Otto Ohlendorf (Ohlendorf)

Ohlendorf, Otto (Ohlendorf), (1908-1951), a senior RSHA, Brigadenfuhrer SS. In his youth he studied economics, but left the University. After the RSHA (RSHA), headed by Ohlendorf III Management (SD - Inland), which monitored particularly important areas of the inner life of the Reich and the party. Once on the orders of Himmler organized four Einsatzgruppen for counter-insurgency operations in the occupied territory of the Soviet Union, one of them, "group D", led Ohlendorf. The Failed economist received the title Brigadefuhrer CC (Major General) and the appointment in the southern regions of Ukraine, which has conducted its activities in the rear of the 11 th Army. Only from June 1941 to July 1942 subordinate Ohlendorf Einsatzgruppen destroyed about 90 thousand. Jews. Then he quietly returned to the Wilhelmstrasse and took a civilian position in the Central Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, while leading the 3rd Division RSHA. By the end of the war he was replaced by Walter Schellenberg, who was touted as a minister in the allies want the future government Himmler.
.
. September 15, 1947 Ohlendorf brought before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in the groups accused of the punitive actions
. Among the other defendants (21 men, among whom there were 5 generals CC) Ohlendorf was found guilty of the destruction of 1 million. Jews. In his defense, he claimed that only following the orders of superiors on the destruction of the civilian population, citing the historical precedents, for example, the extermination of the Roma during the Thirty Years War. Ohlendorf said: "I never admitted to shooting carried out by specific people. I ordered several soldiers to shoot at the same time, to avoid direct personal responsibility. Other team leaders laid their victims on the ground face down and killed by a gunshot to the neck. I do not approve of such methods, because both the victim and to the artist executed it was a huge psychological burden ". Only later, said Ohlendorf, began to use gas chambers, housed at the same time from 15 to 20 people.

During the process of loving young woman sent bouquets of flowers into the cell Ohlendorf. Prosecutors also argued that the activities Ohlendorf is outside the normal understanding of the human mind. April 10, 1948 it, along with 13 other defendants, were sentenced to death. Of these, four - Ohlendorf and three head Einsatzgruppen - were executed on June 8, 1951.