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Otto Hofmann

Austrian-born German SS general, head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (1896-1982) · Germany · On the map · Politicians · Died at 86

Otto Hofmann was a German SS-Obergruppenführer in Nazi Germany who was the head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned.

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Sentenced to 25 years in prison at the RuSHA Trial in March 1948 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Hofmann was released in April 1954.

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Germany
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1896 to 1982 · aged 86