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    Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

    German politician and SS functionary

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  1. World War I. Silesian Uprisings. World War II. Nazi security warfare. Warsaw Uprising. Awards. Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski (born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski; 1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany of Kashubian - Polish origin.

  2. After 1934, he commanded SS and Gestapo units in East Prussia and Pomerania. In 1939, Erich von Dem Bach Zelewski was promoted to the rank of SS General and two years later became a General of the Waffen-SS assigned to the Central Army Group on the Russian front until the end of 1942.

  3. Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski or Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972), was a Nazi leader and a member of the SS, where he had the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. Although he was involved in the killing of thousands of people in Poland and Russia, he was never charged with war crimes.

  4. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was SS Obergruppenführer during the war and served as Higher SS and Police leader (Höhere SS und Polizeiführer) in the central part of occupied western Russia, hence basically today’s Belorussia.

  5. In 1941, SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski told his superior Heinrich Himmler that the Nazis had been murdering Jews, including women and children, at close range and in cold blood...

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  7. SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski was responsible for antipartisan warfare on the Eastern Front during the war and boasted in writing, “There isn’t a Jew left in Estonia!” He also testified for the Allied prosecution at Nuremberg and died at Munich-Harlaching on March 8, 1972, long after most of his fellow co-conspirators.

  8. Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany of Kashubian-Polish origin. During World War II, he was in charge of the Nazi security warfare against those designated by the regime as ideological enemies and any other persons deemed to present danger to the Nazi rule or Wehrmacht's rear security in ...

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