryansk.

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Kos

Kos or Cos (Κως) is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea.

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Landsberg Prison

Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about west-southwest of Munich and south of Augsburg.

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower (born 20 February 1958) is a British historian.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nevel (town)

Nevel (Не́вель) is a town and the administrative center of Nevelsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on Lake Nevel southeast of Pskov, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Pawnbroker

A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

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Point-blank range

Point-blank range is any distance over which a certain firearm or gun can hit a target without the need to elevate the barrel to compensate for bullet drop, i.e. the gun can be pointed horizontally at the target.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Reich Security Main Office

The Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and, the head of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS).

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Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Reinhard Heydrich are Gestapo personnel.

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Rhodes

Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).

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Ruhr

The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Salzburg

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

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Sicherheitspolizei

The (Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police.

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Smolensk

Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow.

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Standartenführer

Standartenführer (short: Staf) was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) paramilitary rank that was used in several NSDAP organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

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Subsequent Nuremberg trials

The subsequent Nuremberg trials (also Nuremberg Military Tribunals; 1946–1949) were twelve military tribunals for war crimes committed by the leaders of Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Holocaust in Belarus

The Holocaust in Belarus refers to the systematic extermination of Jews living in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during its occupation by Nazi Germany in World War II.

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The Holocaust in Russia

The Holocaust in Russia is the Nazi crimes during the occupation of Russia (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) by Nazi Germany.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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University of Bonn

The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

The University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, FAU) is a public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.

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University of Jena

The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form Uni Jena), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

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University of Münster

The University of Münster (Universität Münster, until 2023 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Wilhelm Schepmann

Wilhelm Schepmann (17 June 1894 – 26 July 1970) was an SA general in Nazi Germany and the last Stabschef (Chief of Staff) of the original Nazi paramilitary branch, the SA. Walter Blume (SS officer) and Wilhelm Schepmann are prisoners and detainees of Germany.

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9th Army (Wehrmacht)

The 9th Army (9.) was a World War II field army.

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See also

German occupation of Greece during World War II

German police officers convicted of crimes against humanity

Holocaust perpetrators in Belarus

Holocaust perpetrators in Greece

Holocaust perpetrators in Russia

People sentenced to death by the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Blume_(SS_officer)

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