Hans-Adolf Prützmann
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Hans-Adolf Prützmann was among the highest-ranking German SS officials during the Nazi era. From June 1941 to September 1944, he served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union, and from November 1943 was the Supreme SS and Police Leader in Ukraine.
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![The Riga Ghetto in 1942. Prützmann was responsible for setting up this ghetto. Most of its inhabitants were killed in the Rumbula massacre.[11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-N1212-326%2C_Riga%2C_Judenghetto.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-N1212-326%2C_Riga%2C_Judenghetto.jpg)
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Hans-Adolf Prützmann was among the highest-ranking German SS officials during the Nazi era. From June 1941 to September 1944, he served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union, and from November 1943 was the Supreme SS and Police Leader in Ukraine. He oversaw the activities of the Einsatzgruppen detachments that perpetrated the Holocaust in the Baltic States and Ukraine. After being captured at the end of the Second World War, he committed suicide.
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