Max Wielen

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Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen (b. March 3, 1883) was the Kripo police chief at Breslau. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Trials Commission but served only a few years of his sentence and was released October 24, 1952. . Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.

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Name	Wielen, Max
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Short description	German war criminal
Date of birth	March 3, 1883
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