Julius Dettmann

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Julius Dettmann
Born
Julius Dettmann

(1894-01-23)January 23, 1894
National Socialist German Workers Party
(Nazi Party)

Julius Dettmann (January 23, 1894 – July 25, 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD), known as the officer who had Anne Frank and her relatives and friends arrested and deported while they were hiding in the secret annex.[1]

Detmann served in the German Army during the First World War.

German occupation of the Netherlands and was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
(lieutenant) on November 9, 1942.

On August 4, 1944, he received a phone call reporting that there were

NSB plain-clothes officers raided the building and arrested the eight people in hiding who, after questioning at SD headquarters, were deported to the Westerbork transit camp
and from there, to various labour and concentration camps.

Dettmann was also in charge of the execution of fifteen resistance fighters, among them Johannes Post, an idol of the Dutch Resistance. The execution took place July 16, 1944, near Overveen. After the war in Europe ended, Dettmann was arrested in the Netherlands and remained a prisoner of war. However, he hanged himself in Amsterdam at the Havenstraat prison on July 25, 1945, at 4am, before being taken to court.[3]

He was buried July 31, 1945, at the Noorder Begraafplaats cemetery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On August 17, 1956, his remains were transferred to Ysselsteyn German war cemetery.

References

  1. ^ Richard Schoutissen (26 January 2022). "Julius Dettmann". Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers.
  2. ^ Schoutissen, Richard (26 January 2022). "SS-Obersturmführer Julius Dettmann". oorlogsslachtoffers.
  3. ^ "Karl Josef Silberbauer (Dutch)". Het verraad van Anne Frank. Retrieved 14 June 2014.