Heinz Lammerding / War criminal

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Heinz Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Lammerding (* 27 August 1905 in Dortmund; " 13 January 1971 in Duesseldorf) was an engineer as well as and major general of the weapon SS. As chief executive for the massacres of the 2. SS-tank-division "the realm "at French civilians in Oradour sur Glane and Tulle in June 1944, he was condemned by a French court in absence to death, never delivered however by the Federal Government at France. Gregory L. Mattson, '' SS-The realm. The History OF the Second SS division, 1939-45. Staplehurst 2002. , S. 182.ISBN 1-86227-144-5

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After its entrance into the SA and NSDAP (No. 722,395) Lammerding became soon director/conductor of the pioneer school of the SA. On 1 April 1935 it occurred the SS (No. 247,062) and in September to the was carried. By November 1940 until August 1942 it belonged to the staff of the to it an infantry regiment finally took over. After a short use in the staff of a tank corps he became chief of staff of Erich of the brook Zelewski, the boss of the gang fight federations.

Lammerding arranged the destruction of numerous villages and cities in the Soviet Union as At the end of of 1943 he got the command over a combat team of the 2. SS-tank-division "the realm "in the partisan fight. On 25 January 1944 finally the command over the entire division. According to max of Hastings it has to owe the appointment as the division commander of its close personal relationship with Heinrich Himmler, since its military abilities for it were not sufficient. Max Hastings, the realm. The March OF the 2nd SS tank division through France, June 1994. London 1981, S.36. ISBN 0-330-48389-7 on 25 July 1944 was wounded Lammerding with the inspection of the SS-tank regiment 2 in normandy. James Lucas. The realm. The Military Role OF the 2nd SS division. London 1991, P. 138. After ISBN0-304-35199-7 its Geneseung took over he again the command over the 2. SS-tank-division, until Himmler finally made it on 2 February 1945 the Chief of Staff of the "army group Weichsel".

After the war he was accused of the massacres in Oradour sur Glane and Tulle in June 1944 in France and condemned also to death; since the Federal Government did not deliver it however, it remained undisturbed. Also in Germany Lammerding was not pulled for its acts for responsibility. It died 1971 at cancer.