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Max Thomas

German holocaust perpetrator, physician and psychiatrist, lieutenant general of the police, head of the SD Rhine Upper Section and Einsatzgruppe C (1891-1945) · Germany · On the map · Doctors · Died at 54

Max Gereon Alexander Thomas was a German physician, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of police in Nazi Germany.

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1945Died6 December 19451944Bandit-warfare Badge in BronzeAward1943Clasp to the Iron Cross of 1914 1st ClassAward1942Clasp to the Iron Cross of 1914 2nd classAwardWound Badge (1939) in BlackAward1940War Merit Cross 2nd Class with SwordsAward1939SS Long Service Award 3rd ClassAwardSS Long Service Award 4th ClassAward1934Cross of Honour for Combatants, with SwordsAward1891Born4 August 1891

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Awards

Bandit-warfare Badge in Bronze1944

Clasp to the Iron Cross of 1914 1st Class1943

Wound Badge (1939) in Black1942

Clasp to the Iron Cross of 1914 2nd class1942

War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords1940

SS Long Service Award 4th Class1939

SS Long Service Award 3rd Class1939

Cross of Honour for Combatants, with Swords1934

Iron Cross 1st Class

Iron Cross 2nd Class

Military Merit Cross III. Class with War Decoration

Wound Badge (1918) in Black

SS Zivilabzeichen

SS-Ehrendegen

SS-Ehrenring

War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords

About this person

During the Second World War, he served as the commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Belgium and northern France and in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, where he also commanded Einsatzgruppe C. Implicated in Holocaust-related mass murders, he killed himself after the end of the war.

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Germany

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