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Otto Ohlendorf (German pronunciation: [ˈɔtoː ˈʔoːləndɔʁf]; 4 February 1907 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. An economist by education, he was head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Inland , responsible for intelligence and security within Germany.
Here I look at the case of Otto Ohlendorf (1907-1951), the leader of one of the Einsatzgruppen, the SS Special Task Forces assembled by Reinhard Heydrich for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
Another popular leaflet was a catalogue of the “good deeds” of Otto Ohlendorf who, by his own uncontroverted testimony, was responsible for slaughtering 60,000 Jews and Gypsies. Little or nothing was said in print or on the air about the crimes committed by these men.
Otto Ohlendorf (4 Feb. 1907 – 7 June 1951), SS Gruppenführer, was head of Office III (SD-Inland, Internal Security Service) of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt). Just prior to the war against the Soviet Union, he was appointed head of Einsatzgruppe D, a position he held for a year.
Ohlendorf finished the war as the chief of Amt III of the Reich Security Main Office. Placed on trial for war crimes in 1947, former SS officer Otto Ohlendorf listens to court proceedings. Ohlendorf was sentenced to death and later executed.
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.
Otto Ohlendorf, et al.. Case #9 is usually referred to as the Einsatzgruppen Case. The 24 defendants in Case #9 were all leading members of Einsatzgruppen that operated on the Eastern Front during World War II. The Einsatzgruppen were special task forces of the SS and Police.
