# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kurt-meyer
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:04:35.284Z

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name: "Kurt Meyer"
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description: "An SS commander convicted for ordering the murder of Canadian POWs in Normandy, later released and made into a spokesman for rewriting Waffen-SS history as apolitical soldiering."
tagline: "German general (1910-1961)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Kurt Meyer rose through the Waffen-SS during the Second World War, fighting in France and the Soviet Union before commanding the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend against the Allied invasion in 1944. During the war he ordered the mass murder of civilians and prisoners of war on multiple occasions. Tried after Germany's defeat, he was convicted for his role in the Ardenne Abbey massacre — the killing of Canadian POWs in Normandy — and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released in 1954. He joined HIAG, a lobby group of former high-ranking Waffen-SS officers, and became its most effective voice, promoting the false narrative that the Waffen-SS had been apolitical fighters uninvolved in Nazi atrocities. Historians have since dismantled those claims.