Fritz Dietrich (Nazi)

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Fritz Dietrich
War crimes
TrialDachau trials
Criminal penaltyDeath
SS career
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service/branch Schutzstaffel
Years of service1936–1945
RankObersturmbannführer
Nazi police warning issued by Fritz Dietrich to the Jews of Liepāja to remain in their houses on December 15 and 16, 1941 (this was preparatory to their murder on those dates.)
Dietrich's warning (in Latvian)

Fritz Maria Josef Dietrich (6 August 1898 – 22 October 1948) was an Austrian SS officer and member of the

Dachau Military Tribunal
for ordering the killings of 7 American prisoners of war. He was found guilty of these murders and executed.

It is now known that Dietrich was responsible for organizing the Liepāja massacres, in which over 5,000 Jewish men, women, and children were massacred by the Germans and Latvian collaborators. Lesser numbers of Roma, Communists, and mentally ill people were also killed.

Nazi war crimes

After school, Dietrich fought in

SS in 1936. In 1934, he played a leading role in the July Putsch.[4]

In 1941 Dietrich held the rank of SS-

massacres of civilians in Liepāja, for the most part of Jewish ethnicity. The largest of the Liepāja massacres took place over three days from December 15 to December 17, 1941. On December 13, the newspaper Kurzemes Vārds published an order by Dietrich which required all Jews in the city to remain in their residences on Monday, December 15 and December 16, 1941, thus facilitating the killing operations.[5]

From April 1944 to the end of the war, Dietrich was the police chief of Saarbrücken.[6]

War crimes trial

After

Dachau Trials
for war crimes.

When asked if he had any last words, Dietrich showed a lack of remorse:

"In the conviction that my death for my passionately beloved fatherland, for which I worked and fought my entire life, will ultimately be of service, I go this last walk of sacrifice with a proud heart because I know that my sacrifice will contribute to fill the measure of suffering that has been imposed by a cruel victor over the German people without compelling reason."[9]

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-02-917425-2
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  2. ISBN 978-398114834-3
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  3. ^ Ezergailis 1996, p. 288.
  4. ^ Bundesarchiv R 9361-III/521320
  5. ^ Ezergailis 1996, pp. 296–4.
  6. ^ vgl. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 110
  7. ^ "Nazi Crimes on Trial". www.expostfacto.nl. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
  8. ^ Friedmann, Jan (23 June 2010). "Adolf Hitler's Time in Jail. Flowers for the Führer in Landsberg Prison". Spiegel Online.
  9. ISBN 978-0-19-993745-5
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References
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