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'''Herbert Martin Hagen''' (20 September 1913 – August 1999) was a German [[SS-Sturmbannführer]] of [[Nazi]] [[Germany]].<ref name="Seibel2010">{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Seibel|title=Macht und Moral: die "Endlösung der Judenfrage" in Frankreich, 1940-1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uthAAQAAIAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Konstanz University Press|language=German|isbn=978-3-86253-003-8|pages=379–|quote=Hagen, Herbert Martin (1913-1999) Von 1940 bis 1942 Leiter der Sipo/SD-Stelle Bordeaux ...}}</ref> Hagen served as personal assistant of the SS police chief in Paris [[Carl Oberg]] heading the Gestapo department. He was captured in 1945 but released in 1948. In 1955 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in France, after he was found guilty of being instrumental in the deportation of the Jews, nonetheless he managed to avoid going to prison and became a prominent West German industrialist. In 1980 after a change in the law to allow retrial of cases handled abroad, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a [[Cologne]] court, for his key role in the deportation 73,000 |
'''Herbert Martin Hagen''' (20 September 1913 – August 1999) was a German [[SS-Sturmbannführer]] of [[Nazi]] [[Germany]].<ref name="Seibel2010">{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Seibel|title=Macht und Moral: die "Endlösung der Judenfrage" in Frankreich, 1940-1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uthAAQAAIAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Konstanz University Press|language=German|isbn=978-3-86253-003-8|pages=379–|quote=Hagen, Herbert Martin (1913-1999) Von 1940 bis 1942 Leiter der Sipo/SD-Stelle Bordeaux ...}}</ref> Hagen served as personal assistant of the SS police chief in Paris [[Carl Oberg]] heading the Gestapo department. He was captured in 1945 but released in 1948. In 1955 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in France, after he was found guilty of being instrumental in the deportation of the Jews from France, nonetheless he managed to avoid going to prison and became a prominent West German industrialist. In 1980 after a change in the law to allow retrial of cases handled abroad, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a [[Cologne]] court, for his key role in the deportation of 73,000 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. He was released after serving only 4 years of prison, he died in [[Rüthen]] in 1999.<ref name="Wistrich 2013 p.158 ">{{cite book | last=Wistrich | first=R.S. | title=Who's Who in Nazi Germany | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Who's Who | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-136-41381-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nT-psA9fj_AC}}</ref> |
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.jpg) Herbert Hagen, on 1 May 1943 in Paris. | |
| Born | 20 September 1913 |
| Died | 1 August 1999 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | Nazi official |
| Motive | Nazism |
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Herbert Martin Hagen (20 September 1913 – August 1999) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer of Nazi Germany.[1] Hagen served as personal assistant of the SS police chief in Paris Carl Oberg heading the Gestapo department. He was captured in 1945 but released in 1948. In 1955 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in France, after he was found guilty of being instrumental in the deportation of the Jews from France, nonetheless he managed to avoid going to prison and became a prominent West German industrialist. In 1980 after a change in the law to allow retrial of cases handled abroad, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Cologne court, for his key role in the deportation of 73,000 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. He was released after serving only 4 years of prison, he died in Rüthen in 1999.[2]
Biography
Herbert Hagen was born on 20 September 1913, in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, he joined the SS in October 1933 in Kiel.
From 1940 Hagen held positions in the Security Police in France, based in Bordeaux he instituted measures to deport Jews; in December 1941, Hagen set up a concentration camp for Jews in Mérignac.[3] On 24 October 1941, in the Souges internment camp, Hagen was directly responsible for the execution by hanging of 50 hostages.[3] On May 5, 1942, Hagen, who had previously served as a Nazi police official in Poland, was appointed to the position of political assistant of Carl Oberg, who commanded the SS and police forces in France, overseeing anti-Jewish matters as well as security under SS-Obersturmburführer Helmut Knochen. Fluent in French, he was able to communicate Nazi demands directly to Vichy about the deportation of jews and the fight against the resistance.[3] In September 1944, he was transferred to Carinthia in Austria where he commanded an Einsatzkommando fighting antipartisan activities on the Yugoslav border.[3]
Capture, trials, sentence and death
On May 13, 1945, Hagen was captured by the British in Klagenfurt, he was handed by the British to the French occupation forces in November 1946 but was released on 4 March 1948. On 18 March 1955 he was sentenced in absentia to lifelong forced labor, by a military court in Paris, having been found guilty of being instrumental in the deportation of the Jews from France.[3] In 1980, he was sentenced in Cologne, West Germany, to twelve years imprisonment, for his complicity in the murder of thousands of people, the court learned that Hagen knew about the Nazi program to exterminate the Jews, was a central figure in its implementation and was heavily involved in the deportation of Jews from France.[a] It was concluded that during his period in command, 70,790 Jews were sent to concentration camps where at least 35,000 were killed in the gas chamber.[3]
Herbert Hagen served only four years of his twelve years sentence in prison before being set free,[5] he died on 7 August 1999, in Rüthen.[3]
Notes
- ^ two other former Paris Gestapo men were tried and sentenced at the same time: Kurt Lischka, Gestapo chief in Paris, who was sentenced to 10 years, and Ernst Heinrichsohn, who worked in the Gestapo's "Jewish affairs" department in Paris, sentenced to six years.[4]
References
- ^ Wolfgang Seibel (2010). Macht und Moral: die "Endlösung der Judenfrage" in Frankreich, 1940-1944 (in German). Konstanz University Press. pp. 379–. ISBN 978-3-86253-003-8.
Hagen, Herbert Martin (1913-1999) Von 1940 bis 1942 Leiter der Sipo/SD-Stelle Bordeaux ...
- ^ Wistrich, R.S. (2013). Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Who's Who. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-136-41381-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bartrop & Grimm 2019, pp. 123–124.
- ^ "West German Court Sentences 3 Who Sent Jews to Death Camps". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. 12 February 1980.
- ^ "AKENS Informationen 33/34, Paul: "Von Judenangelegenheiten hatte er bis dahin keine Ahnung."". AKENS (in German).
Sources
- Bartrop, P.R.; Grimm, E.E. (2019). Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-5897-0.
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