JOST Maria Karl Heinz (Jost)

Jost, Heinz Maria Charles (Jost), (1904-1951), Jost, Heinz Maria Charles (Jost), Oberfц?hrer SS, chief of External Information, TN. Section III external LEDs. In 1928 joined the NSDAP in 1934 - in SD. Carried out intelligence activities during the Spanish Civil War, and later organized the Einsatzgruppen in the territory of Czechoslovakia and Poland. After the head of the RSHA VI Administration - Foreign Intelligence Service of the SD ( "Ausland SD). In this post June 22, 1941 he was succeeded by Walter Schellenberg, and Yost was demoted and sent to the Eastern Front, a simple soldier, apparently because of the complex relationship between him and the Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller. Yost was one of the last war criminals hanged by the Americans in the Landsberg prison in 1951.