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Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff (19 June 1906 – 14 May 1984) was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Service ( Sicherheitsdienst or SD ), later in the Reich Security Main Office.
May 15, 1984 · Walter Herman Julius Rauff, a former Nazi SS colonel accused of directing the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews in mobile gassing vans in World War II, died of natural causes yesterday in...
Feb 8, 2019 · Walter Rauff, born in 1906 in Germany, rose through the Nazi military and party ranks in the lead-up to World War II and became responsible for the deaths of around 100,000 Jewish, Roma, and disabled people in Eastern Europe, North Africa and Italy between 1942 and 1945.
Dec 27, 2017 · Walter Rauff was an SS colonel who oversaw the mobile gas chambers that killed 100,000 Jews during World War II. He escaped from an American POW camp and fled to Ecuador, where he was protected by the dictator Pinochet until his death in 1984.
Walter Rauff was a member of the Reich Security Main Office, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, a department of the SS created by Heinrich Himmler in 1939. Rauff was involved in the development of “ Gassing Vans ”: mobile gas chambers used to fatally poison Jews, persons with disabilities, and communists, who were considered by the SS as ...
Walter Rauff was the head of a subdepartment of the Reich Security Main Office that allegedly supplied gas vans to the Einsatzgruppen behind the Eastern front. He claimed to have learned about the Führer order to exterminate the Jews only after the war, and he denied any knowledge of the gas vans' use for killing Jews.
Sep 27, 2011 · Newly-released files have uncovered evidence that the BND, West Germany's international intelligence service, sheltered former SS officer Walter Rauff and made him an agent after the war, even...
