Heinz Lammerding

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Heinz Lammerding
Born (1905-08-27)27 August 1905
Dortmund
Died 13 January 1971(1971-01-13) (aged 65)
Bad Tölz
Allegiance  Nazi Germany
Service/branch Waffen SS
Years of service 1933 – 1945
Rank Brigadeführer
Commands held
  • 2nd SS Division Das Reich
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Heinz Lammerding (born 27 August 1905, Dortmund, Germany – d. 13 January 1971, Bad Tölz, Germany) was a Brigadeführer (Brigadier General) in the Waffen-SS and a commander of 2. SS-Division Das Reich.

Post-war

In 1953, he was tried for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane and sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he wasn't extradited by West Germany.[1] He resumed his career as a civil engineer in Düsseldorf until his retirement and died of cancer at the age of sixty-six in 1971.

On the other hand, in the Afterword of "The hanging garden", Ian Rankin claims that the British were involved:

"General Lammerding was the commanding officer. On 9 June, he'd ordered the deaths of ninety-nine hostages in Tulle. He also gave the order for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. Later on in the war, Lammerding was captured by the British, who refused his extradition to France. Instead, he was returned to Düsseldorf, where he ran a successful company until his death in 1971."[2][3][4]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ Le maire d'Oradour-sur-Glane : « Il était dénué de toute humanité », Le Parisien, 14 August 2007 (French)
  2. ↑ the hanging garden, °1998 by Ian Rankin
  3. ↑ The "assassin of Oradour-sur-Glane" died at the age of 86, The World of 14 August 2007.
  4. ↑ L'"assassin d'Oradour-sur-Glane" est mort à l'âge de 86 ans, Le Monde (with AFP), 14 August 2007 (French)
Military offices
Preceded by
SS-Obergruppenführer Walter Krüger		 Commander of SS Division "Das Reich"
23 October 1943 - 24 July 1944 		Succeeded by
SS-Standartenführer Christian Tychsen
Preceded by
SS-Brigadeführer Otto Baum		 Commander of SS Division "Das Reich"
23 October 1944 - 20 January 1945 		Succeeded by
SS-Standartenführer Karl Kreutz
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