Kurt Meyer
German general (1910-1961) · Germany · Historical Figures · Died at 51
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Something wrong?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.
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Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Ludwig-006-19, Kurt Meyer
Alfred Lenge alias Alfred Lengenfeld
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1988-028-25A, Frankreich, Invasionsfront
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-099-06, Frankreich, Kurt Meyer, Fritz Witt, Max Wünsche
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Kurt Meyer at Stenopos battle
Kurt Meyer detained
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About this person
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.
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