Carl Oberg
Carl Albrecht Oberg | |
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Criminal penalty | British Military Death; commuted to life imprisonment French Military Death; commuted to life imprisonment; further commuted to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour |
SS service | |
Nickname(s) | The Butcher of Paris |
Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
Service/ | Schutzstaffel |
Years of service | 1933–1945 |
Rank | SS-Obergruppenführer |
Commands held |
Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German
Arrested by American military police in
Early life
Carl Albrecht Oberg was born in Hamburg on 27 January 1897, the son of a physician and professor of medicine. In August 1914, he enlisted in the army and was assigned to the artillery, serving as battery officer. In November 1915, he was commissioned as a Leutnant fighting on the Western Front and was awarded the Iron Cross in both classes. He worked in manufacturing as a branch manager after the war until he was laid off in 1930.[1]
Nazi career
He joined the
From 5 May 1942 to 28 November 1944,
On 18 January 1943, Himmler demanded a cleansing of
Post-war trial, sentence, and reprieve
Oberg was captured in June 1945 in the mountains near
Notes
- Pierre Mendes France the pardon of Oberg (and Helmut Knochen) was a demand of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d Yerger 1997, p. 103.
- ^ a b Yerger 1997, p. 51.
- ^ Longerich 2012, p. 631.
- ^ Mitchell 2013.
- ^ Fox 1996.
- ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 51, 103.
- ^ Marrus & Paxton 1995.
- ^ Longerich (2012), p. 651.
- ^ Longerich 2012, pp. 650–3.
- ^ Time 5 May 1958.
- ^ L'Obs 2015.
- ^ Zeit Online.
Sources
- (in German) Birn, Ruth Bettina, Die höheren SS- und Polizeiführer. Himmlers Vertreter im Reich und in den besetzten Gebieten Düsseldorf 1986 (Seite 252ff, 341)
- (in German) Lappenküper, Ulrich Der "Schlächter von Paris". Carl-Albrecht Oberg als Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Frankreich (1942–1944) in: Deutschland und Frankreich im Krieg (Nov. 1942 – Herbst 1944). Okkupation, Kollaboration, Résistance Hg. S. Martens, M. Vaisse, Bonn: Bouvier, 2000 (Seite 129–143)
- (in German) Die faschistische Okkupationspolitik in Frankreich (1940–1944) Dokumentenauswahl. Hg. und Einl. Ludwig Nestler. Berlin: ISBN 3-326-00297-1(zahlreiche Einträge im Index)
- Weiß, Hermann, ed. (2002). Biographisches Lexikon zum Dritten Reich (in German). Frankfurt: Fischer. ISBN 3596130867.
- ISBN 978-0-19-965174-0.
- Marrus, Michael Robert; Paxton, Robert O. (1995). Vichy France and the Jews. Stanford University Press. pp. 244–5. ISBN 9780804724999.
- Yerger, Mark C. (1997). Allgemeine-SS: Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-0145-4.
- "Sparing the Butcher's Life". Time. 5 May 1958. Archived from the original on December 26, 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
- "Flensburg comrades". Zeit Online (in German). February 2001.
- Fox, John P. (1996). "How far did Vichy France 'sabotage' the imperatives of Wannsee?". In Cesarani, David (ed.). The Final Solution – Origins and Implementation. Routledge. p. 198. ISBN 0415152321.
- Mitchell, Allan (2013). Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940–1944. Berghahn Books. p. 159.
- "Quand la France graciait deux SS de haut rang". L'Obs (in French). 2015-08-05.
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