Walter Huppenkothen

Role in the Holocaust Following the German invasion of Poland, Huppenkothen was involved in the Holocaust in various areas of occupied Poland (part of the Nazi-controlled General Government). He worked as a liaison with the SD's Einsatzgruppen during his time as part of the Gestapo, as well as an SD Chief in Kraków and as head of the Gestapo in Lublin in February 1940 . In July 1941, he was appointed to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin with the rank of Sturmbannführer (Major) in charge of a Gestapo unit dealing with political enemies of the Reich as the successor to Walter Schellenberg. A commemorative plaque for the prisoners executed, as well as a statue of Bonhoeffer, exists at the former site of the camp, now a memorial site. == Post-war ==

Collaboration with US military Huppenkothen was captured at Gmunden on 26 April 1945. Trials and testimonies From 1949–1956, Walter Huppenkothen was tried multiple times for torture and murder in his 8 April 1945 prosecution. For the charge(s) of murder, Huppenkothen was acquitted, but he was still sentenced to 7.5 years on charges of torture, although the acquittal of his murder charge(s) has continued to arouse criticism in modern times. Huppenkothen was released from prison in 1959. ==References==